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RazorDragon on 05 August 2013
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Soundwave said:
RazorDragon said:
It would be better regarded on the internet, but it only sold the way it did because of it's price. If it was comparable to the 360 and had motion controllers, it would easily cost $600 just like the PS3 cost when it released, and would struggle to sell to anyone.


I knew plenty of people who'd have paid $300+ for a Wii in 2006 or 2007 when the system was sold out everywhere.

Price wasn't that big of a deal, I remember seeing people load up on Wii's at $250 + Wii Fit at $99 like it was nothing.

The reason the PS3 cost $600 was because they forced Blu-Ray into the system.

PS3 was actually being sold at a loss at $600. Anyway, Nintendo, at the time, didn't had money to lose on any new console they released. Wii's motion controller wasn't cheap, and with comparable hardware to the 360, you could easily expect Nintendo pricing it at $600 to not lose any money on the console. $300/$350 is still fairly low and reasonable price for a new console, but step above $450 and I bet Wii wouldn't have sold nearly as much as it did during 2006/2007. If they lost money on each Wii sold, of course you could have a $450 console like the 360 when it released, but just like MS, Nintendo would've been losing a lot of money on it.