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Soundwave on 01 September 2016
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Miyamotoo said:
Soundwave said:

It sold on the motion gaming fad which was red hot for a few years, no need to over analyze it. Just like people were willing to pay $100 for Guitar Hero for a while and now you couldn't sell a Guitar Hero game for $20. 

Overpriced hardware is overpriced, regardless of if it sells of not. Nintendo probably also caught a break by Sony surprising everyone with the PS3 being $600 initially. That made the Wii look cheap, but if you actually break down what Nintendo was selling, Nintendo's never offered a piece of console hardware as low value for its time as the Wii was. 

It was literally an overclocked $99 system that they charged 2.5x more for because of a controller novelty. 

Again, Comparing to GC was overpriced, compared to competition was not, thats whole point.

Even compared to the competetion it was overpriced. An XBox 360 was $50 more for vastly, vastly better hardware.