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MARCUSDJACKSON on 24 December 2011
NintendoPie said:
spurgeonryan said:
NintendoPie said:
I like what Level1Death said, hahahahahah!


I will be one of the three.


 Well your lucky then. Because I doubt most people would pay above 500$ for a video game console including me, even though I am a gamer.

being a gamer doesn't mean you have to blow money on an over priced product. i'm so glad i'm a late adopter.



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FinalEvangelion on 24 December 2011

If true, it's going to bite them hard and would have learned nothing from the 3DS. Sound like the two jobs quote from Ken Kutaragi.



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thismeintiel on 24 December 2011
Seece said:
thismeintiel said:

Looks like some people were wrong when they said it wouldn't be over $300. I don't see them saying something like this if the price was going to be a mere $50 more than the Wii at launch. Maybe $100 more than the Wii would warrant this kind of talk, but considering how much the other HD consoles launched at, I'm guessing this is going to be more in line with $400.

Of course, if this is true, Nintendo will be making a big mistake. People who buy Nintendo (especially in recent history) buy them not only for their games, but also because of their pricing. They don't mind sacrificing power for a lower price. It seems next gen, though, they'll be be sacrificing power, without much back in the terms of price. I say this because I would imagine the NeXbox and PS4 are going to be launching for $400-$500, but with much more power compared to the Wii U.

Assumptions galore and an awful lot of insider knowledge you have there. Wii U is gonna be $400 and PS4/720 could be the same price yet vastly more powerful?

No need to be an ass just to be an ass.  It's speculation on what we already know or have have been told.  You know, something we do a lot here.  Even you. 

Nintendo has said twice now that this isn't going to be a cheap system.  There is no way they would say that if they are expecting to only sell it for $50 more than the Wii when it launched, as with the extra power and tablet controller, it would be a given that it would be more expensive.  Like I said, it being $100 more than the Wii could be a reason to say this, but given that the 360 and PS3 launched at an average price of ~$450, $350 doesn't seem so bad.  So, I'm predicting the Wii U will launch at $400. 

As for the PS4, Sony has already announced they will be keeping costs for it down below the PS3's.  This will most likely be accomplished by sticking with Blu-ray and using a CPU tech similar to the Cell.  I would imagine more money would go towards more RAM and a much better GPU.  So I can see the max price being ~$400-$500.  Epic already released a demo of what they feel next gen will look like and I have full confidence the PS4 will be able to pull off very similar graphics.  I would hope the NeXbox would be able to accomplish something close to them, as well, with a similar price point.



 

Mr Khan on 24 December 2011
o_O.Q said:
people seem to believe nintendo can launch a console with a controller with a touchscreen, microphone, sensor bar, camera, mic, etc built in and still price it low

relatively low, i'll still contend. The components in the U Pad are not particularly high-end (though that camera might be higher res than Nintendo's used to), i mean we know the touchscreen is of an inferior kind compared to the ones used by most smartphones, and the other components are not that much more sophisticated than a Wii remote, and tech costs (CPU/GPU) have, as always, dropped hard since the last generation

The only unique thing we're seeing here is perhaps the high-capacity wireless streaming technology they might be cooking up



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HappySqurriel on 24 December 2011

I'm willing to bet that the Wii U will be $299, with an additional Wii U tablet controller being priced at (roughly) $80 bundled with Wii U Play, and the games comming in at $60 ...

Essentially, everything will be more expensive than the Wii just not as much as some people seem to think



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HappySqurriel on 24 December 2011
o_O.Q said:
people seem to believe nintendo can launch a console with a controller with a touchscreen, microphone, sensor bar, camera, mic, etc built in and still price it low


People don't seem to understand that a more complicated device has been designed that will be sold as a "Tablet" in India for less than $40 ... With the manufacturer claiming that they're optimistic they can get the manufacturing cost below $10.



LordTheNightKnight on 24 December 2011
oniyide said:
If you cant afford the asking price for the system, then dont buy and wait for price drop, no need to get upset about it. If Ninty feels it should sell for 350-400 then thats what they will sell for, and thats not even that bad. THey did say it wouldnt be cheap


They shouldn't be making a system that costs that much even at launch. Even if it's not as much as the PS3, that at least was launched before the recession.

Doing this now is bordering on business suicide.



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Aprisaiden on 24 December 2011
Seece said:
thismeintiel said:

Looks like some people were wrong when they said it wouldn't be over $300. I don't see them saying something like this if the price was going to be a mere $50 more than the Wii at launch. Maybe $100 more than the Wii would warrant this kind of talk, but considering how much the other HD consoles launched at, I'm guessing this is going to be more in line with $400.

Of course, if this is true, Nintendo will be making a big mistake. People who buy Nintendo (especially in recent history) buy them not only for their games, but also because of their pricing. They don't mind sacrificing power for a lower price. It seems next gen, though, they'll be be sacrificing power, without much back in the terms of price. I say this because I would imagine the NeXbox and PS4 are going to be launching for $400-$500, but with much more power compared to the Wii U.

Assumptions galore and an awful lot of insider knowledge you have there. Wii U is gonna be $400 and PS4/720 could be the same price yet vastly more powerful?

Based off launch prices why not? 3DS vs. PS Vita -- Vita is vastly more powerful, yet both of them launched at $249.

Now it wouldn't surprise me to see Nintendo aim for the $350 - $400 range, i expect Microsoft to aim for the $400 mark given how successful the 360 has been and SONY will likely aim for the $400 mark since the $500/$600 price tag of the PS3 didn't over well at launch. 



Seece on 24 December 2011
thismeintiel said:
Seece said:
thismeintiel said:

Looks like some people were wrong when they said it wouldn't be over $300. I don't see them saying something like this if the price was going to be a mere $50 more than the Wii at launch. Maybe $100 more than the Wii would warrant this kind of talk, but considering how much the other HD consoles launched at, I'm guessing this is going to be more in line with $400.

Of course, if this is true, Nintendo will be making a big mistake. People who buy Nintendo (especially in recent history) buy them not only for their games, but also because of their pricing. They don't mind sacrificing power for a lower price. It seems next gen, though, they'll be be sacrificing power, without much back in the terms of price. I say this because I would imagine the NeXbox and PS4 are going to be launching for $400-$500, but with much more power compared to the Wii U.

Assumptions galore and an awful lot of insider knowledge you have there. Wii U is gonna be $400 and PS4/720 could be the same price yet vastly more powerful?

No need to be an ass just to be an ass.  It's speculation on what we already know or have have been told.  You know, something we do a lot here.  Even you. 

Nintendo has said twice now that this isn't going to be a cheap system.  There is no way they would say that if they are expecting to only sell it for $50 more than the Wii when it launched, as with the extra power and tablet controller, it would be a given that it would be more expensive.  Like I said, it being $100 more than the Wii could be a reason to say this, but given that the 360 and PS3 launched at an average price of ~$450, $350 doesn't seem so bad.  So, I'm predicting the Wii U will launch at $400. 

As for the PS4, Sony has already announced they will be keeping costs for it down below the PS3's.  This will most likely be accomplished by sticking with Blu-ray and using a CPU tech similar to the Cell.  I would imagine more money would go towards more RAM and a much better GPU.  So I can see the max price being ~$400-$500.  Epic already released a demo of what they feel next gen will look like and I have full confidence the PS4 will be able to pull off very similar graphics.  I would hope the NeXbox would be able to accomplish something close to them, as well, with a similar price point.

None of that answers why WiiU is going to launch at $400 along with PS4 launching at $400, but with PS4 having 'much more power'



 

oniyide on 24 December 2011
LordTheNightKnight said:
oniyide said:
If you cant afford the asking price for the system, then dont buy and wait for price drop, no need to get upset about it. If Ninty feels it should sell for 350-400 then thats what they will sell for, and thats not even that bad. THey did say it wouldnt be cheap


They shouldn't be making a system that costs that much even at launch. Even if it's not as much as the PS3, that at least was launched before the recession.

Doing this now is bordering on business suicide.

They want to make a more powerful product, they could do what they want, its a free market.  If people dont like it, then they dont have to buy it, its that simple.  Its not like most people here have any financial stock in Ninty anyway.  As a GAMER i am looking forward to what this thing can do.  I dont want a  Wii situation, where the damn thing was flooded with Just Dance and Wii Sports ripoffs, and 3rd parties couldnt put there good games on it because Ninty decided to cheap out on hardware. And I mean good games, not ones that had to be butchered to get it to work on the system. (looking at you Dead Rising and CODs)