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Will Wii U games cost $60?

Yes, Nintendo will embrace the HD tax. 51 40.48%
 
Not Nintendo, but 3rd par... 24 19.05%
 
Nope, Nintendo is going b... 6 4.76%
 
No. It will stay at $50. 32 25.40%
 
Not sure. 7 5.56%
 
Resultz 6 4.76%
 
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LinkVPit on 08 June 2012
RedInker said:
All the Game.co.uk Wii U game pre orders are priced at £49.99. Admitadly that doesnt mean too much yet.


Should look at ShopTo no games above £40.



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RedInker on 08 June 2012
LinkVPit said:
RedInker said:
All the Game.co.uk Wii U game pre orders are priced at £49.99. Admitadly that doesnt mean too much yet.


Should look at ShopTo no games above £40.

will do thanks for the tiip.



LinkVPit on 08 June 2012
RedInker said:
LinkVPit said:
RedInker said:
All the Game.co.uk Wii U game pre orders are priced at £49.99. Admitadly that doesnt mean too much yet.


Should look at ShopTo no games above £40.

will do thanks for the tiip.


Pre-ordered my console there as well! (Black of course) May be cheaper else where, but that is the only place taking pre-orders and I need my Wii U!!! i'm waiting on pre-ordering games until I know release dates. Launch windows are quite long!!!



RedInker on 08 June 2012
LinkVPit said:
RedInker said:
LinkVPit said:
RedInker said:
All the Game.co.uk Wii U game pre orders are priced at £49.99. Admitadly that doesnt mean too much yet.


Should look at ShopTo no games above £40.

will do thanks for the tiip.


Pre-ordered my console there as well! (Black of course) May be cheaper else where, but that is the only place taking pre-orders and I need my Wii U!!! i'm waiting on pre-ordering games until I know release dates. Launch windows are quite long!!!



Good choice in black lol. will keep an eye on this site.



TomaTito on 08 June 2012

Like I've said in other similar threads. I think the games will cost the same as Wii games. Remember that some third party Wii games were more expensive.



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Deoz on 08 June 2012

Hard to tell, nintendo having $50 games over thirdparty will give the later a bad look.
I think they will go with $60 at the end.



Cobretti2 on 08 June 2012
manuel said:
In Japan games will probably cost 5800 (73$) or 6800 Yen (86$).
Keep that in mind when you think 60$ is outrageously expensive...


yer AUS is like $60-70 for 3DS top games.

$100-$120 (for regular edition) PS3, 360 games @ EBGames. However in recent times, JBHIFI kind of sells them at like $89-$100 at launch,



 

 

Cobretti2 on 08 June 2012
wfz said:
I think we all need to keep in mind that if Nintendo charges a lower price for their epic first party games, third-party publishers are going to be extremely upset and likely jump ship because they can't (or don't want to) be as competitive in pricing. It will devalue their offerings.

It felt strange typing this out, as it's completely backwards to the regular ideals of competition in a market.


not just that, but people are expecting digital downloads to be much cheaper (they will most likely be $5 cheaper). This won't happen as retailers will get pissed off  and they won't distribute your product. They would ge tpissed off because it would be cutting into sales from those people who are on the fence between hardcopy and soft. $5 for mos tisn't much and they still would rather the hardcopy. $10 discount or mroe well they might consider the digital one. The balance between hard and digital will be one where those who want to go digital do so and not the fence sitters who want to save lots of money.

Maybe when we go fully digital downloads, games will remail at $50-$60 with ULTRA HD gfx lol.



 

 

WiiBox3 on 09 June 2012
Cobretti2 said:
manuel said:
In Japan games will probably cost 5800 (73$) or 6800 Yen (86$).
Keep that in mind when you think 60$ is outrageously expensive...


yer AUS is like $60-70 for 3DS top games.

$100-$120 (for regular edition) PS3, 360 games @ EBGames. However in recent times, JBHIFI kind of sells them at like $89-$100 at launch,


Why are games so expencive there? Import tarifs?



RedInker on 09 June 2012

All pre orders at game.co.uk are priced iniatially at £49.99 so 60 bucks sounds about right.