Bad News on WiiU believed even when unbelieveable.

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mike_intellivision on 21 June 2012

http://loudmouthedgamers.com/blog/2012/06/20/rumor-wii-u-coming-in-december-to-500-price-point/

Essentially, this was a website running with the Amazon placeholder as news. It even got picked up by N4G: http://n4g.com/news/1022143/rumor-wii-u-coming-in-december-to-500-price-point

The original poster not spend the minute it would take to translate the text (which the update notes and a separate thread herein discusses) that clearly states that Nintendo has not provided the price. Instead, they went to a currency calcultor to find out how much euro400 is in USD ($504) and posted. The poster didn't even think that even if this were the price, it probably would be normalized (to USD $400) by Nintendo.

It just seems to me that people are more apt to speculate negatively about Nintendo ... or do I just notice it more since I am following Nintendo more closely this generation. (Or does it happen more to Nintendo because it plays things closer to the vest and thus without information, a vacuum must be filled).

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badgenome on 21 June 2012

mike_intellivision said:

(Or does it happen more to Nintendo because it plays things closer to the vest and thus without information, a vacuum must be filled).

This is the right answer.

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Troll_Whisperer on 21 June 2012

Wait... the WiiU will cost $500???

Nah, joking.

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UltimateUnknown on 21 June 2012

Yea no the Wii U isn't going to be priced at $500 unless Nintendo wants to lose the next gen before it even starts. They know what happened to Sony with the PS3.

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wfz on 21 June 2012

The industry as a whole has loved hating on Nintendo for over 10 years now. You get used to these things.

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Panama on 21 June 2012

"Wow! $425 WiiU Controller. The rest is worth $75."

Some of these comments are Comedy Gold. Also what's up with Sega's Nintendon't ads, I could just be paranoid but I think they're bad mouthing Nintendo. This is just how gaming journalism is in general.

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Conegamer on 21 June 2012

You just get used to it after a while.

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

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Plezbo on 21 June 2012

I have some bad news guys. Wii U will cost $600, but the good news is that the Gamepad now has a slot for SNES games.

Actually.... Screw it, I would pay $600 for that.

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kitler53 on 21 June 2012

badgenome said:

mike_intellivision said:

(Or does it happen more to Nintendo because it plays things closer to the vest and thus without information, a vacuum must be filled).

This is the right answer.

Bad from Genometown

i think agree. when there is no information provided the false information becomes more likely to be propigated. as nintendo makes real statements the rumors around that (like the only supporting 1 gamepad thing) simply go away.