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osed125 on 21 June 2012

Nintendo will never release a console for $500, they learned their lesson with the 3DS, I expect a max price of $400 and that's pushing it too much, $300-$350 will be ideal



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Juma009 on 21 June 2012

Nintendo....Just take my money.



S.T.A.G.E. on 21 June 2012
UltimateUnknown said:
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.

Ultimate from Unknowntown.


The fact that  Nintendo is going for the core with a dated system is already risking them the gen. Nintendo should tread lightly when it comes to the core in price, look what it did to Sony.

 

S.T.A.G.E. from Amazingtown.



Cobretti2 on 21 June 2012

tell them to quote ebgames.com.au price

$600 AUD which is almost $600USD when converted. Now that will get their blood boiling haha.


I agree with most comments that Nintendo always gets bad mouthed. I was so dissapointed with the E3 show on a personal level as I wanted to see some starfox and a few more 3rd party games, however I might just pick up a WiiU at launch simple because of all the hate against it.



 

 

RedInker on 21 June 2012

No chance of it being priced at 500 bucks.

RedInker from Inkersville Red Town



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noname2200 on 21 June 2012

I think the bad genome soldier hit the nail on the head here.

Annonymous from 2200 Unnamed places



Slimebeast on 21 June 2012

Bad from Genometown hahaha



cyberninja45 on 21 June 2012

It will never cost $500us unless nintendo wants no one to buy there console. $300 - $350 will be the price range.


Cyber from 45th avenue Ninja-Town



My 3ds friendcode: 5413-0232-9676 (G-cyber)



lilbroex on 21 June 2012
mike_intellivision said:

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).

 

Mike from Morgantown

 


Your first guess was right. People love to jump behind negative news about Nintendo. Just look at the past few articles about the Wii U on this site, of the few that there are of course.

You would think a big new console that is pouring out information would get more/better coverage, but the only things that are getting covered are negative rumors anonymous claims of inferiority.



silicon on 21 June 2012
mike_intellivision said:

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).

 

Mike from Morgantown

 


First, people generally believe bad news. Bad news spreads quickly and people are generally more likely to believe it. This is just a phenomenom of humanity.

Secondly, why converting currency is worse than assuming it will be $100 cheaper?