Rumor:Wii U to be priced at $299

[heartgold]

Why does everyone think Wii U is just a Wii HD, obviously they are going to offer more than that to differentiate from competitors in the current market, whether it's through graphics capabilities, advance network, unique new gaming experience and Nintendo themselves have said that. we'll see at this years E3.

The problem is that we don't know. And if we look at what the 3DS was said to offer vs what it offered at launch, the apparent problem is quite easily visible. Every console has promised lots of things, but the time to get the system working may take a good while.

3DS launch has caused Nintendo a lot of problems, It'll be wise for Nintendo to avoid that at all costs.

If they ship a console again with missing features and crappy game launch, yeah good luck with that, any company to be honest.

 

[Bladexdsl]

Why does everyone think Wii U is just a Wii HD, obviously they are going to offer more than that to differentiate from competitors in the current market, whether it's through graphics capabilities, advance network, unique new gaming experience and Nintendo themselves have said that. we'll see at this years E3.

i only care about 1 thing:

SHOW ME THE GAMES

 

[Valwin]

welp that one nice price i hope is true ;.;

 

[KingVamp]

I'm glad this hasn't somehow became a frame war.
No, seriously.

I think even if it was a $100 more it would do alright,but this is a nice price.
I think anything past $400 is asking for trouble.

I hope it's region free, that way I can save $100 by buying it from America...

Knowing Nintendo, I really doubt the Wii U would be region free.

Price wise I think Japanese prices are too low and American prices are too high. My guess would be about ¥27,000/$269.99/€259/£249.

Well, I think it time to start spam emails for region free to Nintendo.

 

[Rock Raiyu]

I honestly can't believe this rumor, considering Reggie has already said that the Wii-U would be expensive.

I'd love to be proven wrong though. That just means less money out of my wallet when it gets games I want.

 

[Deleted User]

the next $ony and m$ consoles won't be that much different than they are now except maybe they'll be able to run games at full 60fps but that will be all everything else will be EXACTLY the same i guarantee it.

Not with that graphics card, It will do 1080p passive, but 60 FPS, Yeah no, The new Ps3 and Xbox will use 3 year old PC tech.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-6570-radeon-hd-6670-turks,2925-5.html

Xbox "3" will have a "6670like" chip

 

[BrunoAlvesMontei]

Nintendo will price the Wii U aggressively at $299 when it launches later this year, according to a report WiiUDaily has received (from the same source that brought us the Wii U system specs rumor). Nintendo will price the Wii U at $299 in the US, $299 Euro in Europe, and at 20,000 Yen in Japan, which comes in at around $250 USD. No word on Wii U software pricing.

Considering that the Wii U will initially only compete against the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, which can be had for $200 and $250, respectively, it’s not surprising that Nintendo will price the Wii U aggressively. They almost have to. Sony and Microsoft will reportedly release their next-gen consoles in 2013.

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Here in Brazil it will probably priced at $1.000,00
And i'll not do as i did with the 3DS, i'll wait at least 8 months before buying it

 

[Midna]

the next $ony and m$ consoles won't be that much different than they are now except maybe they'll be able to run games at full 60fps but that will be all everything else will be EXACTLY the same i guarantee it.

Not with that graphics card, It will do 1080p passive, but 60 FPS, Yeah no, The new Ps3 and Xbox will use 3 year old PC tech.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-6570-radeon-hd-6670-turks,2925-5.html


Xbox "3" will have a "6670like" chip

The more prevalent rumours regarding the Xbox 3 don't look encouraging. From a couple different sources, we seem to have it down as a family home media center with integration with Windows 8, included Kinect and a graphics chip that was crap when it was released several years ago

Maybe this is wrong, but if it isn't, I hope Sony has something up their sleeves.

That said this rumour is still bullshit.

 

[Deleted User]

the next $ony and m$ consoles won't be that much different than they are now except maybe they'll be able to run games at full 60fps but that will be all everything else will be EXACTLY the same i guarantee it.

Not with that graphics card, It will do 1080p passive, but 60 FPS, Yeah no, The new Ps3 and Xbox will use 3 year old PC tech.
http://www.tomshardw...rks,2925-5.html


Xbox "3" will have a "6670like" chip

The more prevalent rumours regarding the Xbox 3 don't look encouraging. From a couple different sources, we seem to have it down as a family home media center with integration with Windows 8, included Kinect and a graphics chip that was crap when it was released several years ago

Maybe this is wrong, but if it isn't, I hope Sony has something up their sleeves.

That said this rumour is still bullshit.

Still a home console will be behind a pc for years, there's just no way they can budget them to be cheap.

 

[miruki]

So uhm...


20 000 Yen = 185,253525 Euro
299 USD = 224.272427 Euro
299 Euro = 299 Euro........

... I mean, I'm used to it by now, since same thing goes for every other console's/handheld's/mobile phone's price as well, but why do European prices have to be so immensely high for electronical stuff? ;__;

 

[Qtis]

Still a home console will be behind a pc for years, there's just no way they can budget them to be cheap.

Still a home console can do quite a bit when the hardware is always the same and it doesn't have to run on all the thousands of different specs. But it is true that consoles usually have a bit out-dated hardware in general

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Still a home console can do quite a bit when the hardware is always the same and it doesn't have to run on all the thousands of different specs. But it is true that consoles usually have a bit out-dated hardware in general

Usually PC stuff runs better on the PC. It gets some shitty ports but it goes both ways.

Consoles are also made to be cheaper than PCs, which is why they're "behind on specs". A console sells at $400 (rough estimate) while a top-of-the-line PC rig breaks the $1000 mark. Plus consoles usually have to account for labor and production costs as well.

And while I would love to cross over to the PC market, I do find the streamlining of consoles to be rather attractive in some aspects.

 

[Hells Malice]

Still a home console will be behind a pc for years, there's just no way they can budget them to be cheap.

Not like home consoles NEED to keep up.
The PS3 runs some pretty gorgeous games (FF13?) with its "outdated hardware".
Consoles are more for simplicity sake than anything. In all my years using a console, not once have I gotten weird annoying errors that prevent me from playing a game. I don't need to update drivers, install random fixes, do workarounds, solve compatibility issues, etc. Plus they're cheap for what they offer.

I still prefer my PC since it's better overall and I can deal with the problems, but yeah. I do get the appeal of a console, since I used to be a console gamer till I got a good PC.

Even if consoles use "outdated" hardware, as long as they're more powerful then they are now, they'll do just fine next gen.

 

[WiiUBricker]

If the Wii U will be priced at $299, then as usual we europeans have to pay €299, which is a lot more than what americans have to pay

 

[pwsincd]

did anyone at all watch E3:2011 ? it does demostrate the wii U's capabilities and leading game makers show their dev too .. as for the price it will be a price the eager will pay then it'll drop as they always do.

 

[iFish]

This seems pretty reasonable. I mean, you have to assume the controller itself is already pretty expensive(If I had to guess, I'd say maybe $80?). But either way, as with everything, it drops down it price later in the lifespan and the Wii U will be no different.

I wouldn't hesitate buying it at this price point(But wouldn't unless it actually has games I want to play at said time)

 

[AlanJohn]

I like it how they always spare a penny and make it 299,99$ instead of 300$, it makes it look cheaper.

 

[Eerpow]

I like it how they always spare a penny and make it 299.99$ instead of 300$, it makes it look cheaper.

I wonder if it actually works?
Because for every 1.000.000 units sold they lose 10.000 bucks, when priced at $299.99 that is.
Maybe the amount of extra units sold to people who were actually fooled by this marketing strategy makes up for it?

I think they do it becuase it saves you some money on sales tax
and by some, I mean very very little

That's probably it, haha.

 

[BoxmanWTF]

I like it how they always spare a penny and make it 299,99$ instead of 300$, it makes it look cheaper.

I think they do it becuase it saves you some money on sales tax
and by some, I mean very very little

 

[RchUncleSkeleton]

For everyone trying to compare PC's to home consoles you seem to forget one insurmountable truth...They don't have to run a memory hog OS with a bunch of unneccessary background processes.

Not only that but hardware is coming to a crawl as far as advances in technology, there won't be leaps and bounds over the previous generation since the hardware isn't there to support it. Sure we will see updated graphics and smoother frame rates but nothing like the changes in previous generations.