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There won't be any price cuts for the Wii this holiday season. Nintendo is still anticipating a sell out and shortage of Wii consoles throughout the season. Microsoft recently announced a game bundle deal for Xbox 360 Premium and Elite consoles. Sony introduced a new PS3 40GB model overseas (we're still anticipating a US announcement of the PS3 40GB model). Nintendo remains firm with the Wii at a $249.99 MSRP with a simple one console configuration deal.
Sounds like it was a good thing that the Wii didn't include a harddrive or disc drive (DVD/HD-dvd/Blu-ray) from the beginning. It doesn't seem people are as nearly concerned about the internal guts or backwards compatibility on the Wii either. Nintendo's plan on keeping it simple and not taking such a big jump on the hardware complexities, while innovating interaction, has clearly paid off.
From George Harrison, senior vice president of marketing at Nintendo America: "We'll stay at $249 for the foreseeable future. We are still selling everything we can make," Harrison told Reuters in an interview.
Well, at least you know they are throwing in that Wii Remote sleeve (or 'Jacket') as a free bonus. That's the only new Wii SKU that seems to be showing up for now.
From Reuters
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A 23 year old Wii Fan
Written by Guest on 2007-10-15 23:33:27
Yeah you don't have to be a little kid to play Nintendo. Adults who grew up with the original NES, SNES, N64 etc continue to play Nintendo games.
I've had only 2 video game consoles in my home actually 1 was the N64 and the other now is the Nintendo Wii.
I'm glad the Wii is selling well. I was a fan of the original Play Station (PSOne) and the PS2 but am no fan of PS3 because it has Blu Ray which I don't need or want due to crippling copy protection technology it employs that is anti-consumer.
Sony stopped caring about the customer a long time ago now imposes DRM -- remember the Sony BMG music CDs infected with rootkits from 2005. Sony also uses DRM in Blu Ray and has added Blu Ray to PS3 to help adoption of Blu Ray -- PS3 has though been suffering although Blu Ray in itself still seems to be selling separately much better on its own.
As for XBox I've heard of the Red Ring of Death in the 360 which is the equivalent of getting a Windows Blue Screen of Death error.
Microsoft already controls PC gaming on the desktop why let another unethical company with such dominance extend that to consoles -- they are in this space because every new console sold = one less reason for a new computer running Windows to be purchased.
They also want to discourage companies not already in the market like HP, Dell and even Gateway along with a few others that depend on them for Windows from entering the market themselves.
I wouldn't trust Microsoft with my wallet. I don't even use Windows now unless I absolutely have to otherwise I use Mac OS X.
I also try to use open source software!
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Written by Guest on 2007-10-15 03:07:24
Seems like the same tired arguements that's made at each release of a system. If history is a judge then the system with the best games will win in the end. Noticed I said games not graphics. The Genisis came way form behind to take on the SNES on games alone. The Saturn had better graphics then the PS1. The XBox had better graphics then the PS2. The biggest indicator of how well a system will do is the Japanese market. The best games come from there. The are not going to make games for the 360. The Japanese market does not care about FPS. Until microsoft can move away from that genre they will never come out on top.
The Wii is not a 1990 machine in 2007. Maybe a mid 2000 machine but you are all missing the point. Who cares how the games look. Nintendo is not after your market. Its after the kids and the adults that grew up on the NES. There is an estimate of 28 million hardcore gamers in this country alone. That leaves roughly 200 million people to sell games to. People that hate having 14 buttons to remember. We don't care that bioshock looks awsome or halo is great. As long as it is complicated and a 13 year old kid is cursing out a 40 year old online it will never have mass market appeal. This is why the wii sells. I can play Wii Sports or Madden in easy play mode or even play Metroid Prime or resident evil without having to mash a bunch of buttons. I don't know how the PS3 will turn out in the end. My guess is the Japanese market will start developing games in 08 and the thing will take off. The 360 will top out at 30 million because it is making the same mistakes it did before. If you go to gamestop and look at the games its a rehash of the original XBox. All the good games are FPS. Hard to win that one when you are competing against the PC. | stop whining!
Written by Guest on 2007-10-14 09:04:58
wah, wah, wah, so you're a sony fanboy and not happy that your console is bringin up the rear. get over it. the tired argument about the wii this and the wii that is about as boring as the playstation 3's game library. | sure
Written by Guest on 2007-10-14 01:53:23
Yeah, that's why they've sold in 10 months what's taken Microsoft two years. It's all the 7-year-olds telling their friends and family, "Yeah, I got that Wii thing but now it's a doorstop. And the graphics are no better than the NES I had in 1990, 10 years before I was born." And all their friends and family go, "We want shiny white doorstops too! Because we are all 7 years old, even Grandma." And that's how Nintendo went from being almost out of the hardware business to being the second-largest company in Japan in less than 2 years... making doorstops.
As for the PS3, it's over. Ratchet and Clank won't save it any more than GTA saved the PSP. Neither will Final Fantasy. The PS3 is even deader than the Gamecube was a year after its release. Like the Gamecube, it has had and will continue to have some brilliant games on it. None of that will matter when the 360 is capable of the same results with lower development costs.... and being $200 less and a year early certainly hasn't hurt its sales.
I understand how traumatic it is when you realize you're backing the wrong horse and it's too late to back out. But Sony got arrogant just like Nintendo did in the 90's, and they're paying the price now.
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Written by Guest on 2007-10-14 01:49:06
No surprises... My guess... Wii will make nintendo a heap of money but will struggle a LOT next gen, xbox 360 will be either a negligable loss for Microsoft to a very small gain as a second stepping stone to the third xbox, and ps3 will take 2-4 years to become profitable but people will be very happy with it for a long time too.
X-factor: What will kids brought up on the wii want in a few years?
Will HD-DVD, Blu-Ray or Direct downloads get the next generation of movies?
In the end, the future of this "war" is funny but entertaining. I think Wii will maintain the lead for 3-4 years, to be taken over by the 360 for a year to be taken over by ps3 for the remainder of this generation... By a numbers perspective, xbox gain market share, PS3 losses it, and Nintendo makes money. | Wii are fed up
Written by Guest on 2007-10-13 20:08:19
Great purchase for about 5 mins, and then it makes an expensive door stop.
Why do you think processors have got faster graphics cards more powerful, and media storage larger - it's not rocket science. | people allways buy cheap bullshit
Written by Guest on 2007-10-13 19:55:52
It's a sad but true phenomenon that the majority only look at two things: Low price and quick fun. People don't calculate the cost a console will have during its entire lifecycle (although they should). The low price of wii does not impress me, neither the new controls which are quite good but don't interprete movement perfet enough. What truely does impress me is Nintendos ability to invent games that make fun. They know exactly about the learning curve of a player and how to entertain him while he progresses. On PS3 I hope Ratchet and Clank will be a game with perfect learning curve and entertainment - and graphics beyond wii's capability. As soon as developers have their development library for PS3 complete and can concentrate more on game play, games will come up that leave wii fans speechless. I think we are close to this point. Insomniac have developed Resistance, now they show Ratchet and Clank. Surely their experience with Resistance helped improve Ratchet and Clank - and future games will profit of both. On the other hand, some multi platform developers don't like PS3 because they are lazy to build a solid development library for it - well, they should not develop for consoles then, because a true console developers main ability is to adapt to the individual hardware. On the other hand UbiSoft shows, that multi platform games can be done on PS3. So let's wait until more and more developers have their libraries ready and the fun will begin on PS3. | but
Written by Guest on 2007-10-13 15:50:58
But it still sells like hotcakes. | x
Written by Guest on 2007-10-13 11:18:47
but the wii still is a 1990 machine in the year 2007 . great if your 7 years old and don't know any better. |
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