Post by Steve Farrelly @ 10:29am 21/06/11 | 38 Comments
"We're very sensitive to pricing because people have generally only a certain amount of their spending that they'll devote to entertainment," he told GameSpot when asked about the unit's pricing plan. "And if you're talking about parents buying something for kids, there are certain price points where parents may be willing to or not willing to purchase a certain product.
"But at the same time," he continued. "You have these technological advances, and you have the needs of being able to take advantage of that technology, and those result in increasing costs and things like that."
In the past Nintendo has always been more precious and conscious of achievable prices for their home-consoles, often at the detriment to the system's performance, as seen in the decision to ship Wii with Standard Definition output during the HD revolution. Nintendo of Japan president, Sataru Iwata, recently told the Nekkei that Wii U would likely cost more than the Wii; over ¥20,000 (AU $235).
Meanwhile, Nintendo of America president, Reggie Fils-Aime, told Kotaku he felt the two lagging components of the 3DS' launch had finally been addressed in the handheld's lack of any big Nintendo franchises out of the gate, and its equally lacking online functionality.
"I think we've got that issue not only identified but addressed," he said in relation to Nintendo franchises, before adding to the online issue. "We've just done the first network update. We've got the eShop up and running. We've got the 3D movie service still on track for the summer. We've got Netflix still on track for the summer. So I think we're well underway to having that addressed as well."
Of course all of that's well and good for the US where Netflix is readily available, but here in Australia, we're still living in the movie digital delivery middle-ages. We've contacted Nintendo of Australia to find out what, if anything, we'll be getting as an Aussie equivalent, so stay tuned for more info.
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Posted 10:47am 21/6/11
Posted 10:47am 21/6/11
Posted 02:02pm 21/6/11
Posted 04:04pm 21/6/11
Great. So the Wii was gamecube 1.5, and now the Wii U is just gamecube 2.
Posted 04:47pm 21/6/11
Posted 05:07pm 21/6/11
Posted 05:12pm 21/6/11
Holys*** I just looked into Netflix. It looks like a sweet deal for the price, why do we get overpriced S*** like bigpond movies and the yanks get that sort of awesome for 8 bucks a month?
Posted 10:10am 22/6/11
Posted 10:14am 22/6/11
doesnt matter.
good games are not about how many shiny polygons you can move.
unless you are into flashy lucking substance games like GT5! (amirite pave!?)
Posted 10:14am 22/6/11
Posted 10:20am 22/6/11
I'm not saying I'M not going to get one, because I will, as I haven't owned a console since the PS2. But I was just thinking why anyone would get it if they say already had a PS3 or Xbox 360. You've already got most of the games that those third party developers have said they will release, and the only real new ones will be Nintendo's franchise.
Posted 10:45am 22/6/11
Also, anyone else suprised at how Reggie's name is pronounced? I don't think I'd ever heard it spoken before, until I watched the Nintendo press conference, I'd always said it as "Fills aim" but its "Feez a may"
Posted 11:22am 22/6/11
Posted 11:31am 22/6/11
But hardware is important whether you like high res games or not. The wii didn't have that many good games. Just a heap of really average ones and that heap wasn't all that big.
I always just called him Reggie, also he has a science degree and has worked for Guinness in marketing. Really odd.
Posted 11:32am 22/6/11
lacking substance except hours and hours of racing, lol
tell me some actually good games on the wii? proper gamer stuff not s*** like mario
unlike you davey, i have a wii and a ps3 and boy i struggled to find anything really good on the wii (apart from star wars, that was awesome). i can confirm that my wii, just like everyone else's i have ever spoken to about their wii (apart from pro-wii gamer dave) is tucked away in the cupboard.
so you get s*** games and no polygons - f*** yeah sign me up lols
just like to point out eorl, i won't be getting one
Posted 11:45am 22/6/11
Posted 11:55am 22/6/11
Even if the Wii U is only just as good as the PS3 and 360 (in terms of technical capabilities), it means a f***load of extra work is taken off the shoulders of developers, making it much more attractive for cross-platform titles. If it's noticeably more graphically advanced than the PS3 and 360, then it'll likely have the best-looking versions of many multi-platform titles, possibly even being lead-development SKU a lot of the time.
Posted 11:58am 22/6/11
Posted 01:08pm 22/6/11
res evil 4
nba jam
zelda
mario kart
monster hunter
super smash bros
metroid
golden eye
all of the lego games
donkey kong country
warioware smooth moves
wii sports (original)
no more heroes
tiger woods
off the top of my head ive played all of these to death.
ive got a heap more that i play casually, and i wont even mention all the games that spook jnr loves.
Posted 01:19pm 22/6/11
res evil 4 - ps3
nba jam - on ps3
zelda - lol
mario kart - double lol
monster hunter - is this super advanced like duck hunter?
super smash bros - lol
metroid - khel said it's good
golden eye - yeah ok that's not bad
all of the lego games - on ps3
donkey kong country - lol
warioware smooth moves - lol
wii sports (original) - probably the best game ever made for the wii
no more heroes - never heard of it
tiger woods
so a bunch of old nintendo games, rehashed nintendo IP
and a few games that are on both ps3 and xbox and therefore are better, not cut down versions
lol
last edited by paveway at 13:19:22 22/Jun/11
Posted 01:19pm 22/6/11
nintendo make awesome games, probably the best games ive ever played on any system (pc included)
i guess you just arent very good at games matey.
stick with gt5, its right up your alley! (rofls)
Posted 01:30pm 22/6/11
everyone else is wrong, you are right
the wii is the best console ever because it plays old nintendo games, how did everyone else miss this point lols
Posted 01:41pm 22/6/11
P.S rev4 is not a wii game, it's a gamecube game.
Sucks to be you because the new zelda is going to be awesome.
Posted 01:57pm 22/6/11
im sure nintendo wont be sad that pave is missing out.
really only pave will be sad (deep down sad, the kind of sad he doesnt tell people about)
Posted 02:29pm 22/6/11
Posted 02:34pm 22/6/11
you stick at it, mario cart will run even better on this next nintendo system!!
lols
i say LOL to them because they are just the same s***, they are casual gamer games. not really for core gamers
they aren't going to bring anyone new into the nintendo consoles that grew up playing other consoles
last edited by paveway at 14:34:15 22/Jun/11
Posted 02:48pm 22/6/11
is it because they dont have millions of polygons, therefore are for "hardcore" gamers?
nintendo games such as mariokarts, super mario galaxy and metroid have been favourites of hardcore gamers for years.
perhaps thats why you've never played them, because you were off playing mortal kombat and gran turismo 5
Posted 02:49pm 22/6/11
No, they're not going to bring over the 13 year old CoD kiddies who think anything without a gun is "gay," but they're not exactly the whole market. That also doesn't mean that the next Zelda game is going to be any less enjoyable, just because a selection of tea-bagging, trash-talking kids aren't going to beg their parents to buy it for them.
Having said that, I won't be surprised if a heap of them are going to be pining for a Wii U when it comes out.
Posted 02:57pm 22/6/11
Posted 03:03pm 22/6/11
the list of people i've spoken to with wii's that are not gathering dust keeps growing
sure there may be a small bunch of decent games, i never said their wasn't (hello, star wars). but by and large the proper Wii games has been very s*** for a very long time - khel the guy who has probably played more games to date than i will ever play in my whole life even agrees
i still have a look at the wii games when i walk into a game shop to see if there is anything... and it's just bleh nothing that stands out
i don't really care that you can play mario kart and s***, that's not the point of the argument
you can play mario kart on a n64....
the wii wasn't made for that, that is just a nice little add on by nintendo to scrape a bit of extra cash selling old games again - just like sony and microsoft do.
i'm not the only one that thinks this, spook is the only person on this forum that defends the wii like it's the ducks nuts
Posted 03:11pm 22/6/11
Posted 03:25pm 22/6/11
Posted 03:35pm 22/6/11
146m vs 58m and 50m respectively. 80m for the Wii.
Posted 06:08pm 22/6/11
Posted 06:08pm 22/6/11
Posted 08:14pm 22/6/11
i'm sure mario kart will be awesome on the next console lols
Posted 08:30pm 22/6/11
every incarnation of it has been super awesome, you've missed out not playing it.
Posted 08:31pm 22/6/11