EB Games reveal Wii U price

Cian · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 8:37 pm�� Post subject: EB Games reveal Wii U price

EB Games reveal Wii U price by Cian

PALGN News: A reasonable guesstimation.

Pagan's Mind · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 8:45 pm�� Post subject:

Isn't it a while off for pricing? The WiiU is probably 12 months or more away. I wouldn't put a pre-order down at EB at this time.

Benza · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:07 pm�� Post subject:

ouch.
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Bev · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:10 pm�� Post subject:

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Crank · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:13 pm�� Post subject:

Jarrod · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:30 pm�� Post subject:

Until Nintendo announce an official price, EB dont know shit, and have pulled this out of thin air.
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Guka-bot · Status: Offline Joined: 20 Sep 2008 Posts: 13 $poons: 3.60

EB just did it so that they can ride the hype and take pre-orders. They have obviously gone for a price on the high side to reduce the chance of EB having to honour a cheaper listing price when the Wii U's regular retail price is officially revealed.

RWS · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:19 pm�� Post subject:

I said this on vg247, I'll say it again here:

When the 3DS was announced, they had put a $500 price-tag on pre-orders, they were $150 off the actual price.
Let's just wait for the official price announcement first.

renegadesx · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 10:16 am�� Post subject:

Nintendo are not known for making expensive consoles. The machine itself would be rather cheap to make. Its tech is pretty much on par with the other HD consoles with some extra grunt which when it launches will be 7 years after the 360's launch.

The CPU will be faster, not hard to do. There will be more RAM (cutting down development costs and RAM is dirt cheap). The video card could raise the price but Im not expecting anything modern. The controller will be expensive no doubt.

The package though I expect about $400 for it to be able to compete with the 360 and PS3. The 3DS isnt selling that well partly due to a high price point for that audience, for that they need to cut price and release games before the Vita launches.
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ZNMS · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 12:32 pm�� Post subject:

That's an EB Games price for sure. Though you never know, that wireless touch screen controller could bump the price over the $500 mark. Still, I wouldn't buy one.
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Nietzsche · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 1:00 pm�� Post subject:

I'm guessing it will be 400, but that's going by specs. I have no idea how much the controller would cost.

RWS · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 2:56 pm�� Post subject:

sobriquet835 · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 3:26 pm�� Post subject:

Nintendo won't put such a high price on one of their consoles. They'd rather get more sales than make more off each sale, and since it's EB, that's likely a rip-off type price anyway.

Aussie XP · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 3:41 pm�� Post subject:

I don't believe that price at all, I would guess $400-$450, EB are just trying to rip people off, or just go for a high price so that they'd only have to lower it instead of raise it later.
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theory · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 3:44 pm�� Post subject:

Fetidchimp · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 3:59 pm�� Post subject:

yeah i was going to say, 600 would actually seem reasonable to me if it surpasses the other 2 in terms of grunt.

ps1 cost 800 when it came out....the pain, the pain of it all.
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Benza · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 4:02 pm�� Post subject:

theory · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 4:33 pm�� Post subject:

Wii to Wii-U is a massive leap, are you kidding me?
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Benza · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 4:47 pm�� Post subject:

That might mean something if we lived in a world where only Nintendo was making consoles.
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Appel · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 5:31 pm�� Post subject:

The Wii wasn't that massive a step up from the PS2 or XBox and the Wii-U most likely won't be that massive a step-up from 360's and PS3's.

They are going to have to price point it at a price that isn't too far from the two other consoles. I'm thinking between $500 and $600 sounds right (if not a little pricey). But I guess time will tell.

Maybe Nintendo will do an Apple and pretend they invented HD, advertise it as HD, and call it ND - Nintendo Vision. It works for Apple, claiming they introduced it to the market when all they did was market it to the technology savvy - i mean, hipsters.
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Lemmiwinks · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 5:56 pm�� Post subject:

$598 seems about right to me. I don't think it will be less than that.

theory · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 6:15 pm�� Post subject:

Benza · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 6:33 pm�� Post subject:

And I didn't buy the Wii at launch cause i thought it was a rip off at the price they were asking for what they were selling.

I mean we can argue back and forth weather it's a sustainable price and weather the Wii-u will be able to match the selling power of the Wii etc etc but really I wasn't trying to make any point about the greater success of the console or weather the price is marketable or what the fuck ever. I was just saying I rekon that's a bit steep considering that I own a PS3/360/Wii and have never paid over $500 bucks for a console, and I personnally wouldn't pay that much for it. Hell I wouldn't pay that much for s PS4 or a new X-box either.
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theory · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 6:58 pm�� Post subject:

^ You could have said all that to begin with instead of "ouch" - I thought you were calling the price outrageous for everyone or from a business point of view. I totally understand that it might be too expensive subjectively.
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Slipvayne21 · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:22 pm�� Post subject:

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