Wii Launch date and price announced!!!

[DESOLATER]

Thanks to Gamespot: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6157572.html

According to the New York Times the Wii will cost $250 and will be out on November 19th!!! with over 25 games available at launch, with first-party games costing $50; Web-surfing abilities, photo, and news channels reported as well.

I can't wait :grin:

[gsilver]

The Wii is no doubt a system that I will purchase upon launch.

I have been looking forward to the shifting in the gaming paradigm that it represents through its abandonment of the technological arms race in favor of actual innovation in the area of control. The fundamentals of the technology have been in place for a while (power glove, activator, eye toy... just to give an example of the evolution of the process, even if two out of three outright sucked :tongue2), but the accurate positioning provided by the wii-mote looks to be a very solid and well implemented innovation.

As for the actual pricing details, I think it's a bit high given the capabilities of the 360 (it's only $50 less than the core system)... but I'll still buy it.

Though I do think that they're charging too much for downloadable games. A similar pricing structure seems to work fairly well for the 360, so I suppose that I'm just in the wrong target audience.

[kapowza]

that's a pretty decent price I think!

[Xak]

The price isn't bad at all! I was going to get one fo these (or try to) on launce, but it's only launching in white... I wanted the black one, so I'm undecided. Coming with a wii remote ($39.99) and a nunchuk ($19.99) and a Wii Sports disc all for $250. - excellent

[slowpc]

I'm Happy with the price and the bundled game too, not that bad.

[Marira]

You know when the said the system was going to be not more than $250 i was really hoping that they didn't mean it was gona be cheaper 1 cent, i was really hoping for a $199.99 price tag. To be fair to nintendo though, its still a good price and they are throwing Wii sports in there for free, well maybe you could say for part of the price, in the future you might see better games packed in the box, not to say that Wii sports is a bad game, it could be fun.

Just watched the press con as well it was pretty sweet i really want a wii, nintendo has really gone out of the way, the ease of the Wii channels really sold me, can't wait to be watching Mii anime on the wii.

[xbinshacker]

Wii and Zelda is a must-have combo, hopefully the controls will work fine with the Wii-mote

[Himeko97]

White at launch? Umm... no. Gotta wait for Black. I am not gonna make the same mistake as I did with my DS Lite.

[Kraken]

Originally Posted by Marira You know when the said the system was going to be not more than $250 i was really hoping that they didn't mean it was gona be cheaper 1 cent, i was really hoping for a $199.99 price tag. To be fair to nintendo though, its still a good price and they are throwing Wii sports in there for free, well maybe you could say for part of the price, in the future you might see better games packed in the box, not to say that Wii sports is a bad game, it could be fun. Just watched the press con as well it was pretty sweet i really want a wii, nintendo has really gone out of the way, the ease of the Wii channels really sold me, can't wait to be watching Mii anime on the wii.

I was hoping for a lower price too. If M$ drops the 360 packages by 50$ they would really cut into Nintendos sales. However, at 250$, Nintendo is actually making money on the hardware as opposed to the huge losses M$ and Sony are taking on each system sold. The Xbox brand is expected to become profitable for the first time in mid 2008, the Wii brand will be profitable on November 19th.

[dawee]

long live gamespot... the wii is insane and fun