Official Nintendo Wii thread

It'll be robbery if this thing is over $200 at launch.

If it launches at $150 then Nintendo will make a killing. The other next gen systems have gone up in price since the last generation, and the choice between a $150 system and a $400 system is a pretty tempting one, assuming Nintendo manages to do with this what they've managed to do with the DS.

And if people want more powerful hardware at a premium price, the 360 and PS3 are there for you. Go nuts. There's no way Nintendo could ever compete on that front so they're making a cheap and different system instead (and I'm not going to argue "well maybe the architecture will make up for the specs and it'll look as good as the 360" because that ain't gonna happen). This is a good thing for gaming... instead of having three companies all trying to appeal to the exact same people we have some diversity in what's out there.

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Originally Posted by avatar

A rev devkit costs less than the GBA one. It's very likely the rev will be supported like the GBA becuase everything will be so dirt cheap.

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Dev kits, though, mean little in the end. If you think it will be cheaper to make a Revolution game than a GBA game you are crazy.

And I hope for Nintendos sake the Rev isnt supported like the GBA... that thing had possibly the worst third-party lineup ever.

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Originally Posted by sethsez

If it launches at $150 then Nintendo will make a killing. The other next gen systems have gone up in price since the last generation, and the choice between a $150 system and a $400 system is a pretty tempting one, assuming Nintendo manages to do with this what they've managed to do with the DS.

And if people want more powerful hardware at a premium price, the 360 and PS3 are there for you. Go nuts. There's no way Nintendo could ever compete on that front so they're making a cheap and different system instead (and I'm not going to argue "well maybe the architecture will make up for the specs and it'll look as good as the 360" because that ain't gonna happen). This is a good thing for gaming... instead of having three companies all trying to appeal to the exact same people we have some diversity in what's out there.

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Agreed. Alternatives are always good to have. We'll have two standard systens and one product specifically made for more unique content. It kind of reminds me of the WWF and WCW war with ECW as the alternative promotion.

It will be cheaper to make a Rev game in 2008 than it was to make a GBA game in 2001.

And yes, most of those third-party games sucked, but it didn't really matter, because Nintendo has, does, and always will make the best games.

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Originally Posted by burgundy

Nintendo has, does, and always will make the best games.

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False.

If it were true, I would own a GameCube.

The DS is what the Gamecube should have been. It's almost sad.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

False.

If it were true, I would own a GameCube.

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The unstated and very questionable premise in your argument is that you have a reliable concept of taste.

The Gamecube was home to Nintendo's overall weakest lineup for a system.

Irrelevant. Gamecube wasn't competing with other Nintendo systems.