WaveBird: New Info And New Release Date

[Golgo 13]

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In a startling move this morning (coming on the heels of the Sony PS2 price cut), Nintendo has cut the price of it's standard controller to $24.95. Even more suprising, the wireless Wave Bird controller will launch at $34.95, five dollars cheaper than the originally announced price.

The Wave Bird will also now launch on June 10th ... 14 days earlier than expected.

Strangely, Nintendo is now understating the distance with which the Wave Bird can be used, from 10 meters (about 30 feet), to just 6 meters (20 feet). Considering Nintendo has demonstrated the controller working at much larger distances, this is confusing. Still, this is easily triple the distance of the regular controller.

The Wave Bird operates on two AA batteries, and will last over 100 hours.

[Cheebs]

100 hours of battery life = instant purchase for me.

[MechDeus]

Originally posted by Golgo 13
Strangely, Nintendo is now understating the distance with which the Wave Bird can be used, from 10 meters (about 30 feet), to just 6 meters (20 feet). Considering Nintendo has demonstrated the controller working at much larger distances, this is confusing. Still, this is easily triple the distance of the regular controller.

Probably just a safe distance for the offical packaging that will work for everyone with "distractions", instead of tossing out the maximum distance for bragging rights (you know, like when companies enjoy saying their system can do so many polygons, but it's always flat, uncolored, untextured, polygons in a non-environment, and Nintendo gives off the "safe" number of what their system can do).

[bandit]

ummmm posted this before you did..next time just double check to see if its already up that way we dont have 2 of the same threads..exceptable if its like 5+ days apart considering the post can be pushed back to page 10 or more..but this is today

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/s...&threadid=3050