The Nintendo Wii international press conferences thread

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Originally Posted by Beefy Hits

You'd need a lot of room for 4 people to swing their arms around playing tennis with those wiimotes.

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Is this that much of a problem in rural suburbia?? I can see this an issue here in NYC, but outside of that, space should not be a problem (unless you live in Japan).

Wii Sports is not worth $50 (from the impressions I've seen). It's a tech demo at best. Again, two sets of Wiimotes and nunchucks and the $250 would have been justified.

Wii console: $250
Zelda: $50
Wario Ware: $50
Monkey Ball: $50 ($60?)
Three more Wiimotes: $120

Grand Ass-rape Total: $520 (or $530 if Sega is being greedy)

Hmm, I'm starting to rethink getting a Wii at launch. Or at the very least, maybe I'll just get one more Wiimote.

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How could you be pissed Nintendo is packing in a game?

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It's a shit game I have no desire to play but am still paying for it?

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and people would have payed it

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Not me

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Originally Posted by RoleTroll

Japan should be paying more than us. With the 360 essentially non-existent, Nintendo could charge $300 or $400 there and it would still sell well against the PS3.

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I don't think they can do that, it is called dumping. I could be wrong though.

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Originally Posted by Brand X

How could you be pissed Nintendo is packing in a game? This is the first time since the 16-bit era that a company has included a pack-in game at launch.

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The Saturn launched with Virtua Fighter packed in. 360 Premium launched with Hexic HD packed in.

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Originally Posted by James

You know that the Wii Sports trade-in is going to be something like $25 - $30 on day one, right? Congrats, your console is not $225-ish.

James

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Use your head. Wii Sports is compulsory upon getting the system. How many people are gonna buy a game that they already have to get when they buy the system? Yea, thats right, nobody. How much is EB gonna give you on a game that nobody is gonna buy? Yea, that's right, nothing.

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Originally Posted by dakidski

edit. speaking of which, will the wavebird controller work on Wii?

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Yes.

If the golf and tennis in Wii Sports are solid, i don't care about anything else. I also want fishing in there.

Silly Sega saturn x, you'll get the Wii on launch and you'll have Chan-chan's Gureto Wuii Ah Pee Gee Aduvencho on day 1.

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Originally Posted by James

You know that the Wii Sports trade-in is going to be something like $25 - $30 on day one, right? Congrats, your console is not $225-ish.

James

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You know that every single person on Earth who owns a Wii will already have this game, thus making it literally impossible to sell, right? Congrats, you're going to get laughed at by an EB employee.

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Originally Posted by Sega saturn x

Not me

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Point being? There would still be hundreds of thousands of people that would be willing to pay that without a pack in. And the reality of the situation is, even if there wasn't a pack in game, Nintendo could have very well gotten away with charging $250 for the system, especially considering the inflation in prices of everything this generation.

While charging $250 without a pack in game, or 2 controllers for this system would be insanity (and gotten me not to purchase the system at launch), people would have paid it whether you would have or not.