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| Tweet Topic Started: May 25 2006, 01:24 PM (669 Views) | |
| Jocky | May 25 2006, 01:24 PM Post #1 |
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Nintendo has announced that the Wii will be priced no higher than $250 in the US and ¥25,000 ($220) in Japan. I'd expect £180 here then. The next gen war gets more interesting... |
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| Megadeth | May 25 2006, 02:44 PM Post #2 |
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Well I'll be having one of those then At £180 it will be worth owning just for Nintendos 1st party offerings. What kind of release date are we looking at for this? |
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| Juz | May 25 2006, 04:57 PM Post #3 |
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Hmmmn - somehow a £130 ish price break point would be almost tempting.......ARRRRGGH - what am I saying?????!!!? My Mum-in-law might bring her DS round this weekend (complete with Nintendogs), so I face even more Ninty exposure. |
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| Guest | May 25 2006, 05:34 PM Post #4 |
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Am SOLD, gimme the release date... |
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| Dom | May 25 2006, 05:35 PM Post #5 |
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thats me above :rolleyes: |
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| Zaichik | May 26 2006, 07:56 AM Post #6 |
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Up God's arse
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I'm only prepared to spend a penny...!
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| Jocky | May 26 2006, 11:07 AM Post #7 |
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Need to add on VAT and a little premium for the UK. £179 is probably a low enough price point to make me buy, even if it is just a dustcube with a weird controller. The thing is, now that Nintendo have embraced online play, I'm absolutely salivating at the ideas that they can come up with for it. Having said that, we can guarantee there will be very little to buy on it aside from 1st party stuff, unless it's hugely successful. |
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| Juz | May 26 2006, 04:30 PM Post #8 |
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Dunno why, but I've had a figure of £129.99 in my head for the Weevolution for ages now. Maybe I just imagined it, but I coulda sweared that's wot hearded guv'nor. |
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| Jocky | May 27 2006, 10:32 AM Post #9 |
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I hope so, really, I think the price is plausible, but I can't see it happening with a US price of $250 - the US has to add their state sales tax to the price, and we have to add VAT. |
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| Jocky | Sep 8 2006, 10:27 AM Post #10 |
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It's been a busy week in gaming... £130? £180? Both wrong, but looks like Juzzer was a bit closer... http://www.mcvuk.co.uk/newsitem.php?id=24356
Looks like Nintendo are taking full advantage of having cheapo hardware. £149 is ridiculously tempting, but I'm just not sure about the Wii controller. EDIT: Apologies, but this article appears to just be an educated guess at the price and launch dates rather than set in stone facts. Although we'll know within a week. |
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| Jocky | Sep 8 2006, 08:16 PM Post #11 |
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OK, it's 'definitely not right', according to the Nintendo UK boss. http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/nintendo/nint...rice-199405.php Key here is 'They're not far off, but they're definitely not right', so the price is either higher or lower IMO. I say £169. |
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| Jocky | Sep 14 2006, 04:30 PM Post #12 |
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$250 in US on Nov 19th. Includes 1 Wiimote, 1 Nunchuck and Wii Sports. NES titles will be $5, N64 $10, and SNES somewhere in between on 'Wii Channels' (the name for the virtual console). Japanese launch is Dec 9th I think, European announcement tomorrow. |
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| dunkle | Sep 14 2006, 04:49 PM Post #13 |
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Its got to be Nov for UK - Dec just seems TOO late for xmas |
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| Jocky | Sep 15 2006, 06:51 AM Post #14 |
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And it's region free. |
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| telecoda | Sep 15 2006, 07:33 AM Post #15 |
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And Jonathon Woss will be doing a wiially wiially exciting ad campaign. :rolleyes: |
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