$250, November 19 in North America. The big surprise: a real pack-in game, Wii Sports, which includes bowling, baseball, tennis and golf. 25-30 games should be available this year, including Zelda, but no Mario until next year.
Nintendo may end up winning this round of the console war. Sony’s priced themselves out of the market with the PS3 and Microsoft is targeting a different market with the Xbox 360.
I heard about this earlier today and am very happy with the news. I was crossing my fingers for a $200 launch but $250 isn’t bad, especially with Wii Sports included. It’s plenty affordable now and should be even more so by maybe mid-2007, when I’ll probably be finished fawing over my new PS2 and many anticipated games will have come out. Huzzah!
Now we just have to see how badly Australia gets screwed by the currency conversion.
That’s so cool. I want to play with one first and see if I like the controller scheme, but $250 gives a new system a lot of leeway for me. A $250 intro price makes a $199 after hype price totally realistic, and then maybe even a $149 move after that.
Looks like I’ll be picking one up at launch, probably with Zelda and an extra controller. I work that out to be $360 US, which is actually a fair bit, but nowhere near a PS3 obviously.
Also I was reading today on IGN that they have the controls right on Metroid. First person controls on consoles have always felt like a hack to me, so it’ll be great if the new control works like they’re saying.
I haven’t had a nintendo product since the super nintendo and even then only a handful of games I rarely played. Looks like there’s been a lot of fun games out, mario series and the like. I may look back into them with this new one.
Was planning on getting one when the rumored price was $200 and I’m still planning on it. Assuming that the included game is any good, I’m happy to pay $50 for a golf/bowling/tennis/baseball game.
What I really want to know is how expensive the extra controllers are going to be. That’s probably going to set me back another $100 by itself.
For me, it went from “Must by this holiday season” to “Maybe buy this holiday season.” I still like it, but factoring in the cost of an additional controller pair and another game puts it up to $360 or thereabouts. I might just wait until next year and the inevitable price drop, especially since I’m slightly iffy on some of the launch titles right now.
(On the other hand, playing SNES StarFox for $8 is a steal, IMO :D)
This is just anecdotal, but I’ve noticed that the poll responses on Gamefaqs usually have a pro-Nintendo response, so the results may just be the result of a unrepresentative sample. Specifically, I recall a poll asking which consoles people owned and the Gamecube was by far the favorite, which is not in line with console sales.
Ive been anticipating the Wii for so long. Usually my brothers and friends buy all the gaming systems around my household, but for once, I feel like i want to buy Wii right when it comes out. Wii has all the features I want (super innovative, classic gaming capabilities, mario games) and none of the features I dont want (HD support, dvd, expensiveness)
I hope the controllers don’t cost that much. Being thats its the whole wireless business, it may be more pricey then many of us might expect.
Am I the only one worried that swinging the controller around might start to get a little old after a couple of hours? I mean I’m sure it’s light and everything, but still swinging your arm to return every single volley while playing tennis is going to have to get a little tiring after a while?
Also, how is it going to work. If you slash right, you’re going to need to bring your “wiimote” back to center. Is this going to register as a slash left?
By all accounts it’s a fantastic system (and I put my name on the call list at EBGames) but I still have unanswered questions.
You don’t need to swing your whole arm around like a maniac. You can flick it in the direction you’d like to point it, but then it’s not really like playing baseball!
There’s a sensor bar that you place near the TV. It registers the movement of the remote, so moving “back to center” isn’t the same as “swing left” because it knows that the remote was facing to the right after you slashed right.
Until you factor in the cost of an additional 360 controller as well, then we’re back at square one. In addition, the Wii comes with built-in internal memory, whereas the $299 Xbox 360 does not, which one would require to save games. And finally, if reports are to be believed, the Wii will ship with component cables, unlike the $299 Xbox.
Plus it comes with that free packin game. Wii is still significantly cheaper than the other systems.
Yeah, you’re probably right. I haven’t read enough polls to notice a pattern. I still find it interesting though, because I would have expected the Sony fanboys to show up as well.
