What if wii was 400 dollars?

[GoldenAgeHero]

do you think hype would've been downplayed? do you think its pricing advantage would've dissapeared? i honestly don't think nintendo's pricing advantage even matters, it didnt help them last gen nor with N64. so i dont think i would've mind the 400 dollar price tag. how about you?

 

[Galactus]

400 dollars for Wii would have been crazy beyond belief. I don't think I'm ready to pay that much even for PS3.

 

[Axid]

 

[Kalit]

Yea.. if it would have costed $400 it better had included a HD and better graphics. I think the $250 price tag is helping them insanely.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

The Wii shouldn't even be $250 if you ask me. $400 would be asking way too much, especially since it's launching next to the PS3 and the much more powerful and featured Xbox360 is the same price.

 

[DACrowe]

Why not $250? I personally think NO system is worth $500 or more and the good versions of both 360 and PS3 launched at that or higher! Both are overpriced rip offs and in Sony's case a cheap ploy to shove the Blue Ray down our throats.

I myself would've preferred $200 but $250 is reasonable....$300 is my very limit of reasonable, though I think it is overpriced at this point. Anything above $300 for a gaming console is a rip off.

If Wii was $400, I would not have bought one for at least a year then.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Who gives a **** about a "What if..."?

 

[jaydawg]

If it was $400, then it'd be even more graphically sexy.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

Why not $250? I personally think NO system is worth $500 or more and the good versions of both 360 and PS3 launched at that or higher! Both are overpriced rip offs and in Sony's case a cheap ploy to shove the Blue Ray down our throats.

I myself would've preferred $200 but $250 is reasonable....$300 is my very limit of reasonable, though I think it is overpriced at this point. Anything above $300 for a gaming console is a rip off.

If Wii was $400, I would not have bought one for at least a year then.

why would it be a ripoff? god forbid we make techonoligical advancement on both gameplay and graphics.

 

[DACrowe]

Because the number ain't worth it. The product is not worth spending close to a thousand dollars on. Gaming technology has not advanced that much. The difference between this generation and last are noticable but the jump is so small it was done for the arbitrary reason to make money by supplying a new console every 5 years or less. It ain't worth the dow to be ripped off by them making a console for $20 more than before and selling it for twice as much as the previous product. That would be considered a scam in most markets.

And don't bring up Blue-Ray. Sony is just trying to shove down their dying new DVD player which has already lost the war anyway and is facing the possibility that people aren't even ready to give up DVDs anyway though.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

Because the number ain't worth it. The product is not worth spending close to a thousand dollars on. Gaming technology has not advanced that much. The difference between this generation and last are noticable but the jump is so small it was done for the arbitrary reason to make money by supplying a new console every 5 years or less. It ain't worth the dow to be ripped off by them making a console for $20 more than before and selling it for twice as much as the previous product. That would be considered a scam in most markets.

And don't bring up Blue-Ray. Sony is just trying to shove down their dying new DVD player which has already lost the war anyway and is facing the possibility that people aren't even ready to give up DVDs anyway though.

i agree with that part. they should stop releasing consoles every 5 years or so. and expand to at least 7 years. i'll have to disagree you that the jump is small. you can a big difference between a ps2 game and a ps3 game. you just can't pass it off as small and irrelevant. i really don't see any scam. since both sony and microsoft are making consoles at a lost. they won't gain any profit till 3-4 years down the road.

 

[DACrowe]

The jump is noticeable (well more for the weakest graphic wise of last generation being PS2 and hte strongest being PS3 next generation) but it is small.

Look at the jump from SNES and Sega Genesis to Playstation and N64. Look how much smaller but still significant the jump was from those to PS2, Gamecube and especially Xbox.

My friend owns a Xbox 360 and I enjoy playing some games on it (I think Call of Duty 2 is amazing on it, so is Dead Rising and for pure visual appeal Fight Night Round 3) but it is so NOT WORTH $500 imo (what he paid for it). Unless it is a very stagey game like Fight Night or most sports games, the graphics at this point have to be sufficed to fit the gameplay. Sure this is early on and it will get more advanced, but while I see a difference between say Call of Duty 2 and most shooters in the Xbox, it seems rather small to me. Dead Rising actually looks worse to me than Resident Evil 4 did on the Gamecube (though that may have been a sacrifice to have such an interactive environment).

There is a jump, but it is not noticeable enough for my tastes. I think the technology change is so ridiculously small compared to SNES being pushed out by N64 or N64 essientially being pushed out by Xbox. These are more like upgrades than major graphic revolutions like before. Xbox 360 might as well be called Xbox 1.5 imo. PS3 might as well be called Xbox 360+ for that matter. Nintendo Wii is Xbox+ graphics wise, but at least while it is an insignificant graphical change, gameplay wise it may very well revolutionize controls as we know it. It is something new and different.

But for this change (which I think is far more drastic than the minor upgrades the 360 and PS3 are) I would NOT pay $500 or $600. They only cost about $20 more to make than Xboxs and PS2s, but they DOUBLE THEIR PRICES AT RETAIL? It is a RIP-OFF. If Nintendo had done the same thing I would have just waited for a good version of one of 'em to drop to $300 before I bought one.

I have better things to spend my money on than the same system with comparitvely (to previous generation changes) minor changes in graphical ouput. Just my opinion though.