Thread: How can Nintendo justify the price of the Wii?

Originally Posted by mr popo

Yes, just as Microsoft fanboys bought XBOX to play Halo and only Halo
And also the way how the same PS2-playing Sony fans now insist that processing power, graphics, framerate, etc. are superior to gameplay.

Not true
Many people bought XBOX because it was the most powerful system, however after we bought it we realized all the games sucked! Until Halo and Ninja Gaiden and stuff started coming out

Also PS2 and GC has more fanboys then XBOX
GC fanboys = Retro fanboys, hey if you stick to mario ever since the original NES, youre a fanboy
PS2 = endless amounts of fanboys, man i remember the discussion where i kept saying to everyone that ps3 would cost around 600, all the fanboys were like "zomg not tru yu da gay it cost 200$, les thn ripoff M$ xbox360 which is suxxor"

The games on the original Xbox didn't suck.
Fable is good, Jade Empire too and so are the Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia series which looked and played best on the Xbox (ignoring PC for now).

PS3 wins due to one reason. Final Fantasy XIII. Besides, I've no taste for American games("XBOX"). Let Americans play American titles, I'll stick to Asian ones.

This thead isn't about the PS3.
Stay on topic.

Okay, fine. Nintendo's winning formula is tradition afterall, bringing back their old titles like Metroid, Mario, Pokemon, Zelda, etc., over and over and over again. But hey, it works, especially in Japan. I know a lot of people who didn't care about the price, just as long as they can get the latest copy of Zelda. As for Xbox 360, it's way too hyped. What's the point of having so much processing capacity if you can't even utilize it to it's full potential?

Originally Posted by aallx

Okay, fine. Nintendo's winning formula is tradition afterall, bringing back their old titles like Metroid, Mario, Pokemon, Zelda, etc., over and over and over again. But hey, it works, especially in Japan. I know a lot of people who didn't care about the price, just as long as they can get the latest copy of Zelda. As for Xbox 360, it's way too hyped. What's the point of having so much processing capacity if you can't even utilize it to it's full potential?

Yet the 360 is still surprising many people and delivering good stuff.

I'm not a Nintendo fanboy at all, I've never owned any of their consoles, and been exclusivly a PS1/2 man so far, however the Wii just looks better than the competition to me so far. I have very little interest in the 360, and the PS3 is just too expensive for me to even consider, so I'll definatly be picking up a Wii.

The price doesn't really bother me at all, its way cheaper than the competition, and I play games for fun, not to look at pretty pictures, and for me at least, the games I've seen on the Wii look more fun than either of the other consoles.

Lets see
I want Super Smash Brawl

Brawl needs 4 controllers
that would be, hmm, 200$(with tax and my laziness to say 180 counted in) in extra controllers...

and yes Xbox had great games, but at the start they had like 2 great games, Morrowind and one other, after a few years of xbox bashing came the streams of great games like the ones you listed

Originally Posted by Sagara

The price doesn't really bother me at all, its way cheaper than the competition, and I play games for fun, not to look at pretty pictures, and for me at least, the games I've seen on the Wii look more fun than either of the other consoles.

Way cheaper?
That's where you are wrong.


Ever played GRAW online? Damn, that's some massive fun right there.

I'm not really a FPS fan, the only games that really interest me for the 360 are Dead Rising and Trusty Bell (or whatever the US version is called now), and I probably would buy one if I could spare the cash, but I'm preparing to go to Uni atm, so my DS and Wii savings pretty much blow my gaming budget. That and I'm still using a 1.4 ghz computer with a G4 Ti4200, which needs to be upgraded pretty badly too, lol.