No more than $250 sounds good. Not exactly impulse buy cheap, but pretty cheap none the less.

Well that's a bit of a dissapointment, I was hoping it would sell for $200.00, since Nintendo said they were trying to appeal to everyone, and not just gamers. I don't think as many non-gamers will buy it at $250.00 since the wii is hardly as strong as the PS3 or 360, and just because it has a new controller won't mean everything...
(And I'm the one to say this, I'm a Nintendo fan!)

Well, it is certainly alot cheaper then the other 2. Sounds promising indeed. When was the release date of the Wii? Or isn't it known yet.

Anyway, good news, makes buying a Wii certainly more attractive.

Well it could still be set a bit lower (but probably not). Just not above $250. But eventually the price will drop a bit as well, just like the other consoles.

That's exactly...

£133.654103

...to the UK'ers here.


Dude, you're not willing to fork out at least another $50 from what you wanted to pay for it in the first place? Being a supposed Nintendo fan means you like everything they do, saying that makes you a none nintendo fan, either way.

The PS3 will obviously cost more... I think it was around 700 US dollars (£400), considering it's not JUST a games console.

I'm pretty happy with the price, it would only take me around 5 weeks to save up my EMA to get it. But if I include my work salary, it would only take me less than 3 weeks. xP

Thank you Winnie I really wanted to know what this would be in £s and it always sounds so much in $s but £133 (approx, it'll probably be £150 or something like that) is damned cheap for a launch price! The PS2 was far more expensive than that at launch so I'm pretty happy with that.

Off Topic: You get EMA too Winnie! I love that stuff... it's a shame I always miss out on it for one reason or another. 5 Weeks of saving isn't so bad at all... especially if we get a bonus that way I can get some games with it as well.

Hm. I'll have to save for this. I'll need to get a job first though. Extra $50 or no extra $50, I still can't afford it as is. ^^;
Really, I don't mind the price spike (if you can call it that) at all though. Like I said, either way I can't afford it now, and it's still less expensive than the PS2 was at launch and worlds cheaper than the PS3 and 360.


Please explain your backwards ass logic. Non-gamers don't give two shits about system power and the new controller is what's supposed to appeal to non-gamers. You have just succeeded in making no sense.

lol, I'm pretty sure nintendo would sell more if they lowered their prices, i'm not complaining about it being 2.50, by all means i would even buy it at 300, and yes non-gamers dont care about graphics, but im talknig about worth here. ok nevemind then, this would lead to another arguemnet so ill stop here (guess i should stop starting arguements lol)

It will launch at $199.99

¥25,000 is $225, for starters. Also, every Nintendo system of the past has launched at $200 / ¥25,000.

Just by saying it will be less than $250, doesn't mean it will be $250. $200 is less than $250.
It hasn't been confirmed as $250.

$199.99 is the sweet spot, $249.99 seems like too much, unless you get 2 controllers and a game bundled in, but I can't see it going for more than $199.99, considering the NES, SNES, N64 and Gamecube all launched at that price. They might do what they did with DS, launch higher, at $250, before christmas, then lower it to $200 after. *shrugs*

Winnie, Flame, expect it to be £150 anyway, sounds about right, dont you think.

I'll pay two dollars and fifty cents.

Well I'm not surprised at this price. With the technology they're using in the system, we all knew it was going to be a cheapie.

Now what would be really cool is if they'd charge like 20 bucks for their games to go along with such a reasonable console price.

Hey Erd, Non gamers don't give a ##### about gaming consoles, so why would a new game consoles controller make them give a #####?

I think you should keep your fanboyism down.

They do give a ##### (for the most part) about what makes them go "Ooooh" "Aaaaah" and what's "in fashion".

Thus I think "non-gamers" will go for the PS3 or 360 on the sole fact that it's a "trendier" thing.

The wii looks "sexiest" next to the sleek designs of most dvd players and such, and it has the popular "apple design", so it succeeds there. Its easiest to center up, its easiest to display, and easiest to purchase, of course.

The controller is going to deliver a product that looks more "Fun", as its not quite a controller. Its more or less the games they plan on delivering, things that look fun to play. I guess thats the best way to put it.

Someone could follow me up on this, cause I'm doing a pretty piss poor job at it myself. Lets just say, Non gamers, the people who aren't interested in games in the least, the ones who bought a DS simply for Nintendogs and the touch screen, are what nintendo plan on targeting. They also plan on expanding that userbase. That make sense?

Lmfao I only have one payment and my bonus left of my EMA then I'm too old!!!!! £150 bonus will do menicely though

I have to admit This is rpetty damn cheap, if we get a game with that for £150, that would be pretty sorted, I can't criticise that at all. I likely won't ge tone anyway but Its nice to know if i feel like gonig crazy the day of my bonus, I can

"The wii looks "sexiest" next to the sleek designs of most dvd players and such, and it has the popular "apple design", so it succeeds there. Its easiest to center up, its easiest to display, and easiest to purchase, of course."

And then people realised Apple suck, which is why regardles sof their Ipod success, they're stil lgonig to have to start selling apples with microsoft OS soon to make ends meet ( read an article on it a few weeks ago). I jsut find that example interesting since thats exactly the logic that causes alot of people to waste their money. "ooooh look at the pretty case of that apple". That didn't make the computer work better.

Anyway, unrelated to that, I have to admit I agree with Reaver here, people like Sony and Microsoft have an extremely good name amongst the non-gamer population compared to Nintendo; that doesn't mean they necessarily have the edge, but tis the facts.

I think non-gamers get more wow-ed by pretty graphics than the actual game, since well.... they are non gamers.

And I heard that the Wii should launch along with a game, so that would justify the price even more.

Dude, even without a game, $250 is still a justified and very nice price for their next system. I could easily save up the money to get one myself in the future. I was actually a bit surprised that Nintendo could sell their next system that cheap.

250$? That's not a bad price at all. If it's lower to 200$, then even better. A extra 50$ is not that huge of a deal. Though, I might wait to pick up the system until Smash Brothers: Brawl is released. Unless there's a game released that I want upon the Wii release.

It would be good idea if the Wii is released with a game, but what game would it be released with? I remember hearing it's going to be released with Smash Brothers: Brawl, but Smash Brothers: Brawl won't be released on the Wii release?

Something like the Wii, 2 Wii remotes and Wii Sports seems like a likely bundle, and at $250 they'd shift like crazy.

$250 is only $50 less than the Core 360, I think they need to have a price with a bigger difference than that. As a bundle $250 is fine, but I think just the console, the Wii remote and the nunchuck, will go for $200.

Smash Bros would have been a good pack in title. I think Wii Sports is a more likely candidate for a pack in, even if Brawl was ready for launch, as it's a game anyone can play.

Considering the fact that you have to spend $100 for the 20GB hardrive that the core system doesn't come with, the price difference seems a bit bigger now.

Talking about memory cards though, I just started to wonder about this now, what will the Wii use to save data? Will we have to buy memory cards, or will there be internal memory?

I'm completely satisfied with that price.

Won't get any complaints out of me, not for 250.

I'll probably wait for a price drop, too.

You don't have to buy the hard drive to play games and junk. It's completely optional, $300 is how much a 360 costs.



The Wii has 512mb of onboard flash memory for such things, aswell as SD memory card slots. The USB ports can be used to save data to any USB device, harddrive, pen drive, etc etc.

Hiku, you should change the title of this topic, it's misleading. It hasn't been confirmed in any way, shape, or form, as $250.

Um, it hasn't? Maybe I missed a few posts in this thread but I was really pleased with that price being so cheap. I think I'm missing something...

Okay, did you forget the hardware specs or something?

QUOTE (The Evil Dead @ May 28 2006, 03:20 AM)

QUOTE (Vilagen @ May 27 2006, 09:29 AM)

I was actually a bit surprised that Nintendo could sell their next system that cheap.

Okay, did you forget the hardware specs or something?

err...It may not have some super ultra mega alpha-tech megatron deluxe dual XLR 3900 ST1250 processors, or the abuility to launch tactical nukes at France like the PS3, but..I'd think they could sell something with more than doubled GC specs for more than 200 either way man. It could easily be somewhat more expensive and still be called a fair price for what it is.

You think huh? How do you figure?

Nintendo confirmed it will be no more than $250. That doesn't mean it will be $250.



If anything the main costs would be stuff like the built in wifi, the bluetooth, and the Wii controller itself. The hardware is comprable to Xbox, so not that expensive. They sell for like $100-$130? Still, I cant see these features pushing the cost up to $250.

Exactly... And I don't see it being any more than 250 either. Ninty has gone cost effective so everyone can grab themselves a Wii without having to dish out their Jr High life savings for the likes of a PS3, or even the moderately priced 360. Not only that but they're going to release it at a cost to where they are making a profit off the system itself. They're not going to be eating the production cost like Sony and Microsoft have been.

QUOTE (The Hero of Time @ May 28 2006, 03:54 AM)

The hardware is comprable to Xbox, so not that expensive. They sell for like $100-$130? Still, I cant see these features pushing the cost up to $250.

New X-Box's are still at $150, not 100 or 130. And you're also comparing the Wii's launch price to X-Box's price after it's drop (the original being what, $300 or so?). But even so, Wii's hardware plus those features aren't enough to jump $100 over X-Box price? I'd have thought so, but ok. In any case I'm glad it is that low, whether it should be or not.

Well, the price for the Xbox is lower now than then, because the cost of manufacturing the hardware has gone down. If the hardware of the Wii is comprable in power, it should cost about the same as it cost to make an Xbox now, not what it did back when it was top spec.

On one hand it might be a bit more, even though it's comprable in power, its still new technology. One the other hand, it's an extension of the Gamecube hardware, which Nintendo sell at $80 and still make a profit.

The Wii doesn't contain a hard drive like the Xbox, that should save money. I dont see the price of Wifi, Bluetooth and the controller pushing the system up to $250.

I think they are also waiting to see what Microsoft do, if they lower the 360 from $300/400 to $200/300, that would be troublesome.

Well I guess that makes a fair amount of sense, though I dunno how close the Wii's hardware to X-Box's actually is. But anyway, in the end I'm glad the Wii wasn't made as powerful as PS3. Especially since I'm not sure exactly where all that excess power is going to be used other than visuals. And after the jump from 2D to 3D, graphics really meant little to nothing to me anyway...Especially not enough to pay much extra money for. Which Wii's look well enough anyway, so yeah. If Wii manages to build a successful library of games it'll definitely be my choice system of the 3. I don't need much more advancement in console specs, I just want more games. I'm sold either way because of SSBB, though. XD

Yeah and that's in the article, as well as in my post.
I didn't put "will sell for 250 down to the penny" I put "250" as the topic description because its the number we discuss, and the only exact figure they gave. Everyone in this topic seems to know that.

Change it if you want though.


Microsoft recently said that they have no plans on a price drop, in spite of the PS3 and Wii.

Yea I don't think that the PS3 launch games are any threat towards the current Xbox 360 library(or any second gen games coming out this season) so Microsoft is not to worried about that. When the big Games come out for PS3 is when the price will likley drop or new Bundles will be released(maybe a $400 Xbox 360 premium with an HD-DVD drive or bigger hardrive). I believe that for the Wii to be noticed by the kids and casual market ,which is what I believe they are mostly going for, they need to release for $200. $250 is just too close to the core Xbox 360.

Well that's good news to me. I am really looking forward to the Wii as of now after seeing some of the games coming out for it. (The new Mario game and SSB are two that catch my eye) $250 sounds like a fair price to me. I mean it is the cheapest out these three next gen consoles. 250 is still steep, but I think it will be well worth it.

i like that price (and i didnt know it was coming with bluetooth!)
i probably will have to be forced to wait for the price drop because im poor lol
anyway it looks good!

250 is still steep? Quit gaming, you won't afford life.

This price was expected if you look at the specs. I don't rememeber what they are, only something like double the GCs.

It's comparable to Xbox.

Admittely, I never really knew them to begin with. I knew it wasn't as powerful as the other systems, I just had no idea what it would cost because of the controller and how it worked. It may not be as powerful, but I was wondering if the new way of gaming was still going to cause it to cost more.

I guess what I should of said was that I'm surprised that Nintendo is willing to sell it that cheap.

I think the price is fine as it is. You can't exactly tell nintendo to release the console at a price lower than its handheld price can you. And releasing the console cheaper than the gamecube's release makes them look cheap.

I'm defintely going to get a pack with something like 2 Wii remotes or something like that though.

$250 isn't steep, really. Steep would be like what the Xbox was priced at release. $250 is a good price for a next gen console, it's also the cheapest so yay And yes, it's going to be very well worth it.

I heard it would be around $250 or lower sometime before, but I didn't know if that was true. Good thing to know that I wasn't being lied to. xDD

That's not a bad price at all, and even if it doesn't get bumped down to $200 or so, that's still pretty gosh darn generous for a Next-Gen console, despite it's hardware specs. I don't really give a crap about those, anyhow. =p

I had no idea that a game would be released with it. o.o' That's pretty coolie, but I'm not too crazy for Wii Sports if that's what they're planning on. But I guess that's still a pretty good bonus, including the price and all. Nice.

$250 is only $50 less than the core Xbox 360. It would be a bad move. The difference between $199 and $249 is more than $50. Am I crazy? Well, it's the 1 at the beggining, pyschological effect, makes it more 'impulsive' to buy. The gap between $199 - $249 is bigger than that of $249 - $299.

At $249, suddenly the 360 doesn't seem that much more, but at $199, it seems like a much bigger gap.

Personally, I feel $249 would be a momumental mistake.

holy i dont see why people are freaking out over that i think it's low cuz ps3 and xbox360 are wayy higher. and in the end wii is the best system so far (in my mind it is) because it's a new way to play games and i like how you feel like your in the game and it's not just some dumb controller doing it for you so thats great

http://wii.ign.com/articles/732/732669p1.html
$250 on November 19th? I can't believe what I'm reading.
Oh wait, yeah I can. But can you?

Note : If someone posted this somewhere else, delete. Something is telling me to take it with a grain of salt though. I'm suprised no one hasn't though.

"The New York Times published with the story and seems, in fact, to have beaten Nintendo Co. Ltd with the news." <- those words for me are the damning part. New York Times assumed they had a scoop there yet, the Wii official website still has not been updated with an offical date as I can see even after the Press Conference that was supposed to be announcing the Launch dates and prices world wide.

This article http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060914/tc_nm/japan_nintendo_dc and some others I have been able to find via yahoo or msn news all report the Wii as launching DEC. 2nd in Japan only. No date listed for Europe or the US yet. Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii also offered the same news.

So if the Wii will be coming out as of dec 2nd in Japan it won't be out any sooner in the Us but I wonder how much later the wait will be. Hopefully not very long as hell we all want one for christmas and ya all know it.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/topics/wii_p...tion/index.html But Xiany, all that aside, This is the most interesting part of the article. A thread should probably be made for this alone, because...well, just look at it and see.

But yeah, If its false than the NY Times will officially be making fools of themselves, so I'm not so sure. All around, I'm just not getting my hopes up.

$250 on November 19th...

I'll be honest, I'm slightly disapointed with Nintendo; an earlier launch and a smaller price tag would have done them better. You only make a first impression once.

Oh yeah, this info is legit. Dunno where that 2nd December date comes from.

If you look around you'll see that 19th November for $250 is the official word.

Oh yeah, virtual console support from:



Plus 10 new games per month!

NES: $5
SNES: $8
N64: $10

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5344510.stm and www.nintendo.co.jp (translated) <- I'm just going by what I've been reading since my boyfriend told me nintendo would be having a press release today hopefully in reguards to there official launch date. -shrug- I suppose if the Dec 2nd date is wrong then a lot of the news organizations that are reporting it now will just retract there statements and post new ones later. Lord knows there have been enough false reports and speculations on it.

I think the late release date is insane frankly. I don't mean Nov or Dec. Honestly I would have liked to have seen the system come out before the US thanksgiving holiday. I really don't want to have to spend my christmas being dragged from one store to another by an obsesive boyfriend fiending for a new console toy on christmas eve. The earlier the better I say.

That's really wierd that its coming out in the US before Japan

Man, it's good to be a Nintendo fan. =) I'm happy with this! Really!
Did you guys also see the VC previews? Man that thing looks amazing!
Hero, I know.. but I think the Japan version maybe gettin' something more than us. Prehaps more games? LOL. Jus' a guess!

I am happy, its 250 and it offers everything to get going from the get go. Wiimote, nunchuck, AC adapter, A/V cable, sensor bar, sensor bard stand, stand and two batteries. Plus it comes with Wii Sports so that means one more game besides the five I am going to buy, provided third party also stays on the 50 bucks line. Thats 500 bucks for my wii, i am going to threat myself this holiday season.

Honestly a lower price would turn me off, i dont know why, it would benefit my economy incredibly. If it had gone for 200 that would have meant another game but for some reason i think it would have been way too damn cheap.

You know what, scratch that, the dreamcast went for 199 on release and it was beautiful, but its only 50 bucks more, compared to the 3sucky's 400 or the ps3 mortage program this is awesome.

EDIT: I forgot, make tthat $520(plus tax) for now (there is no word on the price of the flash memories) because I need a classic controller too. Also, they should release the nunchuck for 20 instead of 40. I dont see me buying another one besides the one included but other people do and it shouldnt be that expensive.

With how well the DS is doing, 360's non presence, and Sonys manufacturing problems, maybe concentrating on the US is the best right away; Wii is pretty much assured to sell like crazy in Japan, wheras Europe and the US especially are a harder sell.

I guess they can wait a little longer for the Japan release. =D