Nintendo Teases With Wii Price

May 24, 2006 - 9:00pm

Nintendo's Wii console will not sell for over USD 250 in the U.S. while the company plans to ship 6 million units by the end of March 2007.

The success of E3 has kept interest in Nintendo's Wii alive and well in the post-show days and the company has responded, albeit cryptically, to intense media pressure for some pricing information.

The claim that the Wii's price will not exceed USD 250 has further fueled speculation suggesting a USD 200 (Yen 25,000) price tag, something which would make the new console an irresistible proposition for most gamers. The company also plans to ship 6 million systems to retailers around the world between its launch in the fourth quarter of 2006 and the end of its fiscal year on March 31, 2007.

The projections are part of a full-year financial forecast that sees growth of 18 per cent in sales globally, based on anticipated continuing strong demand for the Nintendo DS portable game system, as well as a successful launch for Wii.

The company also said it expects to sell 17 million Wii games in the period. Exact launch dates, identification of the launch library of titles and details on the unique Virtual Console aspect of Wii are expected soon.

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Nintendo Teases With Wii Price

Yeah, its called cheap junk. It doesnt have the big game titles or even close to the power of the 360 and ps3. If you are gonna bother buying a next gen console, you might as well spend big and get the PS3.

Nintendo Teases With Wii Price

-------------------------Wii will be my perfered console, because it has great classic games, and orginal 1st party games that you can only get on the Wii, and great 3rd party games that you can only play w/ the wii-mote

Nintendo Teases With Wii Price

Little interesting fact about Sony. The last Innovation Sony created was the Eyetoy AND the Sony Walkman. That's it. All other ideas from Sony have been borrowed, copied or stolen.Sony just tries to push formats and DRM rootkits on consumers. Innovation Sony needs to grasp again.

Nintendo Teases With Wii Price

"If you are gonna bother buying a next gen console, you might as well spend big and get the PS3."Please don't make me laugh. If i want to spend $600 on a console for power. I will spend that on a higher powered GPU.

Nintendo Teases With Wii Price

whoa people are soo stupid. This is why sony is going around saying they'll sell 2 million system with no games on it. i hope sony burn on this console, they should. as for power, bet you fan fags didnt know that x360 proccor is a little more beefer, idiots. as for nintendo...i am very impressed and i didnt think it was going to look half as good. 600 $'s on a system... lame.

Nintendo Teases With Wii Price

you can talk techs till your blue in the face guruboy. no doubt the GFX are gonna be ace on PS3, but like most people have said, for that money you can have a better PC.And Like someone said on some other post.PS3 = same s**t, different toilet!

Nintendo Teases With Wii Price

Guruboy. Your a Sony fanboy so regardless what news Sony spews, you will lap it up like a dog.You are right on one thing though. Little is known about Cell from the consumer point of view. Developers(who got the dev kits) know its power. And if you heard what most said at E3, the Xbox360 and the PS3 will offer the same in graphic capabilities. Despite what Sony wants you to believe.For every advantage the cell cpu inside the PS3 has over the Xbox360. The Xbox360 has one over the PS3 with regards to its unified GPU with embedded DRAM.LITTLE UNKNOWN FACT FOR SOME: The only game that are multi-CPU threaded programmed right now is the DOOM3 engine. The rest are still single threaded not fully taking advantage of the multi-core cpu inside the Xbox360 or Multi-core PC's.

Nintendo Teases With Wii Price

Go to ANANDTECH and read the article about the PS3 and the Xbox360 details: Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PS3 - A Hardware DiscussionThat's the name of the article there. And just as everyone here is saying. Both consoles will offer the same power output. If you want to be a Sony fanboy and believe the PS3 will be this super power console over the Xbxox360. You need to read it. Both have it's postitives and negatives.

Nintendo Teases With Wii Price

Guruboy. Nic name for a idiot. You keep blabbering aboput.."do research on the Cell" I have read about it. From different sources. NOT JUST SONY SOURCES. I went to Anandtech as Anonymous below stated. I have read the the article at Beyond3d. I have read the article at Techreport. All are the same in it's findings. It's not more powerful then the Xeon CPU inside the Xbox.

Nintendo Teases With Wii Price

You have to love Guruboy for his undying blind faith and allgiance in Sony. Even when they tell lies. You are without a doubt. The master Sony fanboy of this site. If not ALL sites around the world. You are the true 12 year old Sony fanboy. You are 12 years old are you not?

Nintendo Teases With Wii Price

$600 for a console when i can buy a 7900GT or XT1800 for $300 and have money left over to buy 2 gigs of fast DDR2 ram or skip the ram and get a Wii with that GPU? This is what you can call cheap drugs Sony must be taking if they actually think people will spend that type of coin on a console.

Nintendo Teases With Wii Price

Look you morons and idiots. The PS3 cell cpu will prove that the PS3 is superior. I should know. I sucked off Sony's President and f**ked his fathers ass. After i sucked my c*m out of his gaping asshole. For doing this, i got first hand details and knowledge about the cell cpu. Next week i suck off and eat out the asses of the engineers at IBM and they will give me the blue-prints for the cell. So i should know the power of the cell. I am Sony's and IBM's inside and backdoor man.

Nintendo Teases With Wii Price

Also remember the PS3 can fit in my wide asshole that has been stretched to the limits by the whole Cell design team at IBM last year. Even the Dev kit can fit in my asshole right beside it. Push the new controllers in my ass too. It will fit. I only wish the controllers had rumble feature that they took from Nintendo. It would sooth my asshole for me to push in some Blue Ray disks beside the PS3 and Dev kit. I LOVE SONY. IF ONLY I COULD PUSH MY c**k IN THE WHOLE CORPORATION. I WOULD DIE A HAPPY FANBOY. With the PS3 and dev kit and blue ray disks up my ass of course

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