Topic: RE: Press Conference Live Blog

[capamerica]

Is there any more info on the movie playback? Is it DVD playback or File Movie playback like Divx? If they do file movie playback that would totaly rock!

[RickPowers]

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Originally posted by: TheYoungerPlumber
Oh yeah, and have I mentioned I am so friggin underwhelmed by Wii Sports?

Underwhelmed?  It's free, it's more games than we initially thought (both Boxing and Bowling are surprise additions), and ... it's frickin' BOXING.  And BOWLING.

I remember a time when I was the jaded one on this site.  

[Hostile Creation]

I'm actually relieved by no MP3 for launch.  Now I can maybe get Red Steel or BIG DAMN TRUCKS, and I wanted Retro to work on it more anyway.
And now that money can be spent on an extra controller or two, which is way too expensive.

[vudu]

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Originally posted by: Mario

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Zelda gamecube launces December 11th.

WTF, WHY? That doesn't make ANY SENSE for it to come after the Wii version. Pure greed to force people into getting the Wii version.

This may have already been mentioned in one of the other four threads regarding the press conference, but my guess is the delay is due to manufacturing constraints.  My assumption is that Wii games are pressed in the same plant (maybe using the same machines) that GCN games are made in.  If Nintendo is hitting the cap on the number of discs it can make, I'm sure they're going to push back the GCN games a couple weeks in order to ensure they have enough Wii games ready for launch.

[BigJim]

Considering the $212 Japanese price, $250 with WiiSports doesn't seem "free" to me.

I'd take 2 wiimotes and no games over Wiisports.

[mantidor]

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Originally posted by: Mario

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Zelda gamecube launces December 11th.

WTF, WHY? That doesn't make ANY SENSE for it to come after the Wii version. Pure greed to force people into getting the Wii version.

f!ck you Nintendo, seriously, you bastards.

Fortunately Metroid is delayed, it would be the only reason I would feel bad about not getting the console on launch.

[Artimus]

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Originally posted by: BigJim
Considering the $212 Japanese price, $250 with WiiSports doesn't seem "free" to me.

I'd take 2 wiimotes and no games over Wiisports.

EXACTLY. WiiSports is absolutely NOT free. We're paying $40 for it. Considering what it is, that's not any kind of great deal.

Should've been WiiSports and a second controller for $250. I mean it makes no sense, you can't even have two people playing the game you get with the system! They're forcing you to pay $40 for a game game that you need to pay another $40 just to play properly (I've yet to hear one person call WiiSports a worthwhile single player game...). Please explain to me how that's anything but a rip off to the consumer. $199 with one controller is what it should've been. Though if they hadn't set the damn ceiling at the price they went with this would all seem a LOT better. It's really going to hurt the impulse buy when you can get a 360 for the price of another controller.

MAJOR. LET. DOWN.

[wandering]

I'm a bit late to the party.

PGC's reporting of these events has been amazing.

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Only white.

This and no MP are the only 2 things that really dissapoint me. Really wanted black.

[KDR_11k]

I wonder what this means for European pricing. I hope it means nothing and this is just adjusting the US pricing to international levels. Making the VC points cost 1€ per hundred would suck and 1 GBP per hundred would be outrageous.

[wandering]

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Though if they hadn't set the damn ceiling at the price they went with this would all seem a LOT better.

Agreed. The price itself is by no means bad - it'll sell out at that price, so why would Nintendo go any lower? It's just disappointing considering everything we've heard about price up to this point. Nintendo should've said "under $300" and kept it at that until the press conference (actually, what they really should've done was announced the price a long time ago, but whatever.) I guess they gave us that "under 250" figure because they wanted to ease people's fears about price ('OMG what if it's $299.99?') while still keeping it a 'secret'.

[Artimus]

The Canadian price is 279.99, which is exactly $20 cheaper than the GameCube launch price. I guess only you guys are getting raped badly.

[Ian Sane]

"Zelda gamecube launces December 11th."

I see what they're doing but it ain't working on me.  I waited two years for the original version of Star Wars on DVD, I can wait a month for the original version of Twilight Princess.  Unfortunately it nows comes out after my birthday... but not after Christmas.

Sneaky move by Nintendo but a smart one since I think otherwise the Cube version would probably have outsold the Wii one.  This way they can kind of "hide" the Cube version from the public.  Otherwise they would immediately expose that the Wii killer app isn't even a Wii game to begin with.

[BigJim]

Heh. Before you know it, the GCN version will be a Nintendo.com exclusive.

[stevey]

250 isn't bad for and system and game...

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If we played Zelda all day for the entire 6 hours we wouldn't scratch the surface of Zelda.

Freaking awesome!

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Only white.

NO. Wii want black!

[WuTangTurtle]

Watch Europe gets black, and Japan gets Black too.  Wait till 2007 for US Black versions....

I was a suck3r for the White DS Lite and I'll be a suck3r for the White Wii, but i wish there was an easy way for me to transition over to getting a Black version without losing money....Maybe use the warranty through Nintendo and ask for a black version to send to me?

[Caliban]

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Originally posted by: Artimus
The Canadian price is 279.99...

And 1st party games will be $59.99. I'm actually very happy with our Canadian price, however, I wonder if FutureShop/BestBuy/EB/ or any other store will have the Wii/1stpartygames at those prices. Can we force them to have those prices? lol

Pale? > http://dsmedia.ign.com/ds/image/article/732/732708/wii-pics-20060914073341839-000.jpg LOL, it almost looks like his face from his avatar.

[Pale]

God that is me.  =P