Topic: From Seattle Post-Intelligencer: $250 on Nov. 19

[SixthAngel]

When has a console every been released with multiple colors?  I can't think of one because it is more important to simply ship more numbers for launch then to make less but to let you buy it in sky blue.

This price seems very good to me.  It is reasonably priced, leaves room for a pricecut in the future and keeps Nintendo from bleeding money like every other console maker.  If selling the system at $250 scares away 3rd parties where will they go?  The only other places to go cost $400 and $600 so I guess they will just be scared out of the industry.

I just can't wait to here everyone talk about how much they love Wii sports after they get it at launch after all this bitching.  I would have paid full price for it.

[GoldenPhoenix]

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Originally posted by: SixthAngel
When has a console every been released with multiple colors?  I can't think of one because it is more important to simply ship more numbers for launch then to make less but to let you buy it in sky blue.

This price seems very good to me.  It is reasonably priced, leaves room for a pricecut in the future and keeps Nintendo from bleeding money like every other console maker.  If selling the system at $250 scares away 3rd parties where will they go?  The only other places to go cost $400 and $600 so I guess they will just be scared out of the industry.

I just can't wait to here everyone talk about how much they love Wii sports after they get it at launch after all this bitching.  I would have paid full price for it.

The thing is that on Xbox 360 and PS3, 3rd party is about the only place to go for good to great games. On Nintendo consoles you have Nintendo games to deal with and that is why 3rd parties have always struggled, this will compound that problem. Also the Gamecube was released in two colors .

[BigJim]

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When has a console every been released with multiple colors?

GameCube... Black and Indigo. (Not that I care about the color discussion. Just sayin'.)

[Dirk Temporo]

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Originally posted by: SixthAngel
When has a console every been released with multiple colors?

Gamecube. :| Bad memory?

[SixthAngel]

I didn't buy a gamecube until about a year ago.  Also the gamecubes original color was purple!  It needed the option while the Wii looks great in white.

[getter77]

Bah, the Temptation for Greed thread is haunting me now.

If I happen to get a Wii for Christmas or a late Nov b-day present then that's all well and good.  However, at these kinds of prices, it won't be until sometime in 2007 prolly until I'd get around to shelling out that much.  It doesn't matter to me how much worse the price breaks down for the 360 and PS3 are in some respects, 250 is still 250 in absolute terms at the end of the day.

To me, we've reached a dark chapter in the history of gaming when a proper controller costs more than a standard game itself that isn't Steel Batallion.

On the flip side, I saw a blurb from the transcribin's and such saying the Wii will be region free in the same vein as the DS....unless publishers specifically decide to be d-bags about it.

[Dirk Temporo]

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Originally posted by: SixthAngel
I didn't buy a gamecube until about a year ago.  Also the gamecubes original color was purple!  It needed the option while the Wii looks great in white.

The Wii looks like it clashes with EVERYTHING IN MY ROOM in white.

[nitsu niflheim]

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Originally posted by: SixthAngel
I didn't buy a gamecube until about a year ago.  Also the gamecubes original color was purple!  It needed the option while the Wii looks great in white.

The Wii looks like it clashes with EVERYTHING IN MY ROOM in white.

Then that means it's time to re-decorate your room.  Get to it and stop bitching.

[King of Twitch]

Another option is to place a DVD case on top of it to hide its clashiness.

[jasonditz]

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Originally posted by: SixthAngel
When has a console every been released with multiple colors?  I can't think of one because it is more important to simply ship more numbers for launch then to make less but to let you buy it in sky blue.

No other console has ever launched with Zelda either, but if Nintendo pulled TP out of the launch window everyone would be plenty pissed about it, because they promised.

It's fine if they launch with one color, but Nintendo should not have touted the multiple launch colors at the E3 unveiling.

[jasonditz]

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Originally posted by: SixthAngel
I didn't buy a gamecube until about a year ago.  Also the gamecubes original color was purple!  It needed the option while the Wii looks great in white.

The Gamecube launched in two colors... Indigo (which is what I got, that sort of bluish-purplish one), and Black.  

[decoyman]

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Originally posted by: SixthAngel
I didn't buy a gamecube until about a year ago.  Also the gamecubes original color was purple!  It needed the option while the Wii looks great in white.

The Wii looks like it clashes with EVERYTHING IN MY ROOM in white.

Just pretend it's a window letting in radiant white light from the shining world known as FUN.

[Artimus]

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Originally posted by: SixthAngel
When has a console every been released with multiple colors?  I can't think of one because it is more important to simply ship more numbers for launch then to make less but to let you buy it in sky blue.

No other console has ever launched with Zelda either, but if Nintendo pulled TP out of the launch window everyone would be plenty pissed about it, because they promised.

It's fine if they launch with one color, but Nintendo should not have touted the multiple launch colors at the E3 unveiling.

They didn't taunt anything. They have NEVER said there would be more than one colour.

[wandering]

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what if people hold off on buying a wii until the black color is available?

*Shrug* Wii will sell out. It just makes more business sense to hold off on black til later, where they can use the color to rekindle people's interest in the console.

[Bill Aurion]

Just coming in for my opinion on the prices...

Wii + Wiimote + Wii Sports + All-in-one Composite/Component cables + Photoshop/Photo stuff = 250 is a bloody bargain...

Which of course is somewhat counter-attacked by the nunchuk and Wiimote being sold separately, but oh well...

[Dirk Temporo]

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Originally posted by: SixthAngel
When has a console every been released with multiple colors?  I can't think of one because it is more important to simply ship more numbers for launch then to make less but to let you buy it in sky blue.

No other console has ever launched with Zelda either, but if Nintendo pulled TP out of the launch window everyone would be plenty pissed about it, because they promised.

It's fine if they launch with one color, but Nintendo should not have touted the multiple launch colors at the E3 unveiling.

They didn't taunt anything. They have NEVER said there would be more than one colour.

Yes they did.

[Artimus]

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Originally posted by: Dirk Temporo

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Originally posted by: SixthAngel
When has a console every been released with multiple colors?  I can't think of one because it is more important to simply ship more numbers for launch then to make less but to let you buy it in sky blue.

No other console has ever launched with Zelda either, but if Nintendo pulled TP out of the launch window everyone would be plenty pissed about it, because they promised.

It's fine if they launch with one color, but Nintendo should not have touted the multiple launch colors at the E3 unveiling.

They didn't taunt anything. They have NEVER said there would be more than one colour.

Yes they did.

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[jasonditz]

E3 2005... the many colors of the Revolution

http://www.macobserver.com/article/2005/05/revolution.jpg

[Bill Aurion]

Um, they said they were POSSIBLE colors...Anyone remember them showing a billion colors of GBA and GC before their releases?

[jasonditz]

Any color is possible in theory... I'll have to dig up my VCD of the broadcast, but I'm almost certain they said they were launching with these and "possibly some others"

[RickPowers]

They didn't.  In fact, I recall them saying that they were pretty sure they'd only launch in ONE color.

[jasonditz]

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They didn't.  In fact, I recall them saying that they were pretty sure they'd only launch in ONE color.

hmm... I could've sworn they did.

Seems kind of silly to show off all these great colors and say "look at all the cool colors you could theoretically buy if we were going to sell them, which we probably won't". It's not like no one knew it was theoretically possible to color plastic before E3 '05.

[Arbok]

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Seems kind of silly to show off all these great colors and say "look at all the cool colors you could theoretically buy if we were going to sell them, which we probably won't". It's not like no one knew it was theoretically possible to color plastic before E3 '05.

I'm sure it was done to see early reactions to it. Had one particular color taken off in a large way (like, let's say at random, the press focused on the red and general reaction was favorable toward it) they could possible make it either the main color or an alternate that would follow after launch.

[RickPowers]

I'm still a little heartbroken over the last of a Wii in "Nintendo Red".  I'm sure I'll get over it.

[zakkiel]

My take on price, since I find the color thing kind of frivolous: 1, that motion-control technology must be expensive, and 2, there is no excuse for it being cheaper in Japan than here, Wii sports or no. And if the price is a reflection of Nintendo's desire to make profit off controller sales, they're complete, irredeemable idiots.