Topic: Japanese Wii Details

[Caliban]

I don't know why people are complaining about the controllers prices, they have new tech packaged in such little volume, I think it's reasonable but I still want to see what the american prices will be.

Now ask yourselves this question, how much is Sony charging for one of their sparkling innovations (the controller)?

From what I've seen, everything looks fine to me, the UI looks great, the little channels look like something very accesible and non-gamer/gamer friendly, everything is looking good and just waiting for Reggie's speach.

[Bloodworth]

Deadly D, that's not Nintendogs, but The Dog Island, a third party game (and rather strange looking).  The nunchuck also is not wireless, even if you think you spotted one in the video.  The reason that the nunchuck and classic controller are cheaper is because they use the remote's transmitter.

[edgeblade69]

Did I see a Gold Golem in that video? It could be from Zelda but it looked waaaaaayyyy too DW/DQ-esque. Is this DQ Monsters, some other DQ title, or...?

[KDR_11k]

I just converted 250$ to €, turns out it's around 200€ so now you're paying what we did for the GC.

[Ian Sane]

I actually forgot all about this conference thing after all this time of us getting excited about it.  Lots of information to comment on.

I like how Nintendo is actually giving us some real footage and some screens (though not many).  Is it just me or does the footage look better than at E3?  Some of these games look really nice.  Deep sea diving looks cool.  MSX support for the VC is also nice though I wonder if they'll translate those games to English.

I don't like the pricing.  $250 ain't cheap.  That's more than the Cube cost and like others have mentioned it's not much cheaper than the Xbox 360 Core system.  The Wii has inferior graphics and according to IGN it doesn't have a DVD player either now.  The Cube's price didn't mean squat because it was not much cheaper and since it was missing the DVD support everyone just assumed that you were getting what you paid for.  It's not a cheap console if it's "worse" than the competition.  Assuming that $250 price is accurate Nintendo has no real price advantage at all against the Xbox 360.  They do however still have an advantage over the PS3 which gives them a big advantage in Japan.

If the controller is $60 it's too expensive and multiplayer games are going to become scarce because no one is going to pay more than a GAME for a controller.  The classic controller is priced okay and if this motion control stuff flops that's going to become the standard controller anyway.  I think the high price is going to limit the appeal of the controller even if they really make some awesome games for it.  Plus the higher price raises the expectations.  Motion control BETTER be f*cking awesome if we're going to pay so much for it.

I like how Nintendo has some extra features like News reporting and stuff.  That's pretty cool and very much what I wouldn't expect from them, which is good.  The VC games are priced okay for N64 and some SNES and Genesis titles but too high in general if it's $5 to $10.  Nintendo needs to realize the competition here is PIRACY which is REALLY easy for 2D consoles.  Why pay $5 for Super Mario Bros when I can get the NES cartridge for 99 cents at the flea market and FREE online?  If I'm going to pay that kind of money I'll seek out the real cartridges and at least get a collectable out of it.

I can see why Nintendo moved TP to the launch because the other three first party launch titles look like they'll get boring in a couple hours.  Fine for me since I'll just get the Cube version of Zelda and save money.  Launch will sell out anyway and they do have some really sweet games in the works for later.  They just better get those games out without a huge drought.  But then it might not matter because the DS American launch is the worst launch of all time and it didn't seem to matter.  Nothing really matters when the Playstation 3 is $600.

The date is fine.  All I cared about is getting it out for Christmas 2006 which they will.  At this point I don't see how you could have realistically expected anything earlier.  If WiiSports is included that's pretty nice but $250 is still too high.  I'd rather they ditch the pack-in and sell for $200.  At $250 it seems more like a forced bundle than a free pack-in.

I think all this would be a lot better if the prices were all lower.  Nintendo made this big deal about lower costs and in the end we don't save anything (but I'm sure they do).  We've got a $250 Cube with $60 controllers (though $50 games is good).  Nintendo needs to stop penny-pinching.  Thank God Sony is f*cking up worse and MS is screwed in Japan.

[Artimus]

Hahaha, Canadian price is 279.99 which is $20 cheaper than the Cube at launch. That makes me feel a little better.

[wandering]

The graphics are looking better and better. That lava/fire whatever in Mario: wow.

Oh, and what was that flying thing in Zelda?

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We've got a $250 Cube

Madden Wii, Madden cube

[zakkiel]

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No Wii sports, plus it is WAY less cool than it was hyped to be.

If by "no Wii sports" you mean "Wii sports will come with the hardware." And I don't know what hype you were reading. No one with any common sense expected this to be anything other than it is: an assembly of cheap minigames designed to show off the controller in a nongamer-friendly way.

[Arbok]

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Originally posted by: zakkiel
If by "no Wii sports" you mean "Wii sports will come with the hardware."

Well, since this is for details on the Japanese Wii release, one would assume that they were talking about the console in that region, which won't launch with Wii Sports as it is in America.