Recently, many analysts have come to the conclusion that the Wii U’s price is to high. While the Wii U will have high sales during the holiday season, too high of a price point could cause stagnant sales during 2013. Nintendo's Scott Moffit explains that the Wii U price point is fine where it is, based on consumer demand.
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The thing is selling. A lot. Maybe it doesn't speak too much, but it certainly speaks something.
Consumers have NO experience with the system. We have NO way of knowing how the reactions will be and how lasting the positive response will last or to what extent.
also this shows how unaware console gamers really are.
Instead of paying $50 more for the wiiU deluxe for an extra 24GB why not spend it on this?
http://www.amazon.com/Toshi...
Lol noobs.
no one in their right mind would pay $50 for just 24gb...
Why would they....if they both do a powerful console each then the Wii U is going to be in the minority, and where do you think developers will want to go then.
Do they want to stay producing games on all three consoles or would they just develop for the PS4 and 720 and produce much more powerful games which can do much more.
let me see a 3D mario, Metroid, Starfox, Xtreme-G, Rogue Squadron and of course Zelda.
You cannot say that AC3 or Black Ops 2 are old ports as AC3 is less than 2 weeks old and Black Ops 2 will have been 5 days old by the launch. Ninja Gaiden 3 is a "reimagining" of what the game was originally supposed to be. But it includes a significant amount of new features and gameplay changes to negate it simply being a port.
Batman, ME3, Fifa 13, Madden 13, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, NBA2K13 and Darksiders 2 are the older ports. Although at least with ME3 and Darksiders 2 you are getting all the DLC included with the games, which is a nice feature if you haven't played either of them before.
7/31 is about one quarter of the releases.
almost only? hardly.
I'm buying Wii U only for Nintendo games just like i did with older hardware from Big N!
Consumer demand is also ridiculously high whenever Apple launches any of their iDevices, and we all know Apple stuff is expensive as hell.
And I'm pretty sure that Sony's and Microsoft's next home consoles will also sell out on preorders, even if they end up costing $500 or more (which I doubt, but that's another story).
So, this doesn't prove the pricing is right. It just proves that people get excited about shiny new things, that's all. Especially after 6-7 solid years into this generation of consoles, it's the longest generation in the history of home consoles, so people of course want something new.
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That being said, I do think that the $300-$350 price point for Wii U is actually pretty good.
Meanwhile, Sony was supposed to have 400,000 PS3 units ready for its launch in november, 2006, but there was a big number of PS3's that had some issue with the laser or something along those lines, so Sony had to recall those faulty units. That's all I remember from memory.
Now, the gaming market has broadened greatly, and as I said, this console generation has lasted way more than any other in gaming history, so the hype levels could understandably be even higher this time around. Add to that a bigger gaming market than 6 years ago, and it could be easy to see how the Wii U is sold out everywhere, despite it being available in higher numbers than the original Wii ever was.
My argument, for now, still stands.
On Topic I don't feel the entry price point is high at all. I would consider the Wii-U to be kind of like a PS3.5 or a Xbox540 so to be in the same price range with the others is right on if you ask me.
even then, i will prolly wait 3 or 4 years before getting one, there are still a shitload of games i didn't finished in the wii and another shitload of games to play on PC...