Nintendo expects to keep its Wii video game console priced at $249 for the time being since it is selling all of the units it makes, a senior U.S. executive said on Thursday.
"We'll stay at $249 for the foreseeable future. We are still selling everything we can make," George Harrison, senior vice president of marketing at Nintendo America, told Reuters in an interview.
Deliver Us Mars developer Keoken Interactive has laid off the majority of its staff after struggling to secure funding …
The industry model and standards and who's in place to approve/disapprove have changed ^ what Keoken is feeling now is much like the Mobile burst 15 years ago. Expect more to come out of your own finances. Investors are treating games like movies and now (thank$ a lot for involving yourself hollywood) only the big (and money blind) investors get involved, effectively killing a lot of content that would come out with proper non-gate-kept and/or with incentivized funding.
Sorry but i couldn't care less, Deliver us Mars was as woke game as they come, climate change disaster, all female cast plus only a comic relief indian guy (it takes only 5 minutes into the game for the main female character to say how smart she is compared to the guy), evil white guys, ugly females, then add generic gameplay and puzzles (how many times do you have to cut things with a laser for gods sake), you can't change anything in how the events develop so 0 agency in the story, sub par graphics even while using UE4. So well, go woke go broke, that's how it works.
That stinks but with a 68 average critic rating on their games probably made it difficult for people to invest considering there is a bloat of games getting made these days.
Mat Piscatella of analyst firm Circana has revealed that the PS5 was the market leader in North America for both unit and dollar sales during not only March 2024, but the first quarter of the year as a whole.
Writing on Twitter, Piscatella revealed that spending for video game hardware in February 2024 dropped 32% in comparison to the same period last year, totalling $391 million. In addition, spending for PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch each fell a minimum of 30% year-on-year.
But PS5 and Switch still outsells XBOX embarrassingly even with overall consoles sales decline.
Najam from eXputer: "The norm of $60 AAA games is no more as developers now charge more for their games. Here's why this might not be a bad thing for gamers."
*Elden Ring type games, yeah sure. (scoring 8+)
(AAA/quadruple A) slop can shove it up their discounted ass
In recent yrs my purchasing In Indies has increased and its decreased for major IP's because I cba with the lack of innovative gameplay.
Focusing on the topic, why not mention Take-Two CEO getting his pay increased while axing 500 staff? I'm getting annoyed that those practices get ignored by the "gaming" media because ya don't want to burn potential bridges but seriously, gtfo.
It's a bad thing for gamers and for in the chair game devs. We just heard of massive layoffs across the industry.
I'd pay more if I read articles about how they were hiring. I'd pay more if I read articles about how the people who made the game scored record setting pay raises and CEOs were no longer given 1 year bonuses that could sustain a small studio for 10 years.
But that's not what happened.
Yeah there's only so much people are willing to pay for entertainment. Especially in the form of games at the same time that there are free to play games and cheaper in the titles that compete with triple A. You're not going to be able to keep increasing pricing and get the same amount of sales. I already don't buy games at the new price or even at $60. I wait for $40 or less. And I don't believe I'm alone in that department. If you don't have any other expenses you can probably continue to afford buying games at the top price but many people eventually have other things that take priority and you're just not going to spend it that much money on a video game.
Heck if I have to play one game for the rest of my life I'd probably end up playing Warframe or Counter-Strike. These are all either free games or were paid games and now are free.
The AAA industry is a threat to the gaming industry. They're trying to continue to ride the way and keep increasing prices. They're trying to get all of the money as long as they're able to.
It's bad. People just want good games at decent prices. Not everything has to be super realistic with 200 voice actors. Look at Palworld.
Makes sense. I know I was wondering how long the 360 would stay at it's price point but really it just kept selling so why bother. Wii is in the same boat. If it's still selling no need to drop the price just yet.
They make a profit on every Wii sold ($50). Since MS went the bundle pack route instead of another price drop to combat the $399 PS3, the Wii is still a $100 cheaper than the xbox elite. I knew once MS didn't lower the cost, Nintendo would follow suit. The problem for Wii though is different - will they have enough units to sell to their consumers over Xmas or will the shortages allow the other 2 to make ground?
the ps3 is now 399$ , and you get this , that , etc, etc, over the wii for only 150$ more , a true next gen system , not some watered down ps2 with 50 different motion controllers repackaged as tennis rackets, wii lightsabers etc etc, if i could go back in time, i would not have bought the wii, waste of money , just got damn thing for zelda, and that even felt like repackaged zelda game with motion controller, ps3 is gonna serve the so called competition in years to come
Nintendo are some money grubbing theives. Repackaging a gamecube and then putting a remote in it. Real Innovative right? WRONG!
NINTENDO WII IS NOTHING MORE THAN AN OVERPRICED GAMECUBE AND NINTENDO PURPOSELY HOLDS SYSTEMS BACK JUST GENERATE HYPE OVER SOME NINTENDOG $HIT!!!!!!!!!!
In 1996, Nintendo claimed to have "shortages" of the Nintendo 64 and in 2001 the same with Gamecube. Which is why Playstation kicked their ass every holiday and will repeat this holiday. Not with the PS3, but with the PS2.
While trying to Nintendo tries to extort buyers out of their hard earned cash, consumers will see they can get a true next gen experience on PS3 and Wii's will be left on the shelf.
PS3's only competition is itself because nothing can still outsell the PS2. Which means more revenue for Sony.
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