Mama always told us that if everyone else is jumping off a bridge we should do it too. And so we give you the "news" that retirement-bound Nintendo marketing VP George Harrision told Reuters that the Wii is staying at $249. Harrison says that the Wii is still selling out everywhere and there's no need to drop the price at this point. The man is absolutely right.
Oh heck, while we're reporting the obvious: The PS3 is still too expensive (hopefully not for long), Microsoft won't port Halo 3 to PS3 -- ever, the PS3 will not be getting rid of Blu-ray and the Wiimote eats batteries like a fat kid at a buffet. We're sure there's more obvious news we can stumble upon today, but we're pretty sure saying the Wii won't get a price drop is definitely in the top three.
Wii not getting a price drop -- is that news?
79 Comments by Alexander Sliwinski Oct 12th 2007 10:00AM
Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Business
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Actually, no, keep throwing up. Maybe bulimia may be just the spark you need to get your weight under the Shamu limit.
of course not. by calling phattie "fat", you are going along with his joke. HE is the one that is mocking/parodying fat people. the fact that the best comeback you have to him is "haha you are fat" just makes you look retarded.
Hey sony boys, how's those SIXAXIS games going? I don't really see much motion sensing going on...
Look, I am a Sony fan. Actually a fan of most systems but I have a slight biase towards Sony products. Anyway, I come here and find people like you being every bit as annoying as Fernando but from the other side. It's ridiculous, just stop. Because, somehow, your behavior gets linked to me. Guilt by association I guess. But regardless, just stop. Stop flaming the Wii. I have one and while it's not exactly my top system, it's still decent enough not to decry it. If you want to bitch about systems, here's a list. Tear into them all you want.
CDi
3DO
Odyssey II
Jaguar
Track those down and witchhunt them. They sucked.
Here phattie: "Having more control options does not necessitate the use of all options at once." You think if Nintendo doesn't make a game that uses the remote, the nunchuck, the classic controller, the balance board, the WaveBird, and a Zapper all at once it's a failure?
Don't answer it, please.
Congratulations. You have all the intelligence of a chicken mcnugget.
How come lowering the price is not considered an act of kindnedd by the console maker? Why aren't we overjoyed that the console maker decided to get less profit, just for us?
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Yeah, lowering the price would not help the Wii sell more, as I hear it's STILL gone the same day as it comes in, even now.
Though, lowering the price now would help make sure that the Wii STAYS sold out for longer, which is a better thing than the Wii becoming available, and once the glamor of a sold-out system is gone, and people see it's list of playable games is STILL in the single digits (basically).
Right now, the Wii is popular, because it's popular. Once that wears off, they better have many games out.
With the Wii, it is a matter of the Wii keeping up to their underpar manufacturing output, so why drop the price? It would only make sense if they actually increased manufacturing at the same time.
And really, it is possible to have a great selling product and choose to drop the price. If the Wii had better manufacturing output, they could very well drop to $200 if it meant enough increase in console sales.
With, say the PS3, the price drop is basically an acknowledgement that the thing can't be sold at its current price. There is a reason people freaked out when they first announced the price, and now we are seeing that come to fruitition.
I may have mispelled that last word. Deal with it.
...fat kids eat batteries?
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Actually, it's a simile seeing as how it made use of 'like' or 'as'.
And if it wanted to make sense, it would have read something like:
"and the Wiimote eats batteries like a fat kid [EATS A TYPE OF FOOD] at a buffet"
Well...was just making a joke, I guess it got lost in your stupidity.
You were trying to be a smart-ass. You also failed.
Fail x2.
Go to school.
Mark C is correct on his response, " 'and the Wiimote eats batteries like a fat kid [EATS A TYPE OF FOOD] at a buffet' ."
I personally would have gone with macaroni and/or fried chicken skin.
+1 for Anticrawl
More like a met-a-three. It's missing something.
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but that's just dead reckoning, i have no data to back that up
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My 2400mAh rechargeables have last me, well, since I bought them. Get weeks of play off them then throw them into the 30 minute charger.
Wii still the best console out.
Excitetruck = Depth? What? When was this EVER the case? It certainly wasn't when the game was called Hydro Thunder and Midway made it. Basically, as you unlock vehicles, it's all a subtle stat balance and that's about it. But it's never a regressive balance. In other words, you ALWAYS unlock better cars, never adding to the choices presented to you to clear races, merely pushing you up a linear path towards faster speeds. Kinda like leveling in an RPG. "Welcome to Lv2, now you hit hard."
Also, the tracks lack any real interesting attributes to them. In other arcade racers like Hydro Thunder, Ridge Racer, Sega Rally Revo, and even Full Auto, the environments are busy, things going on. It's a staple of the genre, in all honesty. In Excitetruck, the only things that maintain interest in the environments are the changes you make yourself via the modifier powerups. I would be much more enthralled with the huge jumps if there was something to look at. Maybe a busy logging encampment or a highway off in the distance. Not to mention all the possibilities for ski lodging or helicopters in several of the environments. So for an arcade racer, the excitement in the environments themselves fell flat.
ExciteTruck is not a bad game per se. It's just an arcade racer than exists in a valley of giants. Hopefully majority of these issues will be fixed for the sequel including the all important noticable missing feature, four player splitscreen. To call it deep though is quite funny.
But better than Motorstorm? Well, I guess it's all opinion but there is a hell of a lot more depth to Motorstorm than Excitetruck. But it falters on many other aspects such as being online multiplayer only or not being able to create your own single player races. Gotta find that event ticket...
But of the two, both are pretty readily stomped by other arcade racers such as Sega Rally Revo and Ridge Racer 7. Sad, but true.
They are not as desperate as Sony.
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But anyway back on topic. If any place needs a drop its Japan, its the only territory where the sales are sluggish.
Sorry for the double post earlier (once again, edit/delete button FTW).
...FOR ME TO POOP ON!!!
Really Kotaku feels like a fascist extension of /b/ there is furry, hentai, racism etc but don’t you dare to do it yourself or else, also Kotaku posters suck and the stupid idea of let posters ban other posters is plain retarded you only let gangs take over the place and make the minority which would be PSP,Ps3 and some XB360 supporters suffer but then again if you are a hardcore gamer what the eff are you doing in kotaku they only cover sh*t unless you consider news about a new Japanese pedophile game something important
So basically Kotaku sucks because is unfriendly to new posters, their news section suck they only cover hentai figures and dog crap that looks like Mario and their editors are furf*gs, seriously they do have an obsession for furry in kotaku.
But seriously...after the clusterfuck of all the Nintendo/Wii flame-fests yesterday, it becomes hard to deny the merits of a walled community sometimes.
(Not that I'm always a saint, either, mind you...)
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Thats my 2 cents - not worth much more.