World: 'How about a Wii price cut, then?' Nintendo: 'Ahahahaha'

Increase the demand?
That's a scary future.

Well, it isn't COMPLETELY retarded. Let's keep in mind that it has been almost 2 years since the release of this amazing video game console. After two years, you'd think Nintendo would soften up a bit and lower the LAUNCH-DAY price but they don't. So, I wouldn't say that it's retarded... just maybe mental?

TheWarlock, in all fairness, Nintendo has lowered the price of the Wii in Canada. Yes, this has more to do with the changing US/CAD dollar, but they certainly could have stuck to their guns and kept on charging us $20 ($30?) more.

I see. You do have a point there but it is indeed annoying when they whine and whine about how they should lower the price... it IS 250!

i know! they could get away with a raise! i bought my wii brand nerw on ebay for 400 dollars cuz i couldn't find one and during Christmas time i bought one from a friend for 200 and sold it for 600 on ebay again hehe suckers

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Seriously, Nintendo is out to make money. They have no reason to reduce the price of the Wii since it's selling so well. If anyone wants a bright side to this, it's that Nintendo could probably pull another 4 gamecube-esque generations without going out of business.... OH CRAP GUYS.

Wii isn't current gen

Go die.

Please stop making unfounded comments about the Wii. It is not true that "the largest majority" of Wii owners only play Wii Sports, that's just a myth that fanboys made up so they can feel better about their $500 worth of HD equipment.

Also, please don't reply with the stock standard "I know three friends that only own wii sports" because that argument is flawed beyond belief.

Instead, why can't everyone just appreciate that the Wii has hit an untapped market and expanded the horizons of gaming. I can name 10 games for you right now that are worthy of your money, and plenty more on the way. So quit complaining about the Wii, it's a marvelous machine

/rant

Not that they're necessarily right (since they only have a little research to back up their claims), but the New York Times seems to feel the same way:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/technology/21wii.html?_r=2&ref=business&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

I never said that there aren't games worth playing. In fact, I own Brawl, Mario Galaxy, No More Heroes, and Twilight Princess for the Wii, in addition to the more "casual" games like Wii Sports and Wii Play.

You seem to be far too star-struck by the Wii, so much so that you're flaming pretty much anything even remotely anti-Wii. I never complained about the Wii. My only point was that many casual gamers (and from what I can find, a large majority of them) do not play many of the excellent titles for the system. Games like No More Heroes are great...but don't sell well.

As that NYT article stated, it's probably the fault of bad marketing. Much of this previously "untapped market" is totally uninterested in these games because the advertising either isn't reaching them, it's not effective on them, or even worse, the games themselves just aren't a good choice for the new market. This is the case with No More Heroes, for example--casual gamers just don't get it.

Perhaps the worst case is that these people don't feel the need to buy new games. Traditional gamers buy new games because they play their old ones so often that they get tired of them, and because new games offer new experiences. However, a casual gamer doesn't have these pre-defined behaviors. Sure, they could pick them up over time, but they must be developed, and I would say that once this happens, that casual gamer has moved from "casual" to "traditional"--or at least some strange middle ground.

Anyway, despite the somewhat sharp division between casual and "traditional" gamers, the Wii seems to be doing fine, which means that software must exist for both camps. I still argue that there is a problem when the casual gamers aren't buying many games, considering the explosion Nintendo has made into the casual market. It means that once the system starts slowing down in sales, Nintendo's profits will drop like crazy and the system will stagnate.

However, Nintendo will have already made record profits from the Wii, and perhaps third party publishers will finally be able to step up and make software compelling enough for the casual audience to buy it.

PSP is better/cheaper

Although I love the Wii, I think "half-generation hardware" may not be understating too much. Nintendo obviously steered away from more expensive hardware, choosing to use a remote control as the sole selling point of the console. That and the Nintendo name. If it weren't for the great games that prove the Wii doesn't "need" better graphics, I would view them as nothing more than a corporate machine making one last desperate attempt at a cheap dollar. It almost feels like Nintendo was afraid to spend more money on the Wii, as if they feared the end was coming (neither the N64 or the Gamecube were as successful as their ancestors). Thankfully, this generations success will ensure the birth of the next generation, all they need to do is upgrade the graphics and consider upgrading the Wiimote. Let's just say the concept of a Wii2 doesn't sound bad.

Since upgraded hardware apparently isn't enough for some people (it always has been before) and there must now be some great innovation that a next-gen carries, here I go.

I don't know a lot about the PS3, only that it finally has enough games in it's library that I plan to buy one this year, but I can easily speak for the 360. We know the hardware is strongerbetterfasteretc... so let's move on to the innovative feature of the 360, Xbox Live. To my knowledge, Xbox Live is the best multi-player experience out there (yeah, we have to pay for it but I've learned to live with the extremely low fee), just one generation ago, online multi-player was just an added feature to a very select few games and could only be found in abundance on the PC. Now, as soon as I power on the console I see which of my friends are online, I see what games they're playing, I can talk to them with the headset, invite them to play whatever game we feel like, and besides that I don't even need friends anymore. I can play any game with an amazing population of users all connected through the various matchmaking systems incorporated in (I think) all Xbox Live games. I have yet to use the Wii online since it hasn't actually been in my possession for a few months and thanks to that I haven't even played Brawl yet... but I've heard about the stupid friend codes and the limit to how many you can have and I think that could drive me crazy (granted there is a limit of 100 friends on Xbox Live but that can be sidestepped by creating a friends list on a seperate silver account and using the friends of friends feature to expand your max listing by 100 each time, also you don't NEED friends to play 360 online).

I love the Wii, love the 360, want the PS3. I'm not biased. I'm just a gamer with an opinion, and I think it's ignorant and lazy to call out the PS3/360 for not implementing some crazy innovative controller that drives a large number of hardcore gamers away.

It's lazy to call out systems for being... lazy?

uh.. no. and no, graphics havent always been the only thing that got us by as gamers, or the Nintendo DS wouldnt be selling so freakin well and nintendo wouldn't come out with a unique controller for every system... which the competition does not. and yes, i know the 360 is an upgraded controller, but it still is basically the same thing just streamlined.

And before you say don't fix it if it's not broken.. well, i can say with 100% certainty the PS3 controller (or all ps controllers) definately need some work!

So yea, I DO think it's lazy of them. No I don't expect something crazy, but a nice, new, MODERN controller might be nice than just putting wifi in a 13 year old pad.

Last generation i was bored with all three consoles. I was bored because each generation was more of the same, and it was honestly not that entertaining for me anymore. I couldnt sit down and play for long periods of time because i wasnt entertained.

The wii has been able to finally break that away and im an excited gamer again. Im so happy they finally did something that seems next get (ie: a NEW experience). I'm not saying you have to come up with something crazy every generation, but 3 in a row when it's just an upgraded chip.. sorry.. that's when i just stop buying it.

Maybe with the PS3's low hardware sales and crippled software library (compared to it's competition), Sony will finally wake up and realize gamers don't want the same old same old with a price tag that is 2x + than it was the last two generations of playstation.