OOps forget i never wrote the till between 11-3, Does anybody else kinda do this, i write out sentences in my head and think im writing here, only to read the post and see ive missed bits out, going senile? , sorry for off topic .
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Nice trine 2 update coming next week
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looked at one of these today in Game and they wanted ?54.99 for BO2 - WTF. Looking at the 360 and PS3 deals out there right now the WiiU looks WAY overpriced.Comment
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Yeah but it is a brand new console. New consoles and the games for them are always overpriced. Since like, forever.Comment
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In all fairness that is just Game being bloody stupid. Both HMV and Argos are selling it for ?45.Originally posted by jim g View PostComment
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yes i know that, i have been buying them for long enough, but the world has changed, to bring out a console that is similar to 360 and PS3 (apart from the Pad), it is still overpriced.Originally posted by wakka View Post
Interestingly there is still no price for the pad on its own as Nintendo wont issue one.Does this mean that the WiiU pad will only ever be used by one player? If so for multiplayer and co-op games the other players haev to use Wii Controllers. So in effect, making the WiiU for multiplayer and co-op a HD Wii!
Lets not forget the 3DS fiasco on pricing......Comment
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How many devs will make a game that uses more than one touchpad?
Nintendo would have to make a game that uses 2 gamepads and bundle the gamepad with the game in order to sell any.Comment
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Originally posted by Jim G
?250 for a brand new system isn't bad. There are masses of R&D costs to recoup with a new system - for comparison, Amazon have the 500GB superslim PS3 for ?210 still. Now that I consider overpriced, since Sony have had it on the market for the past 6 years and must have recouped their costs many times over by this point.
For another comparison, the 360 with Kinect and Dance Central is ?250. Yeah you get a game thrown in, but the pricing is basically on par with the Wii U. And again, the 360 has been on the market for donkey's years by this point.
Personally I like how the WiiU uses wiimotes for multiplayer. It means that right out of the box I can play 5 player games (rather than the usual ?35+ cost of each additional pad at launch).
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Something to be said for being able to use the older controllers. I used older ps2 sticks and steering wheel on my PS3 originally. Very handy. No use if you never owned the previous system of course.
R&D costs on the WiiU can't be that expensive can they? 4 year old GPU, a PowerPC CPU and a resistive screen along with motion controls that they invented 6 or 7 years ago. I don't see much R&D in there. Sony's 12GB PS3 (which is what we should be comparing the WiiU to price wise) is ?146 on amazon. The PS3 still includes a blu-ray player, ethernet port and they have to pay licensing costs for DVD, Blu-Ray, Dolby, and DTS which Nintendo have avoided by not including those features. I agree with Jim on the pricing but I also understand that all consoles are expensive at launch so this wasn't a surprise and is the price you pay as an early adopter. You either deal with it or wait.Last edited by Brad; 13-12-2012, 10:52.Comment
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Being talking about your supps with Stallone much Mr. Hoskins? Lol...Originally posted by evilthecatuk View Post"It's me ****ing Mario come here and ill ****ing tw** ya"
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That's right.Originally posted by FSW View Post
There this whole concept of "supply and demand" for people that don't know. The more something is wanted, the more it's value will be even if the product itself isn't really valuable, see iPhone. Why would Nintendo sell the Wii U for pocket change when they can sell all the units they can produce with the price they want? It's a capitalistic society we live in.Comment
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Hmm yeah, I guess that is true FSW. I still don't think the WiiU's pricing is as excessive as some people seem to think though. Nintendo are such cheap bastards to exclude Dolby and DTS, even though PCM is better.Comment
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Unless you don't have any wiimotes and 4 of them with nunchuck are ?200 (if new)Originally posted by wakka View Post
?250 for a brand new system isn't bad. There are masses of R&D costs to recoup with a new system - for comparison, Amazon have the 500GB superslim PS3 for ?210 still. Now that I consider overpriced, since Sony have had it on the market for the past 6 years and must have recouped their costs many times over by this point.
For another comparison, the 360 with Kinect and Dance Central is ?250. Yeah you get a game thrown in, but the pricing is basically on par with the Wii U. And again, the 360 has been on the market for donkey's years by this point.
Personally I like how the WiiU uses wiimotes for multiplayer. It means that right out of the box I can play 5 player games (rather than the usual ?35+ cost of each additional pad at launch).
and Nintendo are the cheapest bastards on earth see Wii MiniLast edited by ETC; 13-12-2012, 12:45.Comment
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Yeah but to be fair pads are always excessively expensive for what they are, it's an easy money spinner. Like memory cards used to be, I bet they're all gutted they have to issue storage as standard these days.
Although I say that but look at the Vita lol. Sony have always been the overpriced memory card's number one fan.Comment
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