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[Pro Pizza! >:D]

Here's an article- HERE
Looks like Nintendo's goal is to get the console around $250.

[Chipsqueek]

The quote says it will likely cost more than $250. It doesn't specify how much more. Could cost $100+ more.

Nintendo is stuck between a rock and a hard place. "Core" gamers want it to have a 16-core, 100 GHz CPU, a Nitrogen-cooled GPU, and 32 TB of RAM. But they don't want it to cost more than $399. How can Nintendo win?

Edited by Chipsqueek, 25 June 2011 - 06:43 PM.

[Dementis]

The quote says it will likely cost more than $250. It doesn't specify how much more. Could cost $100+ more.

Nintendo is stuck between a rock and a hard place. "Core" gamers want it to have a 16-core, 100 GHz CPU, a Nitrogen-cooled GPU, and 32 TB of RAM. But they don't want it to cost more than $399. How can Nintendo win?

Nintendo's core gamers will take anything Nintendo gives them without a second thought. PS3 and 360 core gamers just want a console that has a COD game with more realistic blood splatter effects. They obviously wouldn't want a console with those specs because they wouldn't know what they mean. And they'll still lap up the next PS3/360 and probably won't care that it's a casual console.

These people you're talking about? They're the PC gamers.

Edited by Dementis, 26 June 2011 - 10:24 AM.

[Axis Magnus]

PS3 and 360 core gamers just want a console that has a COD game with more realistic blood splatter effects. They obviously wouldn't want a console with those specs because they wouldn't know what they mean.

Well, your half right. Otherwise we wouldn't be seeing that stupid "Wii U sux becuz in 2 yeers Sony and Microsoft will come up wit sumthing beter" argument. Most likely their logic would be "I don't know what this is but the numbers are higher than Wii U so must be good".

[Tony Bradshaw]

Highly doubt it will cost $250... It'll be at least $350. They're not using cheap parts. =\

[TheSparrow87]

I'm guessing it'll be at about $400 bundled with a game a Upad and a wiimote/nunchuck combo.
With the Upad alone costing $80.

[Narcidius]

These people you're talking about? They're the PC gamers.

Kinda hard to keep track of the haters these days, and where they come from (oh, the internet... how I both love and hate you for giving EVERYONE a voice).

While I think that your core comment makes, perhaps, too extensive a use of hyperbole, I get your point. Nintendo's fans tend to look almost gullible in their sycophantic admiration of the big N (mind-bogglingly, almost in direct proportion to how little the company actually gives them to play), and the stereo-typical PS360 fan cares more about how their console makes them look to their friends than about the beauty, depth, and innovation of games as a medium of art/entertainment... yadayadayda.

I don't think that any of these stereotypes invalidate the points that many people are making here... nor the valid doubts that many core gamers have about Nintendo's commitment to making games that push the industry into new territory and actually give them games they want to play. I will pay $400 for a new system... but I want that system to be capable in terms of power (so that I don't HAVE to buy an Xbox720 or PS4 to get the best gaming experiences on market), and I want it to feature games that interest me in terms of theme, scope, immersion, tone, etc.