This just in... Nintendo has announced the maximum price of the Wii in the United States. According to the Official Nintendo Magazine, it will sell at no more than 250 US dollars, and will be relatively the same cost across the globe.
Mind you... the price is NOT fixed at $250. It is only a maximum.
By the time it comes out, it could be less, but not more.
It's being said that Sony's said they'll no longer allow people to "own" the games they purchase for full retail prices at stores. It seems you're only buying a license to "rent" the game. So, by law, you will never own the game, and, thusly, you will never be able to, say... resell it on eBay or something.
Good going, Sony. You're dead.
There's been a recent influx of Playstation fanboys who have begun to use this console price chart to say that, based on "current economy" and "currency inflation" (and all these big words they quote, but probably don't understand (I'm so mean)), the Playstation 3's outlandish cost isn't so bad.
A comment for a Slashdot article about an interview with Satoru Iwata made me look at the chart again just now...
So I've seen the chart... and I'm still laughing. Why? The chart that everyone's using to say "$600 ain't so bad" shows that Nintendo has always released their main consoles in the US for $200 throughout their entire history. NES... SNES... N64... Gamecube... all $200. Playstation? $300. Playstation 2? $300. Playstation 3? $600? Hehehe.
So who's getting a Nintendo Wii?
*raises paw*
Sony's stock continues to decline in the wake of E3, while Nintendo is flying high. Apparently, investors are not impressed with the PS3.
...and people say Nintendo is a weak company incapable of withstanding the onslaught of "real" companies. Finally the proof is surfacing that Nintendo was never out of the picture.
Testing out a Digg post... not sure if I like it. Hmm.
Anyway... interesting article telling about how Sony claims that they're so awesome, 5 million people will buy a Playstation 3! Oh, but it gets better! They go on to say that 5 million people will buy a PS3... EVEN IF IT HAS NO GAMES.
Man... this is too funny.
I bought a Super Nintendo off eBay just now. Quite suddenly, actually... Well, only not quite... because I'd been thinking about it for a while. It's been one of those things I know I need, but just never got around to it. Welp... now I have one.
It comes with the console and all connections (no really?), 3 controllers, 1 mouse/mousepad, 19 games, and 1 Game Genie with codebooks, even! Games include Super Mario World, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (ugh), Ken Griffey JR Winning Run, Paper Boy 2, Super Caesars Palace, Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Ken Griffey JR Presents Major League Baseball, Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario Kart, Super Soccer, Madden 95, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, WWF Royal Rumble, Mortal Kombat 2, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, NBA Live 96, Mario Paint, and Hook. (Boldified the ones I've played and like.)
The seller is a brand new seller with zero feedback, but with the eBay job I have, I know how things work when a seller tries to rip bidders off. (I don't rip them off, mind you!! But, yes, I have been threatened before.) So if this guy tries to skip off with my pretty pennies, I'm going to hit him so hard with eBay and PayPal reports that his head is going to spin.
I'm so excited, man... woo! Sheesh. Now I need the SNES to USB adapter.
Gamasutra: Nintendo UK's Yarnton Criticizes Sony For Copying
In a report posted on the online edition of British trade paper MCV, Nintendo UK General Manager David Yarnton has commented on Sony's new motion-sensing controller unveiled at E3 for the PlayStation 3, suggesting aggressively that the company not only copied Nintendo in this instance, but also several times in the past.
Yarnton also pointed out Sony's shift regarding the Wii's unique controller from when it was first unveiled at the Tokyo Game Show in 2005. "I'd love to dig up some old Phil Harrison comments and say 'hang on a second - six months ago when we launched our controller you said one thing, and now why are you doing this?'" commented Yarnton.
The Nintendo UK executive also went on to insinuate that Sony's new controller technology is just the latest in what has become a habit of of copying Nintendo's innovations, stating: "I don't know what their decision making process is but I think if you look back, any innovation that has come in gameplay has come from us."
He also commented on the lack of force feedback in Sony's new controller, blaming patent issues for the reason why it was cut out of the design. "We know Sony have had a lot of issues with their rumble feature and they’ve had to withdraw it - because they didn't innovate, they copied," sniped Yarnton.
The MCV report concluded with Yarnton's assertion that Nintendo is an innovator in the video game marketplace, stating, "With Nintendo, I'm trying to think of anything we've copied... but I can't."
Will people believe Nintendo now?