I'm fine with the current price

I like his dinosaur analogy...

U crazy, Wii still cost cheap!

its still cheap but that would have been awesome

WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IS EXPENSIVE!

ha if nintendo made a 100 dollar nextgen system, they would have singlehandedly slaughtered sony.....wait, they just might this time

weird dinosaur analogy....

Waaaah waaaaah! Its $250. Not $100. Its still $350 less than the PS3.

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In New Zealand the core 360 is $50 cheaper than the Wii with the core at $450 and the Wii at $500.

eloquently spoken

i like his whole dinosaur metaphor...

if it was $100 at launch i woulda picked one up...& all that could have been

A console for mothers? Why mothers and not fathers?

While I would've loved a $100 price tag for the Wii, $250 for such a great gaming console isn't that bad of a deal.

The first console of nintendo to be over $200. Still if you adjust inflation, I think the Gamecube would be the cheapest.

yay nintendo always lookin out for us poor folks!!!!

AND IT'S RELEASED, YAY!

doh!

Although I like the idea of a cheep console, it would be strange if a portable system - the DS - would cost more than a console.

Selling the console at a loss is a poor business practice. Monopolistic practices. It would be bad for the game industry. Nintendo has high business ethics, so it makes sense that they didn't do that.

Still, I hope they manage to get their next console down to $200 at launch. I paid $200 for my NES, $200 for my SNES, $200 for my N64, etc.

Amazing, that'd be awesome ^^
Can always trust Nintendo

Wow, that sucks...totally would have gotten one if it was just $100. And ryohazuki, I agree - that is a good quote.

Aww, come on! Sony is losing at least $300-500 per unit, Nintendo could have eaten the $150 and more than make up with software because they would absolutly fly out the store at $100, but still at $250 I think they are going to sell quite well.

whatever thanks for reminding me i gotta pay an extra $150

"Too many powerful consoles can't coexist. It's like having only ferocious dinosaurs. They might fight and hasten their own extinction," Miyamoto added.

That's a great quote.

I want a $100 Wii!!!

They probably could sell it for $100.00 but now they are just ripping everybody off!!!!!

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aaaaaah! he shouldn't have said that! now i'm mad

I'm 30 years old and I stick with Nintendo because of the so-called "kids" games. Mario games are the funnest around. I grew up on these types of games and now I'll be able to enjoy playing with my daughter. Nintendo's doing the right thing in not forgetting the people who made them the #1 company when the NES and SNES were around. They can survive on the nostalgia factor forever. The fact that the old Nintendo games will be available (hopefully they open it up for tons of old games - that's a guaranteed success and moneymaker) is icing on the cake. Graphics are over-rated. I've tried FPS and I must say they're the most boring games around, even if they look good.

And I could give a rat's ass about a DVD player. I already own one and when I want a new one I'll buy a separate DVD player that is of much higher quality than anything they could put in a gaming system.

Watch Nintendo have the most powerful console with the newest media support, best graphics, virtual reality, and still be the cheapest and sell the most next gen... I'd laugh...

Unbehagen: 500$?! On man, I had no idea consoles were so expensive in New Zealand, damn! As for the Wii, 100$ would have been nice, but would it have been as poweful? Indeed power isn't everything but a system must keep up with the standards of the times or gamers will feel let down by an inferior product.

$100? I wouldn't have taken it seriously then. The wii's gonna be awesome, sucks that they gave red steel a bad review but im still gettin it. the dino analogy's really awesome. Yeah. uh, when they say, designed with moms in mind, they mean price. The wii's really innovative rather than the 360 or ps3, who just slap on some better graphics and call it a new system. motion. censored. controls. hell yeah.

im so excited to pick up my wii tomorrow

ya right they would make it $100

I don't think they will make it cost less than the DS.

$100 would have been nice...

$100 console these days would just be a paperweight, just like some of those launch model 360s. Oh and I heard Nintendo is putting that new teckmology called DVD into their Wii next year!! that is so friggin awesome it's so cool to know that Nintendo is keeping up with the times.

100 bucks is fine but im sure nintendo wanted a lil more profit than that

yeah but the legend of zelda twilight princess looks aweful

cant do anything with a 100 dollar console

Oh my smurfing GOD. To think that the Wii could have been only 100 bucks.....They would have sold out in seconds versus days. Also Miyamoto's quote is quite true. I can't WAIT to pick up my Wii tomorrow.

100$ is great but the console will look way too cheap. Where is the profit in 100$ considering that they took so much time perfecting motion sensitivity? Do you think it's right for something this great to cost less than a ds, or even a gameboy advance?

If it were a hundred dollars the Wii would out sell the PS3 And 360

100 dollars, man I would jump on that like a Phirana. But that is an amazing quote from Miyamoto.

"Too many powerful consoles can't coexist. It's like having only ferocious dinosaurs. They might fight and hasten their own extinction," Thats a pretty niffty quote i must say...

but man, 100$ Wii? Im sure that if that was the case, Nintendo would win the next-gen console wars, without a doubt

if it was $100 i would buy it without thinking

A $100 wii would have been great, but I really don't know how they would have been able to do it given what the wii is all about. And, that is a great quote, once again Miyamoto-san speaks from experience.

Can't we all just get along. Xbox 360 and Ps3 are both good systems and i bet the wii will be too they all offer somethig different for each gamer. Nintendo aiming there sales toward mom's no offense is crazy i could never imagine my mom playing red steel to save her life let alone my older sister(she likes ps3) my dad yeah maybe he would and i definitly would even if they would have dropped the wii down to $200 it would have sparked in alot more people suprisingly and as for the "ferocious dinosaurs" Mr.Miyamoto is at it again with his quirky quotes