“I don’t think we can charge the same price as we currently do for the Wii,” Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told Japan’s Nikkei Newspaper. The Wii is currently priced at under ¥20,000 ($250) in Japan.
The Nintendo boss added, “I don’t think the Wii is going anywhere anytime soon.” When the Wii went on sale in 2006, it was priced at ¥250 ($313) in Japan and $250 in the US.
The Nintendo 3DS launched at ¥25,000, making it doubtful the high powered Wii U with its tablet controller will launch at ¥25,000.
任天堂、新ゲーム機「Ｗｉｉ Ｕ」発表 当初２万円超か [Nikkei via オレ的ゲーム情報]
Republished from Kotaku
Christian
Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 11:36 AMThe wii is hovering around $180 here is Aus with Mario Kart bundled…
why so expensive overseas still?
tian
Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 2:21 PM“When the Wii went on sale in 2006, it was priced at ¥250 ($313) in Japan and $250 in the US.”
I think they were talking about launch date prices, here in Aus I think it was $299 at launch
Inba
Friday, March 30, 2012 at 5:25 PMI don’t think Nintendo will go Sega’s route. Sega only stopped imkang hardware after four failed platforms (Mega CD, 32X, Saturn and Dreamcast).They definitely need to do something though. Hardware cycles alone are too long. If the 3DS has a comparable lifespan to DS, we’ll be playing on iPhone 12 by the time its successor ships.