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will: wanton sex god:

--- Quote from: Storm Rider ---Latest news guys: $250 and November 19th.

However, the New York Times has apparently pulled this article from their website, so it might not be official. We really can't know for sure until we hear iit directly from Nintendo's mouth tomorrow morning.
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yah 250 is right, bundled with the wii sports on the 19th of november.

0063:
I've seen a lot of whining about the price around the 'Net, and I don't get it. Apparently people wanted two controllers, a classic controller, a bundled game or two, and VC credits. Basically, they wanted Nintendo to give them a 360's worth of value for two Cubes' worth of money. Now they're complaining that Nintendo isn't losing money on their console, and some even suggest they should price it at $150. Twenty bucks more than the DS Lite. Never have I more wanted to be able to punch someone over the Internet than I do now.

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Storm Rider:
Personally, I see no problem with Nintendo skewing the conventional business method and making a profit off the hardware initially. They know people will pay 250 dollars for it, so that's just good economics on their part. I'm a little disappointed extra controllers are so much, but since I'm the only one in my household who plays video games, that won't make much difference since my friends will likely all have their own controllers.

Here's a release date and price list for all regions, for curious parties that are not in North America:

North America: November 19th, $250 US.
Japan: December 2nd, 25,000 yen (approx. $213 US, but no Wii Sports included)
Europe: December 8th, 180 pounds/250 Euros
Australia: December 7th, $400 Australian

Personally, I'm glad to see that Nintendo isn't giving Europe and Australia the shaft as far as release date goes (for those of you who don't know, the PS3 isn't going to be released in Europe until March '07, with no Australian date even announced). From my rudimentary understanding of exchange rates, I believe the Australian and European versions are a little more expensive, but supposedly distribution is not as good in those regions as it is in the US and Japan.

Splunkle:
Usually here in Australia gaming type stuff is about twice what it is in America, even though our dollar is 75 US cents.  So I'm really glad to see the Wii being $400, and launching reasonably soon.  Another awesome thing for us Aussies, and all you Europeans - no regions!  Yaye!  Its all region free!  ^_^

Storm Rider:
Yeah, it seems like Nintendo decided that they liked the whole region-free thing with the DS and decided that there was no need to have territorial lockout on the Wii either. Which means if there is some absolutely crazy Japanese game that isn't getting released in America that looks like fun, you don't have to buy a second Wii to play it!

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