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Charting the seven seas of video gaming [Update 1]
We referenced this in an earlier post, but it's such a brilliantly useful idea that we thought it deserved a post of its own. Curmudgeon Gamer posted a chart that maps out the price of 26 major game consoles at launch, showing both the sticker price and the relative price today. It's a great idea (that I wish I had thought of) that puts the Xbox 360 and PS3's prices in perspective. If you think in terms of relative pricing, Nintendo has been reducing the launch price of its consoles for the last 20 years. Will it continue that trend with a $200 Wii?Read - Absolute Console PricesRead - Relative Console PricesUpdate: We've hosted the image on our own servers to save Curmudgeon Gamer's bandwidth. Check out the read links above for the charts.
Wii will cost $200 say spectators
Nintendo Wii will launch at $200 in an attempt to undercut the competition, says an analyst at Merrill Lynch. An executive from SEGA goes further, suggesting that Wii will launch for under $200. This latest estimate sits in the middle of previous ones, but taken in the context of past console releases a $200 launch price wouldn't be out of character for Nintendo. The NES, SNES, Nintendo 64 and GameCube all launched at a price point of $200, so we wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo throws up their hands and says "why mess with tradition?"With the PS3's price confirmed, Nintendo's console is the last of the next-generation consoles to get a solid release price so it's natural that fans and analysts alike will continue the guessing game. As for the other type of price guessing game -- how much the Wii (PS3, Xbox 360) costs to make -- no-one has stepped up to the task just yet.[Via /.]
