Wow. This is really shocking. I can't believe Nintendo would be this foolish. How do they expect to compete at those price points? My guess is that most folks would gladly spend the extra $50 and get the Xbox 360. Even less comprehensible is why they're charging so much for their classic library "virtual console" titles. $8 for a "virtual" SNES title? Are they insane? The prices should be more like .99 for an NES title and $2 for an SNES, maybe $5 for N64. That way, at least Nintendo could leverage the nostalgia factor against the others.
All I can say is, Nintendo better hope that its developers can come up with truly innovative games utilizing those wacky controllers, or my guess is this will be the last new Nintendo console released in the US.
Wow. This is really shocking. I can't believe Nintendo would be this foolish. How do they expect to compete at those price points? My guess is that most folks would gladly spend the extra $50 and get the Xbox 360. Even less comprehensible is why they're charging so much for their classic library "virtual console" titles. $8 for a "virtual" SNES title? Are they insane? The prices should be more like .99 for an NES title and $2 for an SNES, maybe $5 for N64. That way, at least Nintendo could leverage the nostalgia factor against the others.
All I can say is, Nintendo better hope that its developers can come up with truly innovative games utilizing those wacky controllers, or my guess is this will be the last new Nintendo console released in the US.
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