September 14th

[A Black Falcon]

ABF/ 50 bucks for wii sports seems overpriced, yes. But you're telling me you didn't like Super Punch Out? Or Mario Baseball? Or the bowling minigames in Monkeyball? It's Nintendo, and the games were built from Miyamoto and his team. As it is, quick pick up and play games each using different modes of the wiimote with multiplayer sounds fun to me. The bowling game has you holding the wiimote tyo your chest, then swinging back and out while letting go of the B button on back to launch the ball, you can even spin the wiimote at your wrist to add spin to the ball. No more goofey charge meters! If you want less power behind the ball, throw lighter! I cant wait to try it out.

I've never played Punch-Out, as far as I can remember, and have definitely never played any of the Mario Sports games... as for Monkey Ball, I rented it a few times (the first one), but that's a bit different, and I didn't spend that much time with the minigames...

Also, I didn't know the 360 controllers were so expensive. The good news is that the wiimote just uses AA batteries and doesn't have charger kits (not from first party anyway). And atleast we have the choice to opt for the attachment at a later time. Though I was just thinking about those racing games coming packed-in with the steering wheel attachment; They could pack-in the control stick attachment with a game too. Like when you buy red steel it comes with a control stick attachment. Its blind guessing but I like it.

No, the X360 Wireless controller uses AA batteries too -- it just makes a whole lot more sense to use the rechargable battery, which quickly becomes cheaper than constantly buying batteries... we know nothing about equivilant Wiimote products, so the full price comparison isn't possible yet.

imo, the pack-in should have been Mario Galaxy. But that would take ALOT of sales away from Nintendo, especially in light of the recent sales the DS recieved because of NSMB. So I understand, but still. SNES came with Mario World and that kicked ass, I mean my ass still hurts. The awesomeness of Mario included with a new system will probably never happen again in our lifetime. But i'll accept wiisports.

Yeah, it definitely should have been Mario, if there had to be a packin... it's too bad that it wasn't ready yet.

Super Paper Mario, now moved to Wii (along with DK Bongo Blast), would have been nice too... :D

My immediate reaction is that Nintendo is asking too much for everything. I expected a cheaper console, cheaper games, cheaper controller, cheaper virtual console...I'm gonna hold off on a Wii purchase until a good price drop occurs.

Cheaper games? You were expecting Nintendo to charge less than $50? Uh, that wasn't a very realistic hope given that they have said several times that $50 is what their game prices were going to be, I'm pretty sure... other than that I agree that prices are too high though, obviously. I'll probably buy one anyway, but it definitely does make me think about it more skeptically than I would have if it had been $200.

The fears of Wii being vastly underpowered have been put to rest, the cost of the VC imo is spot on (5 bucks for an NES game with no blowing required! )

No. NES games in used games stores are maybe $5 at most... maybe. Most can be gotten for a lot less than that. SNES? Most titles sell for $5 at most... RPGs do cost more, though, so if those are cheap then some titles would be more affordable on VC. Not sure about N64 though, there are no really expensive games for that... I guess some sell for over $10, but still, looking at the overall price of buying a collection of games, in all three cases the fact that the vast majority of titles cost well under the VC prices more than makes up for the fact that certain popular titles will be cheaper on VC if they use those default prices, I think.

... that is, unless you're comparing VC prices to EBay... EBay is overpriced. :)

Oh, and do I really need to mention those classic game collections again? Under $30 for collections of usually like 8-20 old games? You pay far more per title for VC (or Xbox Live re-releases of old games that have been in collections -- Microsoft's pricing scheme is pretty similar in its overcharging for old titles. VC will just have more of them.)... it's paying for convenience I guess, but still, you pay far more.