September 14th

[Paco]

That has to be one of the craziest statements I've ever heard. It's not like the Wii is a previous-gen console with games being sold at budget prices. And development may be easier for developers in terms of the architecture, but they still have to develop unique ways to control their games. It's not like they can churn out a Wii game in a month compared to 6 months - 1 year for a PS3/360 game. I have an HDTV, but I'm not paying $60 for games on 360 just because they look nicer. If the game is available for another system for $50 I don't think the better graphics are worth the extra $10.

It's the scope of the games. Nintendo said that they wanted to scale back and make games fun again, less complicated, so more people could play. There's also the fact that Nintendo was alarmed at the rising budget of video games and wanted to change that...that should lend itself to cheaper games, especially compared to the epic type games being released on 360/PS3. I'm not saying all games should be cheaper, but the simpler ones should. Something like Metroid Prime or Zelda justify a $50 or $60 price tag, but to know something simple like the new Warioware will be anything more than $30 is not cool.