Current Events > The Nintendo Wii will debut on November 19th for $249.99.

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https://www.theeagleonline.com/article/2006/09/wii-date-and-price-unveiled

eww motion controls? this will tank

I hope they add Sonic to Brawl. With Snake in, I don't see why they wouldn't.

Mega Man as well.

Looks like a toy for babies. Adults will never play this thing

It'll flop. Gamers want hardcore gritty serious games, not casual party crap.

Bundling it with some basic-ass sports game instead of a Mario game is going to be a disaster.

Wii? More like Wii will never play it.

The system will be bundled with Wii Sports

https://fortune.com/1990/11/05/can-nintendo-keep-winning/

NINTENDO is the shogun of the home videogame, a phenomenon that has captivated millions of children and adults in America and Japan. The Kyoto company's sales have multiplied nearly tenfold in as many years, to some $2.5 billion in the year that ended in March. Estimated profits: an electric $350 million. Toy industry analysts are saying that this Christmas could be Nintendo's biggest ever in the U.S., which accounts for two-thirds of videogame demand. Even in the face of a slowing economy, U.S. sales are expected to exceed last year's by 30% or more. Small wonder that Nintendo shares have been as hot on the Tokyo stock exchange as its games in toy stores. While the market has plunged 40% so far this year, Nintendo is up 63%. Helped by the dollar's fall, the company's ADRs, which trade over the counter in the U.S., have risen 80%. To judge by its recent market capitalization of $19 billion, investors figure the company is worth more than Sony or Nissan Motor. (FORTUNE has used estimates for annual sales and profits because Nintendo recently changed its fiscal year from August to March without restating historical results. For the seven-month period ended in March, it reported $208 million of profit on $1.5 billion in sales.) Nintendo owes its success to its powerful products and its viselike grip on the market. The company, which supplies all the hardware and software necessary to transform the family TV into an interactive electronic playground, accounts for more than 80% of worldwide sales of videogames. As one out of every four families in the U.S. knows, it's easy to get hooked. You connect the Nintendo Entertainment System, a phone-book-size gray plastic console that retails for $99, by a wire to the back of the TV. (If you can't master this detail, your child surely can.) Next, snap in a game program, which takes the form of a reusable plastic cartridge stuffed with chips. Finally, switch on your TV, take up one of the system's push-button controllers, and play. Nintendo offers more than 200 titles, on themes ranging from baseball to medieval warfare. The games, which retail for $50 and up, are more whimsical than the early shoot-'em-up offerings of video arcades. Super Mario Brothers, the all-time best-selling series of games (39 million copies), involves quests through fantasy realms by an Italian plumber who can transform himself into a raccoon. So powerful is Mario's charm that he has become an international cultural icon. In a recent poll of U.S. schoolchildren, he proved more popular than Mickey Mouse. Game industry experts -- some of them Nintendo addicts -- believe the company could be the next Disney. JUST AS MICKEY MOUSE helped pioneer the animated picture in the 1930s, so might Mario help establish a new medium called interactive entertainment. Says Jim Willcox, a columnist for Toy and Hobby World magazine: ''We are seeing the rapid evolution of play, from board games to videogames to electronic games in polygraphic forms.'' Already Nintendo's competitors are experimenting with powerful combinations of computers, laser disks, and high-definition TV screens, as well as games that use human actors rather than cartoon characters. Possible in this decade: videogames in which the viewer manipulates his own image, in effect becoming simultaneously director and star. To reach that bright future, however, Nintendo must face a business challenge that would daunt even Mario. Its games are in so many homes that demand is nearly saturated; now the company must unlock new markets in order to thrive. Tokyo security analysts are bullish about its prospects -- for example Mark Yim, a Japan-based analyst for Baring Securities, projects 28% annual growth for the next four years. But in the U.S., Nintendo is haunted by the ghost of Atari Inc. That pioneer of videogame hardware and software (remember Pong?) ballooned into a $2-billion-a-year giant, then collapsed when children became bored with its wares. Cautions toy industry analyst Sean McGowan: ''We don't know yet what's different between Nintendo and Atari.'' Few analysts predict that Nintendo will crash, but several think that this could be its last year of big growth. For example, Thomas Kully of the Chicago brokerage William Blair projects that Nintendo's U.S. sales will go into recession, drooping 10% in 1991 and 7% in 1992. Among the doomsayers is James Chanos, a New York money manager who has sold the stock short and stands to gain if it goes down. He calls Nintendo a fad that has run its course.

https://boards.theforce.net/threads/decipher-game-style-not-dead-yet.5476690/

My point is they're using the success of Pokemon to (1) convince LFL to give'm the license, and (2) promote themselves as surperior card makers. Interesting that they fail to mention the failure of Pokemon -- in a long term since.

it has zero to do with Pokemon. Lucas owns 10% of Hasbro which own Wizards as a independent subsidiary. Pokemon's success or failure is based on its namebrand and not the rules or wizard's marketing. Pokemon was a fad that has run its course.

This is true, however it did not stop wotc from using the game's success as part of their bidding package for the license. In plain terms, wotc said "We can give you another Pokemon." And that's just what they will do. Give them a kid-based game, with kid-based mechanics, and it will last only a couple years. If "Star Wars" turns into a fad, we know who to blame.

This console is going to be the biggest flop in all of gaming!

Looks like a DILDO get the PSTriple, BALLIN

I bought one with my graduation money as opposed to using that money for like, yknow, anything related to college lol

I then straight traded it for a WiiU a few years later.

hyperskate65 posted...

I bought one with my graduation money as opposed to using that money for like, yknow, anything related to college lol

I then straight traded it for a WiiU a few years later.

Time travel confirmed

Who cares about this shit. It will be quickly ignored and bomb since actual gamers will have no use for it. Also it has no games on launch!......nobody will care to play twilight princess on the wii when they can just use their gamecubes to play this. Look at this sorry list! (just ignore the fact that I can see into the future about this Wii U and switch thing. Sounds fake as hell anyway):

https://i.redd.it/ka49yasvesly.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/940bcaa5.jpg

Pretty sure itll be sold out for a week or 2 but anyone who wants one by Christmas will be fine