The new cheaper Wii

which led? The ones at the bottom of the remote?

 

Nothing exciting.

 

I don't think they removed an LED, its just illuminated blue in that photo.

Also, notice how the box does not state 'new slimmer design' or the likes. Obviously just meant to be a quiet cost reducing measure. And that's fine.

 

I like the Wii and all, but who buys a £130 console just to play games which can be played on a console which can be bought for like £10 :S, seriosuly, I love my Wii but if I want to play actual gamecube games, I'll play them on a gamecube because if the laser in one of my gamecubes dies, It'll cost me all of about £10 to replace the entire console. If the laser on my Wii were to wear out on the other hand, £130 really isn't something I can afford to pay all at once.

 

can anyone explain to me how releasing a cheaper wii will help them sell the wii U less than a year later?

 

I guess the two consoles will not target the same market, the wii will now be extremely affordable, perfect gift for children and "not so rich" family.

WiiU will be sold at first for "hardcore" Nintendo fans, the one who buy the systems at day one, then if it doesn't sold well they'll end up doing the same thing as for the 3DS.

 

but do you think it will limit the market for those in between?

I spose either way nintendo gets the money

 

they are making a revisioned wii? i thought the wii 2 was being released this year? i have seen vidos of it even one where it was displayed at a convention

 

I guess you guys don't recall the NES "Top Loader" or the SNES "Mini" which came out after their successors were on the market. There is still life usually in the previous generation that supporting it a bit longer is smart. Except for the Xbox 1 which has legal deals that made MS quick to ditch it and get the 360 going.

 

Same thing with the Game Boy Micro.

 

This is news to me. What do you mean?

 

Basically MS was paying alot for the GPU in the Xbox from NVidia. It was a huge cost of each console and they had no control over it. MS was quick to ditch the old Hardware for a platform they had more control over.

Here is one news story but if you just google you can find things. http://articles.sfgate.com/2003-08-...vidia-corp-microsoft-and-nvidia-nvidia-shares