6:48 PM on 10.26.2007
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Yahoo, via Next Gen, is reporting on some choice yet depressing words from Nintendo Prez Satoru Iwata revealing the company's current and near-future plans for their Wii console. Of very little interest to any of you -- we aren't huge in China -- is Nintendo's plans to launch the Wii in the Communist state in 2008. Iwata has stressed the company's intent to produce games specifically catering to that region, so expect motion controlled Tibetan oppression minigames and the addition of one billion Miis.
More importantly to those of us not living in the PRC is Iwata's declaration that "We're absolutely not considering a price cut" for the system. While the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 have both seen price cuts, Nintendo is still having issues meeting demand for the $250USD system, so dropping the price would seem anti-capitalist at best. That may be in keeping with their expansion into China, but I'm getting tired of making jokes based on the thin premise that China -- a country whose socio-economic climate is more intricate than their fine silk garments -- is still fueled by the blood of the proletariat. Such claims would be overly simplistic and while superficially accurate, simply do not express the complexities of a country so intent on becoming the next economic, technological and governmental world power.
No, there was no hidden joke there.
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I think it'll be a really close one, a real nail biter!
Expect Politician torture tutorials & China Propaganda to plague Chinese Wii developers for the Wii!
That's my 2¢.
Somehow I don't see many Chinese buying Wii's if they can buy Chinese Vii's for cheaper. That and the fact that it doesn't come from the Raper of Nanjing.
And, there won't be any games released for the Chinese version. There will probally be three small puzzle games "released" as Nintendo did with the iQue DS, but no one will ever actually see those official games anywhere.
That's when Uncle Mao steps in to take send em back home. Oh yeah, and somehow kill thousands of political dissidents in the process.
Wii is putting out the mario Beijing Olympics game....which would be a perfect box set for CHina. Their decision not to not lower the price, especially for CHina....is because the only money they'll make is off of the hardware, since all systems will eventually get moded for playing bootlegs.
As long as bootlegs cost 6 RMB per disc(around $0.80) then consols will always fail in CHina and Southeast Asia. I bought my 360 in Bangkok,Thailand. It was close to impossible NOT to find a consol that wasn't moded!
there is alot of people in china, but there is a very small percentage that is interested in consoles.
they aren't gonna make any money selling in China anyway, the market is already oversupplied with Wii.