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| DarkZero 1243th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):Game Boy Micro may be more expensive th" , posted Sat 28 May 20:44
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GameIndustry.biz has an interview with the head of Nintendo of Europe's marketing. In it, the price for the Game Boy Micro is addressed.
Does anyone else get the feeling that his real response should be, "I'm the head of Nintendo of EUROPE, not JAPAN. I tread water until they announce a price point and I convert it into Euros."
Nintendo's American and European divisions always seem a lot more outspoken that Sony's or Microsoft's respective divisions, but I always get the feeling that they're just pretending to matter. The guys from Nintendo of America always talk like they're running the company, but then they come to E3 and tell us that Nintendogs will be as big a hit (no, BIGGER!!!) in America as it in Japan, a country where far fewer people actually own their own dogs.
As for the GBM specifically, I always imagined it as a $50 impulse buy item. Something to buy for little kids that can actually be replaced in a timely matter when they annihilate it on the schoolyard. I can't imagine anyone paying more than $100 for a new Gameboy that's smaller, more difficult to hold, and doesn't have the nifty clamshell protecting its scratch-tacular screen.
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| Dr Baghead 3456th Post
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| "Re(2):Game Boy Micro may be more expensive th" , posted Sun 29 May 03:36
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As for the GBM specifically, I always imagined it as a $50 impulse buy item. Something to buy for little kids that can actually be replaced in a timely matter when they annihilate it on the schoolyard. I can't imagine anyone paying more than $100 for a new Gameboy that's smaller, more difficult to hold, and doesn't have the nifty clamshell protecting its scratch-tacular screen.
You'd think a $50 impulse buy would be the way to go, especially with games at $24 or less, because I'm sure people would see "Hey this is $50, I could buy this and SIX games for the price of one PSP!!" and it would sell like mad... but this is a company who expected people to spend $20 for Mario Bros. and Metroid even though both could be obtained FOR FREE in other games.
They're probably gonna try and sell at $120 to people who just GOT to have the lastest useless technology because it's the future and so sleek, I mean, people bought f'ing Segways... SEGWAYS... I don't think Nintendo won't find a market for an over priced GBA SP that's not as nice if they sell it as "high-tech", "sexy", "cutting edge", and "you can totally be an elitist gamer since you can play Mario 1 and Link on this thing, so you can totally show it people at parties and be all 'Halo's garbage... I'm old skool, check it! I got Link, Mario, and Contra!' and the women will be all over you for it!! Since playing old out dated games makes you better then people with PS2's! You're retro, keepin' it real, and they're posers!!"
I saw this guy on the commuter train once, he had an iPod clasped on his belt, he talking on one of those high end cel-phone via his hands free unit, and had an MFin' Segway I'm sure he'd be all about $150 GBASPM's that make someone look cool/a good target to mug.
Blanka and Dan make for a most excellent tag image (yeah still not funny)
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