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Wii games to retail at around £40 and PS3 games £50

by Steven Williamson on 31 May 2006, 18:06

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Wii & PS3

According to French gaming site, Jeux Video, the prices of a number of Sega games have been revealed today for Wii and PS3.

Now, the google translator is not the best and we don't speak French but, it appears that the site is reporting that Atari have let prices slip for the Benelux region, which consists of Belgium, Luxemburg and the Netherlands.

The site appears to be reporting the prices as fact, although we currently have no confirmation if the prices are true or not. Jeux Video say that Sonic The Hedgehog will retail at €67.99, World Snooker Championship 2007 (Sony PS3) €73.99, Sonic Wild Fire (Nintendo Wii) - €59.99 and Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (Nintendo Wii) - €59.99.

We'd guess, using the Google Euro converter (isn't Google great!), that, according to Jeux Games, PS3 games will retail at approximately £50 in the U.K and Wii games at around £40.

This is pure rumour as far as we're concerned, until we hear it straight from the horse's mouth.

Source: Jeux Games


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Posted by Parm - Wed 31 May 2006 18:24
I think it'll be really important to the PS3 to price the games well. Anymore than £50 and it'll be even tougher to warrant the PS3's huge costs.
Posted by directhex - Wed 31 May 2006 18:34
psst: they're making it up
Posted by Xaneden - Wed 31 May 2006 18:46
Unlikely to be verifiable and consequently, of any substance. Still, I think the prices are probably right, though maybe with a leway of 10 pound either way?
Posted by RavenNight - Wed 31 May 2006 18:49
I thought this was VERY interesting:

http://news.spong.com/article/10137?cb=671

Damn I hope they get the price of the main box down that low.
Posted by bsodmike - Wed 31 May 2006 19:03
Well in all fairness, the Wii isn't ‘cutting edge’ as far as the tech goes, so it would be a bad move to price it over 130quid tbh…

…and as far as the controller goes, it's really a different ‘twist’ on LOS input devices, the only difference is that they have a tilt (gyroscopic) and possibly two orthagonal accelarometers, but again, this information is relayed back to the Wii over iR.

Note: My buddy was like “its more than tilt isnt it?”…“they know where they are in space and stuff”. Good point, but my answer was, “i.e. the double differential of acceleration is displacement…” so if you differentiate acceleration you get velocity, differetiate it again, and you are left with displacement. I concluded with “also just by having 2 of them orthagonally they can cover the whole 2pi(radians) of movment just by taking the resultant vector of acceleration between the two sensors (say Ax and Ay) heh”.

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