Dell Taking Wii U Preorders for $459.99
Unfortunately, this Wii U preorder deal has no guarantee of getting to you by launch day.
With the North American Wii U launch just a few days away, it's nigh impossible to get your hands on a Wii U preorder. In fact, it's been nigh impossible to find a Wii U preorder for weeks—just about every retailer that was holding Wii U preorders ran out of basic and deluxe preorders in just a few days.
Dell recently just launched its own Wii U preorder deal. Unfortunately, for those looking for the cheaper, basic edition are out of luck. This pre-order deal is only for the deluxe edition, which ships with Just Dance 4 and Madden NFL '13.
The only drawbacks are that this edition is $459.99—a bit pricier than the $349.99 you'd pay for the regular deluxe edition—and that it's highly unlikely that you'll get your console on launch day. Dell's website claims that the console would ship in one to two weeks. Still, if the Wii U shortage ends up being as bad as the one that the Wii experienced, then paying just a little more to get the console a tad late seems preferable to waiting in long lines with no guarantee of getting the product.
The Wii U is set to launch on November 18th for the U.S. and November 30th for Europe.
Underpowered, overpriced, gimmicky hardware, CHECK!
In all seriousness, I am definitely not a buyer on day one. If the games prove to be fun and 3rd party support is good, then this may be a buy sometime next year or when the price drops.
But this thing was outdated the moment it was conceived.
Glad I reserved mine months ago.
its really about the exclusives, zombie u sounded fun, till i found out it a rouge like on easymode
what you have to look at is
1 - online play, if nintendo wants to be #1 world wide even without a gimick, they have to invest in makeing that aspect of the console great.
2 - how it stacks up next to other consoles, really the wii u, unless they royally screw it up, is set to be the way you play console games.
Non-starter here...
umm No this isa Next gen system it has 2gb of ram 1gb for the GPU that is said to be a E6760 and 1gb of ram for everything else it has a much newer but clocked slower CPU Generation then that of the 360
Ther is no way this would only be a Wii 1.5 since norre a slightly faster nor anything of the Generation of the Xbox 360 could handle what the Wii U is doing that is rendering full 1080p 60FPS on most to all 3rd party games as well as Rendering a 2nd screen @ 720p or close to the Wii U gamepad has no CPU or GPU the main console does all the work all Wireless so yea no a Wii 1.5 nore 360 based hardware could pull that off
it has good 3rd party support most of the launch games are from 3rd party most of the launch windows games are from 3rd party
umm No as of june this year the Wii sold 86.7 Million units so i would say your wrong it seems people did pay attention to it .
Wii U offers a heck of allot more then just gaming tho
here
http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/12/nintendo-wii-u-remote-control/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO46aQU6EFg
My bet is that it sells like hot cakes for a year, and then languishes through the rest of the cycle. I hope the best for them though... they have not had a home run release on hardware in a looooong time.
The Wii U has 50 Launch window games to be relased far more then the Wii when it was launched far more then the 360 and PS3 when they was launched but has 23 launch day games some good ones most 3rd party
as i siad above the Wii U is siad to now have an E6760 GPU from AMD that has 1gb of Ram decicated to it while the system has 1GB of ram just for itself and otehr stuff Game developers already loveing the system and have been and are doing some great thing with the Wii U gamepad that is very light wight and functional
Also Wii U has amny other things it does such as i posted above Nintendo TV
Also look at games like Zombie U and Call of duty black ops 2 in how they make use of the Wii U gamepad
And people gobble it up.
I guess there is no confusion as to why the price can be so high eh?
Since casting a major shadow of disappointment and frustration over our xmas holiday with the awkward and frustrating Skyward Sword, the Wii continues to sit on our tv stand collecting dust, as it does for the tens of millions of other people around the world who still somehow continue to defend it as this "great system" that somehow never gets played.
I think the math would more accurately be Gamecube 2.25. Stuff like that is multiplicative, not additive...
Who has a fat gen1 PS3 running at home?
Who has a 360 gen1 running at their homes?
I don't know about you, but you all can talk sh1t about Nintendo while they're hassle free with what they give and having the most reliable systems for decades. Also, their first party games ARE worthy of the console by themselves. If you guys are too "hip and cool hardcore gamers" to enjoy Mario Party or Smash Bros, get off our Nintendo lawn.
Cheers!
And yet Nintendo is losing money.
Doesn't matter how many consoles you sell if no one buys the games.