360 was launched 2nd December last year though yeah ? I'm sure in erm ... 10 months from the Wii's release it will be cheaper and shops will have there games reduced. If you don't want to pay the prices of things now you only have to wait I'd guess between 3 to 10 months for a price drop and internet shops having them at a reduced cost. As I said if you want something the day it's released you will be paying top dollar.
As I remember it Nintendo said it was going to be cheaper than other next gen consoles, game production would be quicker than other next gen console, and it was going to bring the focus back on "fun over graphics". And to my mind it has still done all that, it is cheaper, has a large list of release titles and certain looks more fun.
The peripheral stuff though, from dvd players, music playing, photo showing and the like are just gimicks though on any console that I've ever had, you go "Ohhhh", you fiddle, you use it maybe once and then you use it for what it was made ... playing games. For example
PS/2 - Crappiest dvd player evah, couldn't even get lip-syncing right
X-box - music player .... once you ignored the fact the noise of the x-box powered on was often enough to deafen you
And I'm sure when it comes out
Wii Photo - Looks cool, fun, but the camera will still be plugged into the PC cos there it can be viewed, edited, e-mailed on, put on-line to embarass or to get print outs.
As far as backtracking, if you listen to the hype prior and to some extent during E3 you might have imagined it would be cheaper, but as far as I'm concerned 300 quid gets me a whole lot more than it would with other next gen consoles, so I don't feel they did.
The only thing in the whole Nintendo thing that has made me go "WTF" was the news that the Wii won't support dvd playback out the box, but it you buy something else it will do .... which just made me think "something like a dvd player perhaps ?" We got out silent multi-region cdr/dvdr/mp3 player dvd player for 24 quid from tesco's why would I want a crappier equivelant in a console (but I'll admit the PS/2 dvd player left me feeling jaded about such things). Though I suppose for a kid maybe it's a cheaper way of parents having a dvd player in there room.
P.S Adding the wi-fi adaptor was to me very practical as we are wi-fi here and I don't want cables all over the shop for the chinchilla's and/or Rosie the puppy to munch on, infact when I first heard the 360's "standard" wi-fi adaptor was to become optional it started the ball rolling on my dislike of the 360.
Anway now to go drink more cold and flu and take some more neurofen. Sodding Flu