When Will Wii be $150

[LordTheNightKnight]

Joelcool7 said:

LuisPacheco said:

When they announce the Wii 2 and Wii redesign after at E3.

If Wii2 is announced this year which I think is 90% for sure, then their will be no Wiidesign. The Wii as is is profitable and they can't really make it any smaller. Adding HD is out of the question and Nintendo has said several times that the Wii doesn't need more memory. The WiiHD or redesign is something Mr.Pachter came up with on his own.

LordTheNightKnight said:

The next system is most likely. Nintendo didn't overprice the Wii in the first place (despite what the haters and cheapskates keep insisting), the other guys went with systems that were flat out too expensive even at a loss, and had to keep cutting to stay competative. Nintendo just needs games to stay competative.

Prior to E3 2006 EAGames and Sega both leaked prices for Wii. Both companies alledged that the console cost 70-100$ to manufacture. Now keep in mind the GameCube was profitable at 100USD, the Wii's hardware other then the Wiimote would not have cost all that much more then a GameCube.I also saw on G4TechTV shortly after Wii was released that a group of hardware specialists had taken the Wii apart and apraised it around 100USD.

Nintendo could have sold the Wii at 150$ I'm pretty sure of it. They would have also turned a profit. So was Nintendo being greedy by over pricing the device? No, they weren't being greedy they were not expecting the Wii to be as popular as it was. Nintendo GameCube while profitable sold only what 24-million units and for Nintendo to maintain high profit margins and allow for future price cuts they had to set the price higher. Nintendo also knew their competition would be pricing their systems fairly more expensive.

If Nintendo had priced Wii at 150$ would they have sold anymore units then they did at 250$? No they wouldn't, Nintendo did not expect to see huge sales. Look at what Iwata was saying at TGS 2005 he said that Nintendo was prepared to support the console with first party titles alone if third parties did not jump on board. Nintendo was so pessimistic that they thought they might be the only ones supporting their hardware.

The fact that the Wii sold so much was not predicted by Nintendo. I believe Nintendo expected GameCube like sales and that is why they priced the hardware that high. The price is reasonable when compared to past Nintendo consoles as well.

 

Now back to the topic. I think with the new console set to be announced this year. Wii will take a 25-50$ price cut August or September. Alongside a strong line-up of Nintendo titles. I expect Nintendo to announce 3-4 new games for Wii at E3. Nintendo will hope that the price cut and new software will be enough to bring the Wii's sales back up at least one last winter. Though I'm not sure that will be good enough to beat the 360 over all in 2010.

Um, that leak was proven off by at least $40 by a later iSupply report, that did not even include the controllers, which would have raised the manufacturing price even more (those accelerometers were still costly back then, especially since there was one on each controller). So you're "pretty sure" of something that is objectively false.