Nintendo can, whenever they feel is necessary, lower the pricepoint of the Wii...

Why?! Because Nintendo earns money for every system sold. In comparison: Sony losses 200 US$ for every sold PS3.

At the moment, sales of Wii are going VERY GOOD! With 6.6 mil worldwide and waiting for NPD March figures (Wii could reach 7 mil within a few days).... In comparison, PS3 has (only?!) sold 3.15 million units... Which, in comparison, is not much.

However, i'm convinced (well, not convinced but i'd guess PS3 will pick up in sales in and after the holiday season of 07) But Nintendo has some nice games coming too, and will the gap be Too Great to close?!

If/When PS3 sales pick up in speed however, Nintendo has ONE BIG trumpcard, pricepoint.

They could lower price to 200 US$ whenever they want. And if Sony decides to lower PS3 premium to 500 US$ They are starting a pricewar they can't win...

Sony fans are saying, wait for PS3 to lower in price, the point is; Sony will lose MORE money per sold PS3 unit and Nintendo could react ANYTIME, even to a point of 150 US$, which 'theoratically' makes Wii invincible (ow wouldn't that day be nice!)...

So, Nintendo could still deliver Sony a killer blow, even when PS3 sales were to pick up in speed...

What are your thoughts?

Edit: I'd like to see what HUS has to say about this (Plz, not some stupid answer like: PS3 is better, no matter what and then give the argument 'You'll see')...

Hus is going to say something like

OmG wtf are you taking aboutfgk pstriple has games omg wii doesnt.., wii is just crap hardware cant play any games only for kiddies nobodys gonna buy i in few months omg you noob

i however, agree with you , completely =) 

I'd say that when the games pick up, Gamers wouldn't need Wii Sports to convince them to buy the Wii, so Nintendo could drop the bundle. Or if volume grows fast enough, Nintendo could drop the price, with Wii Sports, to $200.

 Yet the good news for Sony is that the volume of the PS3 is growing as well, and much faster than initially thought, so the costs will be going down, but it may still be some time before Sony can do a price drop without taking another loss.

I dont really think that a price drop would affect the Wii sales as much as PS3 price drop. I might be crazy but that is what I think. Most people can afford the Wii and not that many people are waiting for a price drop, but the majority are waiting for the ps3 to drop. The price war is really between the 360 and the PS3.

Of course Sony will not win a price war, despite plenty of people saying "I'll get a PS3 once $XXX is knocked off". Sony will try (as previous) to force technology forward. Personally I think the PS3 will develop solid hardware sales once better software is available for it. The Wii I feel is riding on a hi with it's sports/bundle pack but I think the games line up for the Wii will decide it's fate in these next 6 months to the year. I have a sneaky feeling it will be hot for christmas 2007 and then blow it self out. Of course I could be wrong...

I think its just the opposite ,most people that can afford the Wii can afford it right now so its demand is about as good as it will get .Some killer games (that I doubt it will have ,at least in comparision with the others ) can help for sure but not a lot of people are holding down for the machine to drop its price ...a price drop from 250 to 200 or 150 is not that important .

At the same time the PS3 is expensive but can reduce costs fast (Sony being the manufacturer of many components and closing deals of production with others enterprises as the recent ones ) and if and when it drops the price significantly it will attract a lot of gamers that right now are playing the waiting game .Besides shops have a minimum retail price beyond what its not profitable to stock the machines ,I would say thats 79 for hanhelds and 99 for home consoles .PS3 has a lot more margin to drop the price that Wii .Couple that with killer games ,Home and the assumption by the gamers community that the free online saves money and the PS3 can return in force (not that it is doing badly right now ) again .

 you have no idea how absolutely wrong you are =)

I agree. Anything below $199 won't make a difference in most markets.

I don't agree one single bit concerning dropping the price of the WII. What's the use of cutting the price of a console which is already the cheapest, is so high demanding that the console is sold out almost everwhere, demands would only be higher then. Plus only more complaints of people that the console isn't available. Price reduction is only appropiate for consoles from which the demand has dropped.

I can see this going back to the argument of 'PS3 has a bigger price to play with and reduce compared to the Wii'.

Well I'm not going to start that argument again!