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Sheer business incompetence. This isn’t going to increase Wii sales longterm.

Wii sales were already going back up and steady due to Wii Sports Resort. Now every ‘forum dweller’ and ‘analyst’ are going to say it is going up due to ‘price cut’.

And Wii will always be perceived to be in the ‘Red Ocean’ now.

If a price cut were to come, it should have occurred after the holidays.

Nintendo has really been making some piss poor business mistakes since 2008 (which is why there have been no new articles). First, there was the user generated content ‘direction’ the company decided to embark on. Now, there is the price cut which isn’t going to boost interest in the system.

What is going to happen is people are going to sit back and wait for more price cuts.

A good question for a journalist to ask a Nintendo exec next time is why Nintendo is diverting from the Blue Ocean Strategy. Do they still intend to follow it? Another question to ask is how is this price cut supposed to increase value in a declining core market?

Why doesn’t Nintendo cut the price of the DS? It makes as much sense as cutting the price of the Wii.

-_-; another one of his nerd rants

jeez guys why do you care about this dude ?

Yep, that's not surprising. Companies especially Nintendo have to blow it some time. This is repeated throughout video game history.

After reading his article about the contenf from the past games i dont know whether to agree with him or not. Im just going to wait it out and see if they will drop the price, which i believe they wont.

I agree. There's no reason for a price cut unless it is coupled with something new; ie. A New Super Mario Brothers pack in with Wii Sports and perhaps a new colour mixed with a cut to $199 would almost make me want to buy a second Wii. The pricecut to $199 might not even be required, but it is something which may benefit the new deals to increase the perception of value/bang for your buck.

I feel that Nintendo would probably be fine as is, but if they want to generate new hysteria, something new is required. The Wii package is unchanged in 3 years, it's not new anymore.

I agree it should have come after the holidays, other than this, this guy is a quack.

well i still don't know who the fuck is that guy. anyone care to explain ?
is he Iwata's lost twin ?

Odd that we're in the same frame of mind regarding this. I don't think he ever alluded to the opinion that a price-cut should come after the holidays.

This might help:

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=2379

I still agree with him, the Wii price is just fine whoever thinks it needs a price cut, is because they think it isnt worth the price, but i think it is worth the price and it getting more value as the library grows