Kyros on 23 August 2008
They certainly could have charged $400 until they exhausted that demand, then cut the prices to $300 and exhausted that demand, and they always would have been able to supply them."
That is simply stupid. A 400$ Wii wouldn't have sold. There are two things to pricing supply and demand which would clearly have supported 400$ prices and the perception of fairness by customers. And this would have been too much.
If you add a couple of wiimotes and nunjucks for the main attraction of the wii (playing with friends) you are at 400 anyway.
Besides a 400$ price tag could have killed the Wii before the hype train got going and raising the price after the success was evident would have been catastrophic for image.
No they should simply have upped the supply faster. The Wii is not exactly fusion power technology. Man this Pachter guy doesn't know what hes talking about.
