When will the Wii get a price drop?

[SJGohan3972]

bdbdbd said:
There's also a possibility of price drop from only the price that Nintendo sells consoles to retailers, while the list price (sold to consumer) stays the same.
Someone might ask why would they do so, and it would be to get retailers to promote the Wii more. They would also expand to new stores, when retailers would see a new gap for profit. Basically this could equal a pricedrop, since retailers would make their own cuts and bundles.

But as for an official pricecut for consumer price, it's really hard to say and depends on Nintendos strategy how they decide to fight for the market share and how high they are willing to up the production.

Iwata has said that pricecut isn't expected before 2012, but i'd say it happens when Wii is manufactured more than 3,5M a month, which should be 2010 at latest.

 

 Accually if the media supervisor at my local Best Buy is to be believed then Nintendo has already cut the price of the Wii to the retailer and is the biggest margin item that Best Buy sells out of their media department (video games, movies, music, etc.) 

To answer the original question. I think there is a chance of a price drop around late Q3 or early Q4 of next year but I could also see Nintendo doing something like packaging motion plus and/or wii speak and/or another game (like wii sports 2, etc.) into the wii and keeping the $250 price point.