LordTheNightKnight said:
Pipedream24 said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
Pipedream24 said:
Nintendo could raise the price of the Wii to $299 and it would still fly off the shelves. They have done a masterful job of marketing and supply manipulation to create high demand for over 2 years now. Why cut the price when you're making money hand over fist at the current price?
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This is not oil. Supply manipulation doesn't work here.
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I didn't mean that in a bad way. Quite the opposite actually. Nintendo should teach a class on how to created demand for a product. |
It doesn't matter what you meant. It's still not what Nintendo did.
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Yes they did. They moved units over to Europe when the Euro was trading $1.50, shrinking the U.S. supply. Which in turn created higher demand in the U.S where it is still hard to find a Wii on the Store shelves. They could have allocated more units to the U.S but that would have been bad business.