Nintendo: Why the Wii Won't Get a Price Cut

[LordTheNightKnight]

Pipedream24 said:

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? 

 

This is not oil. Supply manipulation doesn't work here.

 

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.

 

 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. 

 

The system was selling out in the US well before that, so that doesn't really prove anything.