Nintedo to cut -scratch that- RAISE Wii Price!

[Pristine20]

famousringo said:

Pristine20 said:

SuperDave said:
It sucks, but Nintendo shouldn't have to eat economic factors out of their control. About a week after I bought a computer in October the price of the parts I bought went up about $250 total. Console's shouldn't be exempt from the situation.

The unfortunate thing here is that Microsoft and Sony have such deep pockets that they seem to be willing to eat losses in their game divisions whereas Nintendo can't exactly fall back on it's other sources of income since the gaming industry is all it has. It ends up making Nintendo look bad for trying to make a buck.

 

Don't know about that part. Whats sony falling back on nowadays? Yet..they haven't bumped the price. It really seems like greed on ninty's side honestly. It's not like they're taking a loss, it that the profits aren't as high as they used to be yet everyone ignores this little fact LMAO.

So you think Nintendo should just use profits from other regions to subsidize losses in the UK? I don't think that strategy will pay off in the long run.

I agree that Sony doesn't have a money tree they can fall back on right now, and I think that Sony could use a little greed right now. They aren't running a charity. And if the competition is also raising prices, that seems like a good excuse for them to follow suit and lose less money.

The only problem is that Sony is more concerned about competing with MS than they are about competing with Nintendo, and MS hasn't raised prices because they aren't feeling the yen pressure the Japanese companies are. Sony's position really stinks right now.

You misunderstand. Ninty is not taking losses fom the UK. The problem here is that their profits there have greatly reduced. They have high profit margins.

I do agree with you however that sony's position stinks because I remember when there was a rumor of sony raising prices, the bashers couldn't wait to take turns.