Nintendo warns software trade prices may also rise

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trestres said:

BTFeather55 said:

If they raise the prices of their software and consoles, they could create a situation where the Wii is selling no better than the Gamecube. Part of the reason why the Wii and its games have been so popular is their price in comparison to what is out there.  However, if worldwide, they raise the price of the to $275.00 and the price of its games to $60.00, then they will really shoot themselves in the foot.  I can see the Wii weathering the storm of raising the console price to $275.00 because demand for the system has always been higher.  However, if they raise the price of their games to $60.00 that could cause them real difficulties because there have only been very few Wii games worth paying that amount of money for (SMG, SSBB, TP but certainly not Carnival Games and most of the party games) especially in comparison to what is on the HD machines.  Talk about looking for ways to kill your marketshare. 

 

Yeah, that's why the 360 is selling million every week there.

 

      The reason the 360 doesn't sell as much as the Wii is because of the different sku's.  People don't buy the $199.99 model because they know it is a gimped model.  And they don't buy the pro model at $299.99 because it is more expensive than the Wii.  Now, it is true that the 360 sells games at the $60.00 mark.  However, that is because the vast majority of the games on the 360 are better in many ways than the vast majority of Wii games.  There have really only been three Wii games that have sold in these grand numbers that people talk about (four if you count Wii Sports but I have boycotted counting Wii Sports as one of these titles even though it has sold 43 million copies almost all of those have come as a result of it being in the Wii's box and very little due to any real merits of the game itself; look at it this way, 43 million Wii Sports have sold that were in the Wii's box; however, 48 million Wii's have sold that means that apparently 5 million copies of Wii Sports that weren't bundled failed to sell to keep up with the pace of the Wii).  Wii Play sold because people could get a free controller with it.  Wii Fit because of endorsements from the media and fitness clubs.  Heck, those three titles aren't even real games.  Mario Kart sold because its Mario Kart, but that was really the only one of the Wii's real games to sell all that exceptionally well, and it hasn't been picked up by 32 million of the Wii's users as of yet.  Then, there is a huge gap between the 4th and 5th place Wii games in terms of sales of about six million copies.

      When you get down to the Wii's best game Super Mario Galaxy, even though it costs ten dollars less, it still trails the 360's signature game which costs $10 more by a million in sales despite the Wii's seventeen million more install base than the 360.

     As a matter of fact, despite being better games many of the 360's games don't sell that well at the $60.00 price tag.

Wii games like Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, Carnival Games, Wii Play, Wii Music, and Wii Sports Resort would not sell at a $60.00 price tag.