Wii no longer up YoY in 2009 compared to 2008

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NJ5 said:

Squilliam said:

famousringo said:
So basically, you're giving yourself a pat on the back for realizing that the Wii had a barrage of massive system sellers in Q2 '08, and no corresponding software lineup in Q2 '09, while betting that some people wouldn't be able to catch that fact.

Oh, you are so clever.

Your sarcasm hurts Tim. If you don't who Tim is, then that hurts me.

Anyway, why use sarcasm. Since he picked up on something then theres something to talk about with the Wiis sales like Will they get a price cut?

 

I think we should be talking about whether WM+ and accompanying games will be big system sellers... because Nintendo won't even think about cutting prices before seeing the effect of those.

 

 

I think a price cut is likely in Japan, it's very unlikely in the rest of the world except if it was to happen very late in the financial year ( February 2010?)).

The reason being that Nintendo forecasts identical revenue with higher profit margin for the fiscal year 2010 and price cut tend to drop the profit margin ( that and most likely less Wii Fit will be sold in 2010 than in 2009 and it's probably one of their other high profit margin product..). Especially when you see they forecast their marketing budget will increase slightly too.

 

You can't cut price, increase marketing and end up making higher profit margins...