Wii no longer up YoY in 2009 compared to 2008

[Squilliam]

famousringo 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?

 

 

The only things Nintendo has done to stimulate demand so far is release games and release peripherals. For whatever reason, they've lapsed on the regular releases of games and peripherals, so they're not going to make any moves until they see how Wii Sports Resort, Monster Hunter 3, etc. perform.

And if those fail to stimulate the market, I think they'll look at new SKUs with redesigns and/or bundles before they cut price.

They've set themselves up with an increase in production to current levels, if they cannot maintain demand at that level then the only thing which would work is a price cut. Im sure they will wait, but this is the level that sales really have to be maintained at, so a price cut would probably be the last resort since they have spent so much time/effort expanding production to these levels.