The Official May 2009 NPD Thread (Data at 6:30 PM EST)

[Squilliam]

Soriku said:

Squilliam said:

They don't really follow the price cut phillosphy, they said they wanted to wean consumers off the idea that the consoles price would come down. Also their next generation console would probably kill off sales for the Wii unless it was at a really low price.

I still don't see the point in killing it off when it will still be popular enough then to keep it living and cheap enough. It doesn't make much sense. And it's likely that Wii buyers then wouldn't buy their next console until later (alternatively, until it's cheaper).

But if its cheaper then it could steal sales from the more expensive Wii HD or next or whatever. If say the Wii was $129 and the Wii HD is $249 there isn't really much difference in price. Also the cheaper Wii could steal sales from the more expensive Wii and cost them money.