Ive come up with the best reason to drop price and as soon as possible. To give MS and S motion controls a wake up call and prove that the Nintendo wiimote is still capable of finding mainstream adopters while increasing market share for their particular tech.
Thats why.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
