| JGarret said: famousringo, if that does happen I´ll be curious to read that Malstrom guy´s take on this...apparently he´s completely against a price cut because it goes against the Blue Ocean strategy and all that. What do you think?..can it damage Nintendo´s BOS? |
I don't think any business strategy exists in a vacuum. Nintendo might not be directly locking horns with the HD consoles, but it's still competing with them. And the fact is that both Sony and Microsoft have been putting serious price pressure on Nintendo, and Nintendo's system sellers haven't been quite as strong on the Wii as Nintendo expected they would be. All three hardware vendors like to pretend that they aren't competing when it suits their message, but they know that they're all in the same fight at the end of the day.
So maybe Nintendo didn't implement a perfect Blue Ocean, it has still brought them tremendous success. No matter how compelling your product is, it's just a fact that you're going to sell more units if you lower the price on it.
@ Bloodwalker
A retailer special had crossed my mind. I almost put 'price cut confirmed' in the thread title, but you're right, this might be a limited offer from just Toys 'R' Us.
For that matter, it could be a hoax.
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