| DKII said: Everyone focusing on Nintendo missing their shipment projections is forgetting that if they do a price cut they'll just miss their profit projections instead. And if this price cut actually happens it's basically just Nintendo admitting that they have no quality hardware-moving software coming in the next year, and they don't have any confidence in NSMB Wii in particular. |
Well that would be under the assumption they haven't planned to drop the price at sometime in their fiscal year. Thinking that a corporation thinks so linearly is quite silly if you ask me. Of course it is quite possible they could be doing this on pressure of media, stock holders, and competition but we still don't know if this has been planned over time.
And that last part is a false dilemma fallacy (commonly known as an either/or fallacy). You state essentially that either Nintendo doesn't drop the price and show their software as big hardware movers or they do drop it and admit they aren't big hardware movers. That is a false dilemma fallacy because there are clearly other options as to why they would drop the price and have nothing to do with the admittance or non-admittance of the strenght of their software. Such as the things I suggested as competitive pressure, corporate decisions based on effectiveness of the use of the pricecut strategy, etc. That kind of argument isn't going to work.
