More Wii price cut evidence

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hsrob said:
For anyone saying they are surprised that there might be a price cut because Iwata says there wasn't going to be.......why on earth would he talk about a possible price cut months before it actually happened? That would be sales suicide. Price cuts need to be introduced rapidly or tailing off sales in the weeks leading up to an announced price cut is likely to offset any initial boost you might get from the cut.

Having said all that i think just a price cut isn't necessarily the best way to go. I would like if the standard Wii SKU was dropped to 200 and there was a replacement SKU at 250, either a red system bundled with NSWBW, a WSR M+ bundle or a WF+ bundle.

You're right, that is the normal scenario, but in this case he gave reasons for the low Wii sales..... no big releases in this period of the year contrary to 2008, and losing momentum after poor releases on Christmas...... and how they planned to revert the situation, not with price cuts but with software.

After all this years about talking of Nintendo's strategy and doing it accordingly, it's weird to see some contradictions here. Maybe this could benefit them, be a temporary move for a new bundle with Wii Sport Resort, or maybe this won't ever happen. We'll see.