There has never been and there never will be a game console that never declines in price.
Even the NES got price cuts and it had like 95% market share (lol).
It's also a ridiculous assertion to expect any company to be able to to just wave their magic wand and deliver a game that sells 10+ million copies every six months. Sony or Microsoft or Sega can't do that, Nintendo can't either. There's nothing wrong with a price after almost three years, lol, on the market.
It's not like you get some kind of special cookie for waiting 4 years instead of 3 to cut the price.
It also shows to me that Mr. Iwata is much more flexible and in tune with the market than Mr. Yamauchi was. Yamauchi is the one who could become fixated on certain arbitrary rules, Iwata is interested in marketshare. If you don't have marketshare or you're bleeding marketshare and you've lost brand momenteum as well ... Nintendo learned the hard way with the GameCube that it can impact your overall profits.
