What malstrom sometimes neglects is that real world events often don't follow theoretical ideas. Blue Ocean should have Wii capturing massive 3rd party core gaming support during this last year, however, it hasn't. Why? Because devs are core gamers and they get more thrill to create super special HD games. Since these games still make profit on the PS360PC userbase which is still larger than Wii's the check writers are ok with that and don't push for Wii only versions.
This would not be the case if Wii could reach 60%+ market share which is only attainable through price reduction. This is why I believe Nintendo may be cutting the price even when they are still outselling their competition globally. (obviously no including the last two weeks until PS3 settles back down)
If Wii can gain another 10% marketshare and 3rd parties realize they absolutely can't afford to NOT put their big core games on Wii, then Wii's price will stick permanently like DS did. But, the handheld market was always different as Nintendo has always been the market leader by a large margin thus, Nintendo did not have to create a need for 3rd parties to develop software as has been the case with Wii.
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