Wii price drop confirmed: $199 starting this weekend

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megaman79 said:

Zones said:

megaman79 said:
why?

You people do not understand Nintendo at all. When they promise they will meet their projections they actually mean it. Not like Sony for the last decade.

If for no other reason they bump their market share, or keep it at 50%, after the launch of the competitors motion controls they have done their job of securing the tail end of this gen.

This price drop doesn't really have anything to do with Sony not meeting their projections "for the last decade".

I would understand if you were brining up Sony to compare the effect of Wii's price drop versus the one on PS3, but I don't think what you have said here is really necessary.

I didn't say that. I mean in general Nintendo promise in their projections what they can achieve. Sony (the whole thing, not just games) overestimated their projections for a long time, thats the comparrison i am making.

Nintendo runs one business and the whole company is centered around running two videogame systems right now, SCE alone is two times larger than Nintendo in terms of employees and they have three systems on the market right now as opposed to two from Nintendo. And the whole Sony is around ten times larger than SCE so you can only imagine how hard it would be for any company on that scale to project their yearly sales precisely.

And again, Sony or SCE's projections are not related to this price drop in any way, and I think it's best for people to wait and see how effective this price drop will be considering, unlike PS3, price has never been a big issue for the system.