EEDAR: Wii to outsell Xbox/PS3 this holiday
Thursday, September 24, 2009
EEDAR have sent out a PR email stating their opinion on the Wii price cut. Details are given below.
-EEDAR believes Wii will outsell other all other home consoles this holiday
-Weekly increase of 40% for Wii through the holidays
New hardware (WiiHD) would pose a problem with consumer and publishers
-Price cuts are pre-emptive strikes to capture a larger share of mainstream and casual audience before Microsoft and Sony release their motion controls
-Increased penetration of MotionPlus a likely priority for Nintendo
-Wii sales down 53% from Q1 2009 to Q2 2009
--------------------------- source - email at link below http://nintendodpad.com/Welcome/News/Entries/2009/9/24_EEDAR%3A_Wii_to_outsell_Xbox_PS3_this_holiday.html
Well i was right about market share security in preperation for motion control competition. Im going to retire.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
