| 68soul said: About Belgium: my country has never been virtual, and will still exist for a long, long time, thanks to the french speaking part of the population... The dutch speaking part of the country will soon be independant, but that's in fact the best thing that could ever happen to us: we don't want to share our country with a bunch of flemish nationalists/facists insulting us year after year... they are the ones saying "Belgium die" (Belgie barst), but if they hate their own country, that's their problem, not ours... Back to topic: that's great for the europeans who still don't have a Wii, i guess... and after all, it's here in Europe that Nintendo has the highest profit margins, so if they can afford a price drop in US, they can easily afford it in the euro zone as well... |
Not sure about the exchange rate for Euros, but for the UK even with the price increase Nintendo still get more money from US Wiis.
Ah... actually they may not, I just checked (taking off ~18% for VAT) Nintendo get's about 24k Yen from the UK, (though it was less before they increased the price) but only 22.6k Yen from a US Wii and about 27k Yen from Eurozone Wiis.
This will be missing a lot of factors I suppose, like first of all Nintendo don't sell them to retailers at full price, but that should be roughly similar in all regions so it doesn't matter... however it will cost them more in shipping and such for Europe. Though I doubt that amounts to over 4k Yen for the European difference, with British taxes it may bring Nintendos UK profits below USA ones.
