| Loud_Hot_White_Box said: Wii will also see a healthy bump in units sold overall, obviously. And it IS about price, not just blue ocean, not primarily that people are rewarding Nintendo for supposedly having 'better' games...sales are in large part a function of price, because price is one major component of value. And when PS3 came down into the near-Wii price range, well, Wii had to vacate if they wanted to maintain a strong 1st place position in home console sales. |
Except that's not why Nintendo did the price cut, they did it because of their concerns about not meeting sales projections, not Sony, althought I think they could have met it without the price cut, but that's neither here nor there, look at PS3 sales, they are falling, even without the price cut Wii was around 180-190K a week, the PS3 would have fallen below that very soon, in fact it may have been around that level last week, we'll know when the numbers come in, no Nintendo was worried they wouldn't be able to move 26 million by march so that's why they price cut.
Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)
