Was Wii's price ever a problem?

[mike_intellivision]

alfredofroylan said:

Mr Khan said:

Price was never prohibitive, no. Nintendo just needed a price-cut to excite the market at a time when their software plans had rather fallen through (though we'll never know, will we? Sales were back up for August, after all. They could have kept pushing)

This's actually a good point. I don't understand why Nintendo didn't reconsidered its software policies about launch, hype and info. Excitebots was announced 1 month before release and they only 2 first party games for the Wii this season.

It makes you wonder if something happened at the Big N HQ in Tokyo. 

It could be that third-parties backed away from what was expected while some internal plans changed (see Malestrom's comments regarding user-generated content).

Finally, it appears the price cut made a difference -- and will make even more of a difference. I was at a Wal-Mart yesterday. At the beginning of the week, the Wal-Mart I went to did not even have the price cut marked. By Sunday, there were none in stock (two different stores but in the same town).

 

Mike for Morgantown