Was Wii's price ever a problem?

[theRepublic]

mike_intellivision said:

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

I don't believe Malstrom on that UGC thing.  In America, Nintendo will have published 33 titles for the Wii by the end of its 4th calendar year.  For that same time period, Nintendo published 35 games for both the GC and N64, and 30 games for the SNES.  Nintendo has also published 12 WiiWare titles.  I would expect to see a lot less titles if Nintendo really abandoned a bunch of projects.  Maybe if we see a real absence of games from Nintendo over the next 1 or 2 years or so I will believe him.