"Sega" Nintendo could drop the Wii price to $80 and still make a profit

[dunno001]

Xen said:
The insides of the thing are quite outdated, and since the Nintendo sold the GC for $50, then yes, he may be right.

Actually, that was never an official price. The final MSRP from Nintendo was $99.99. Some stores, to clear them out early, clearanced them to $79.99 while they were still relatively easy to sell. The price of $49.99 was after the 360 was out, Wii was about to come out, GC sales were practically dead, and stores trying to stubbornly get the $100 price found they just couldn't sell them anymore.

In fact, if you looked around at the last batch of Circuit City stores going out of business, you could occasionally find a Gamecube, sitting unwanted, with a sticker price of $99.99, less whatever pitiful percentage off they were doing on it. (3 weeks before my store closed, it was only 25% off.)

As for this idiot (at Sega), personally, I hope that Sega fires him for running his mouth. With all the partnerships Nintendo and Sega have been doing lately, for Sega to condone one of their employees doing this in their name would speak ill to Nintendo about said relationship. I'm not going to hold Sega responsible for these words, unless they send a PR person to back them up.