Squilliam on 22 April 2010
| scottie said: @ Squilliam - I think we've had this discussion before, but Nintendo has always in the past kept their consoles on the market for as long as they sell. The NES and SNES lifetimes made the PS2 look short lived. The only short lived consoles nintendo have had have been their two consoles that were powerful compared to their competition but sold badly |
I understand, but given the paradigm shift to gaining relatively high margins on the device itself, I cannot see them wanting to continue selling a relatively low margin $100-150 Wii alongside the N7. In addition to that they probably wouldn't want to keep a console on market for the issues of the complexity to support circa 2000 technology 12 years after release with software.
Who would buy a $150 Wii when you could get a $200-$250 N7 with 30* the performance and with whatever new innovative features they might add?
Tease.
