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Mummelmann said:

lolzmahballz said:

Why is everyone (or maybe it's just the nintendo fans) downplaying/rejecting the idea of a wii price cut does it somehow benefit you to have the wii remain at $200 dollars.... I personally do not own a wii however as a former nintendo console owner I have interest in the wii  (I love me some Donkey Kong >.<) however I also know for a fact I will never buy one at its current price point and I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way. If it was droped to $150 there is a very high chance of me picking one up this fall when donkey kong is released.

As far as the new 360's sales go give it time...it just came out of course it's gonna be selling good did any one honestly expect it not to? wait a month and see where it settles at, that'll tell you how good of a boost it gave to sales.

Same thing happened last year. Everyone in here said Nintendo would not cut the price, it was not needed and would not happen. Nintendo themselves said thay they would not cut the price and that it was doing great regardless. Malstrom wrote about how Nintendo would be showing weakness if they lowered their price, talked about the high demand and how silly the people who imagined that the Wii would have its price cut, were.

What happened? They cut the price in the fall/winter. Utter silence. It could happen again, let's not get ahead of ourselves and say it can't happen. Cutting the price to 150$ right before the holidays might cause another record December (I say might because the price cut alone actually didn't make that much of a difference last year until NSMBWii released) and would be a brilliant move on Nintendo's part. Even they need to pull some tricks out of their bag to maintain momentum.

Normally I would agree with you but you're forgetting one thing. Even with how unrealistic it was at the time Ninty were still shooting for 26 million that year. They didn't lower their projection to 20 million until a month later. They're already aiming low this year with 18 million. Unless that's some sort of marketing ploy and they intend to smash through it I don't see them cutting the price, especially with the recent bundling of WSR. They probably think that the current line-up is good enough to get them within eye-sight of last year's Christmas because they're going to lose a lot in the lead-up to it. And Q1 will likely be lower as well since the post-holiday momentum won't be quite as strong as this year, especially with GT5 likely sucking all the air out of EMEAA.