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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.

I and some others are not saying price cut can't help. ust that it will last very little, if you cut the price in December (as you say) you can have a record December and a very good January. But then? They can't cut the price every year to push Wii's life to 2013, they need to do something bigger. Like an upgrade of the current console, not a new console. People loves upgrades, even if they every time bash new versions of current consoles because they have to spend more money...but they spend it! Make it and bundle with new software, that alone would push a lot the sales. Then why don't make it in different colours? There you have the ultimate solution for Wii...

Will Nintendo do that? Probably not unfortunately...I believe they'll cut the price, if not the Wii is gonna fall under 140k for sure, maybe even 130 after Move and Kinect launch.