Will Nintendo's Secret Weapon This Holiday Be a Price Cut...On Wii Fit?

[Buzzi]

thx1139 said:

Buzzi said:

It would be a smart move, a bundle  like Luthor said would be even better. But really, if Nintendo wants to be flat YoY this isn't enough: cut the price of the Wii, expand the Player's Choice series (only in Japan now if I'm right), make some bundles and launch different colours Wii. Also market it with new games, not only Wii Fit or Wii Sports!

The best thing they could do to improve the sales is an upgrade of the Wii, like Sony and MS did with their consoles, but that is unlikely to happen...

What about the Wii could be upgraded that would be backwards compatible for existing Wii owners. Thats why I think the talk of WiiHD is nuts.  The new casual owners I dont believe will be as fast to upgrade tech.  If they wanted more upto date tech they would have skipped the Wii to begin with.

Microsoft added the Wifi and changed the shape of its console and it is selling extremely well even without a price cut.

Sony cut the price but sold a console smaller, without backwards compatibility and with bigger HDD and it sold a lot, like never before.

Nintendo could do the same: make a Wii with a different shape (not only smaller), in different colours, add an HDD or a bigger flash memory, install a channel to read DVDs and bundle it with a pair of games (Wii Party and DK) for 179$. Do you think it would have a smaller Christmas than last year? No, that would push the Wii to its limits.