I Believe PS3 Will Be #1 Selling Console In 2011 What Do You Believe In?

[Immortal]

*Sound Of Rain said:

Immortal said:

ninty_shareholder64 said:

LOL!

You're joking, right?

The Wii hardware is obv the cheapest in production costs. Ninty could cut the price to ~80$ and would still be profitable.

Wii is in the best postition when it comes to price cuts, FACT.

 

04/07/2009  Wii production costs ~88$

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20090407124321_Nintendo_Wii_Costs_Roughly_88_to_Manufacture__Analysts.html#

Oh my! Just 90 bucks? And that was one and a half years ago! By now, they probably make them for like 50-60$. By say, 2012, Nintendo could easily afford to make Wiis go for 50 bucks with the current bundles. If they make a Players' Choice Line with software going for 20-25$, in this recession...

Nintendo isn't stupid...they could drop the Wii Bundle price to $100 right now, still make a profit, and sell a ton! This also supports my reason of Wii>PS2 in lifetime sales. They never seem to go with current graphics technology but instead goes for something new and unique to sell systems(as well as amazing games)...next Gen should see a Nintendo system with PS3/360 like graphics and something cool and different that games haven't seen before with a starting price of $300 or less. 3DS seems to be an exception to Nintendo systems...with a rumor of a $300 starting price...for a H.H thats a lot which is why I predicted a few months ago that 3DS would fail to be as successful as the DS. I personally don't expect 3DS to even break the 100 Million mark.

Honestly, that stuff doesn't really matter. If you do it with something like Wii, it's beyond genius, but the PS2 was pretty darn successful too and it sold at a loss zt first.  Also, we don't know how much money they're making off the 3DS and the $250 price point is way more likely at the start.

What we should be worried about the 3DS for, though, is the games. Where would the Wii be without Wii Sports? Wii Fit? And the DS without Nintendogs? Brain Age? So far, we've seen nothing magical regarding the 3DS. If Nintendo just relies  on good graphics and its user base, 50m for the 3DS is optimistic, :/.

Iwata did say that they're coming up with new stuff when this issue was brought up at the investors' conference, though, :D.