Nintendo Will 'Regret' $249 Pricing on 3DS, says Pachter

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Squilliam said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

Squilliam said:

Hes not saying that the 3DS will fail, hes saying that Nintendo in his opinion could have made even more money at a higher launch price that is all. Given the success of the Wii and the perenial shortages for two years he does have a point.

Then he's being an fool, which is not a good idea considering his job. It's been mentioned that Nintendo needs to set a reasonable market price and not rely on cut after cut. The Wii had one cut, and it's still in the lead.

How is he being a fool? Perhaps what he is saying is that Nintendo needs to set a higher price and then continue to add value and iterate on their platform over time, say with better 3D cameras, better screens etc to improve the 3DS' appeal to the wider audiences than to set a middling price which doesn't afford them the same margins to do just that. Pachter is a big Apple fanboy so hes probably thinking 'what would Apple do?' in this instance.

Marketing your product to have extremely high value, thus warranting a high price doesn't always work. Look at Sony and the PS3. "It's $600 for consumers because it cost $850 to produce because the Cell, Blu-ray, HD, wireless, free online, so on and forth".

By this apparent theory, the PS3 should have the most sales now