| z101 said: This seems to be an expensive "black-friday"-victory for MS. The Xbox360 price sometimes was lower than the wii prices. Microsoft has lost again millions of dollars on black friday and nintendo has made another few millions earnings. |
Interesting. You do remember when this year started Wii suggested retail price in US was $199.99. The 360 suggested retail prices for the 360 were between $199.99 and $399.99 depending on the SKU.
Fast forward to this November. Wii suggested retail price reduced to $149.99 and 360 still the same as the start of the year. OK now there were marketing related incentives given by MS and Nintendo this BF. After all Walmart sold a bunch of the 500K Wii's sold this BF. I would suggest that a huge percentage of the Wii's sold this year on BF were at the $99.99 price point. So doubtful that MS marketing costs were that drastically different then Nintendo when you take into account Nintendo already dropped the price by $50.
Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.
