| llewdebkram said: I'm just wondering that when the Wii eventually stops selling in huge numbers at it's current price point if a price drop will mean an explosion in sale again. What happened to GC sales in USA when the price dropped because it wasn't selling well? I seem to remember it had a resurgence at that point which at least brought it up to semi respectable final sales numbers in USA at least. Or am I incorrect?
Brought back memories of going into stores in UK such as Currys Dixons, PC world, Game, Blockbusters etc and seeing Nintendo games and consoles in a corner at the very back of the store before the GC eventually disappeared completely from so many stores. What a difference a few years make! |
The reality is that Nintendo won't let it stop selling "Huge Numbers" before they drop the price.
The-Magicbox.com has a blurb up currently which states that Nintendo has announced they're increasing Wii production in the next fiscal year. If Nintendo increases supply enough (say 2.5 Million units per month), and no longer has to worry about a constant sell out, they could reduce the price of the system to encourage higher sales.
Some people may ask why Nintendo would sell 2.5 Million Wii systems a month at $200 when they can make the same revenue by selling 2 Million Wii systems a month at $250 with lower costs. The reason is that Nintnedo is not a hardware company, and they make the bulk of their revenue through software sales which will benefit greatly by higher hardware sales. At the same time, higher hardware sales act as a (very good) incentive to attract greater (in size and quality) third party support.
