Why Nintendo won't drop the price of Wii U this year

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Aielyn said:

RolStoppable said:
Wii with a game: $250. Wii U with a game: $350.

Games and price decide sales. If the price is too high, people won't buy regardless of the games.

You didn't address the Gamepad at all. Not only is the Wii U $100 more than the Wii, its perceived value is also lower (meaning the Wii U at $250 with a game will still sell much worse than the Wii did).

As I already said, games decide sales given the price. With sufficient quality games available, the system will sell at $600. At $300, the Wii U will sell just fine if they have quality titles like the ones coming in the second half of this year.

And "perceived value" according to whom? You? Because most people (in the mainstream) don't see things the way that you seem to, based on your posts in this thread.

I don't know if its simple as "games decide sales" neccessarily, as much as gamers would love to believe this.

The Dreamcast and GameCube had great games and really pretty awesome libraries early on, but both had sales issues right from the get go pretty much.

The Wii had explosive sales, but its library honestly wasn't much better than the Wii U at this point in time in actual quality.

A lot of this has to do with what games you have and what new audience they are bringing in.