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Soundwave on 25 June 2013
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oni-link said:
Soundwave said:

What I would suggest to NOA:

32GB - Black or White w/Nintendo Land - $279.99 effective in late September.

+ Free Digital Download of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD through January 2014 for new owners (holiday promotion).

That's basically just taking the basic pack and dropping the price by $20 and adding in a bunch of value -- 24GB more flash RAM (cheap), copy of Nintendo Land (not going to kill Nintendo), and even the free download copy of Zelda is not a big deal ... it's just a HD port of an old GameCube game.

But put together it gives the whole system some nice value and more importantly for Nintendo will get systems hopefully moving so that Mario 3D World, DKC, Wii Fit U, Wonderful 101, etc. actually have some userbase to sell to.

I'd like to see every new system come pre-loaded with a playable demo of The Wonderful 101 as well, that game needs promotion.

Nice one...I think dropping the price to $279.99 with NintendoLand pre-installed is doable this September (even if it is late Sept) and a genius idea IMHO.  Though I doubt they would let go of WW:HD for free ( I would surely ask for the same game as an Ambassador if that happens). That would salvage a lot of time from their post-launch blunder and give a chance for the Wii U to sell decent this Holiday. I would think a price drop to $279-$299 of the Deluxe version this September is brilliant!!! A holiday bundle with pre-installed NSMB:U along with NintendoLand for $299 would make them extremely competitive and could pick up sales from people who won't be able to find an X1 or PS4 this Christmas!!!


I think the Ambassador talk kinda needs to stop.

I bought an N64 at launch and a GameCube at launch, and both dropped in price well under a year, and we never complained. Pretty much all of Nintendo's modern consoles from SNES-GCN all had price cuts within like 9 months from launch.

The 3DS was only extreme because it was like 4 months after launch in North America.

A price drop for the Wii U by next September/October is certainly enough time from launch that IMO people who bought at launch don't have much right to complain. Don't buy consoles at launch if you want the cheapest price. That's just part of the deal of having the be an early adopter.

GameCube launched in November 2001 and was cut in price by $50 by the following April. N64 launched at the end of September (1996) of had its first price drop the following March (1997). SNES launched in late August 1991 and had its first price drop by spring 1992. If Wii U, which is selling worse than all three of those machines out of the gate, has a price drop by around Sept/Oct of this year, it's well in line with other Nintendo consoles.

The Wii (2006) was just an anamoly among Nintendo consoles, there was no need to drop its price for a long time because it was constantly sold out for like 2 years. We'll probably never see a console sell that fast out of the gates ever again.