Nintendo needs to drop WiiU's price soon and here's why

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pezus said:

TheLastStarFighter said:
Nintendo can surely afford a price cut in the west at the moment with the falling yen. The question is, would they want to? Losing $50 potential income per unit or more is significant cash to throw away. The key would be how many more units they would sell. If at the current price they would sell 5 million more Wii U's through the end of the year and price drop would bump it to 6, I doubt they would do it. But if the difference was 3 million and 7 million, surely they would.

I think we'll be able to tell if they are going to do it once Pikmin 3 launches. If that, and the following software, bumps sales of Wii U's to more respectable levels, they may stay the course. If sales stay awful, a price cut is coming.

Pikmin 3 won't boost sales much and even if it does boost by a few dozen k's, then it will be only for 2 weeks or so. I feel like another Donkey Kong Country and a Mario 3D Land type Mario won't help the WiiU enough for Nintendo to not need a price cut. That is, if they care about beating the competition at all. Because you can forget that if there's no price cut this year. 

if lego city boosted sales to almost 80k, certainly pikmin 3 will give it a higher boost.. if you think it will only be a few dozen k's you are delusional. and even if that was for 2 weeks (i don't think it will), there's splinter cell and the european version of W101 coming 2 weeks later, than rayman 10 days later, than US verison of W101 another 10 days later. see where things are going? october will grab august/september momentum and raise it with zelda ww remake, wii party u, sonic lw, batman and AC4 and the holidays will be huge with DK, mario, watch dogs, wii fit u, mario and sonic, call of retrocess + other multis.