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Lonely_Dolphin on 08 July 2013
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Cold-Flipper said:
archbrix said:

Agreed.  Plus, if Nintendo plays the waiting game it allows them to gauge how well the PS4 and XB1 fare.  If those system's sales drop significantly and stagnate post holiday then it gives Nintendo more room to reduce accordingly.

That's another good point. PS4 & XB1 will show how the Wii U stacks against them and they can adjust their strategy / price accordingly.

 

Einsam_Delphin said:

 Alright it's true, we don't really know whether or not people like the current price, but 20k a week is not great by any means and definitely calls for a price cut. I would be uber dumbfounded if there isn't one by the end of 2014.

20K is absolutely terrible for sure but I don't know why anybody would think they'd be better. It doesn't "definitely call for a price cut" when the reason your system isn't selling has nothing to do with the price. If it launched at $200, it would've started off even better and sales wouldn't have dropped as low but sales would've still been below 40K every week. That's what happens when a system gets no new games for over half a year and your system had about 3 good games to begin with.

I'd say a price cut by the end of 2014 is certain but the amount isn't. Saying they need a $100 cut before the release of more than 3 quality exclusives is jumping the gun a bit.



But who's saying that? I'm definitely not.
Also you're just making assumptions. I could just as easily say that even when the Wii U get's more games it's sales still wont be that great, hence why I'm only going off of how it's been doing and what's been done before since we can't know the future or what would have been. Yes me saying there'll be a $100 price cut by the end of 2014 is also just an assumption, but I'm not using it to prove anything and it's backed up by facts n past instances, making it more of an educated guess.