Nintendo still selling Wii U at a loss

[Lonely_Dolphin]

pezus said:

Einsam_Delphin said:

pezus said:

games+holidays-next-gen shelf space-unfavourable price point

Elaborate! Also if you're in the Pricecut 2013 camp, when do you think it should happen and by how much? I bet no matter your answer I can explain how I think it wont make much of a difference.

Pre-BF and pre-PS4/Xone launches. Probably October. By $50 and maybe bundled with a game. Then another $50 when MK comes out and they realize the price cut didn't help enough.

That's not as outlandish as I thought it'd be lol. October is possible, but still I think very unlikely. Very close to holidays, and I'd think Nintendo wants to go through their current Wii U stock before dropping the price, that way the price cut wont hurt profits as much. Your reasoning for the second cut is another reason they wont bother this year. Games + Holiday + Advertising will already be boosting sales, and they'll probably wanna see how well the Wii U does after it actually has decent library of games. It probably wont be doing that amazingly still, and as of right now there's nothing in between SM3DW and MK8, so a price cut in February/March would be better to help maintain momentum until MK8.