will Wii U officially become $199 this year?

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zorg1000 said:

Soundwave said:

To be honest I think the system's goose is cooked pretty much either way. It's been a disaster for Nintendo from the day they unveiled it.

$199.99 and ditching or creating a smaller/cheaper version of the game pad would be probably their best play at this point, but $99.99 didn't save the GameCube, though it did provide a temporary boost for sure.

I think the larger problem is without a Wiimote like gimmick that creates an insane frenzy with consumers people simply don't want the "modern Nintendo console" (which basically means 3-5 really good Nintendo games per year + limited third party support + feature support such as online which tends to be behind the rest of the industry).

The only way to really change this is to have some kind of new miracle software title that drives a large number of systems to be sold, but that is also much easier said than done. 

Ur right about Gamecube but when it was $99 the competitors were at $149-$179, thats only $50-80 difference. If Wii U becomes $199 this year, thats a $200-300 difference

To be honest I think the PS4/XB1 are basically a different market entirely. 

I don't think there are many people who are really interested in what the PS4/X1 offer who are going to jump ship and choose a Wii U instead regardless of price.

The person who wants a PS4/X1 is looking for a system that has all the major future third party games (the Destinys, future GTAs, etc.) and is a hardware upgrade over the PS3/360 that they already own, the Wii U doesn't satisfy those needs at any price point. 

Wii U's competetion is probably more effectively the PS3/360, so there it would help get more competetive is selling to kids for example, but they PS3/360 are also cheap and have the Wii U beat pretty soundly with hundreds of games already available, many of which are discounted to $20-$30 a pop. That's still a problem.