$250 Mario Kart 8 Wii U Bundle. Will It Happen!? <(^_^<)

[MTZehvor]

Einsam_Delphin said:

MTZehvor said:

Einsam_Delphin said:

MTZehvor said:

Not unless the production price for Wii U goes down significantly somehow before the end of May. Nintendo was losing money back when they were selling the console by itself for $300; dropping the price for the console by essentially $110 (assuming Mario Kart costs $60), would put them at an even worse position than they're in already.

Once again, the Wii U always comes bundled with a game now. MK8 will not increase the cost anymore than the already bundled games.

While that's true, the difference here is that there are no Wii U bundles that are going for $250 (outside of ones repriced by retailers to simply get rid of their stock). What you're asking for is Nintendo, who was already losing money on the $350 Wii U bundle when it came out, and then cut the bundle price and started eating bigger losses, to now once again increase their loss per console with a bundle that adds another $50 in the negative. That's not going to happen.

Yep, it wont happen, just like with the first price cut... oh wait! Why you guys still seem to think losing money is the only factor that plays into whether or not they should price cut despite Nintendo proving twice already that it's not, I'll never know!

Simple: It takes a situation where it's quite difficult to make profit and turns it into one where it's virtually impossible to. Nintendo didn't "prove" that money wasn't the biggest factor by slashing the prices once; they did so, in fact, for the exact opposite reason. They did it because they believed it put them in the best position to make money; if they could convince people to buy their system at a slightly lower price, they could then turn around and sell (hopefully) enough games to those people in order to recoup the losses. Nintendo doesn't run some "donate to gamer's utility" charity where the point is to let gamers just simply have fun.

By your logic, they might as well reduce the price of the Wii U to five bucks, since apparently the ability to make money is no longer Nintendo's main goal. Encouraging the sales of software is one thing, but if you have to lower the price of your console to the point where you can't make any profit unless the buyer purchases a good 15 or so games, then you've overdone it. That's simply bad business practice at that point, and despite all current notions against this, Nintendo strives as much as possible (like any other company) to remain profitable.