Soundwave said:
prayformojo said:
amak11 said:
prayformojo said:
spemanig said:
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As they should. A $199.99 Wii-U at this point would be like sprinkling magic pixie dust on the thing.
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That would also sell the console at a loss again. Wait until the console is selling at a greater profit for this wish. $249.99 is more reasonable of a drop, but 100 off is rediculous, hell just buy a refurb from Nintendo with the same warrenty for 200 if you are that cheap
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Every Nintendo console with the exception of Wii was $199.99 or less. It's not really that crazy. Yamauchi believed that a software was useless unless you have consoles to play it on. This is why Nintendo use to price their consoles so low. Iwata comes in, screws the pooch on the 3DS and Wii-U price points, and bam...insta slump.
Nintendo needs to keep prices in the sub $200.00 imo.
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Yet people wouldn't buy the GameCube even at $99. And taking inflation into account, the Wii U is about the same price as the Super NES at launch.
Though really if they want to get to $199, they probably could, but they have to be willing to dump that tablet controller and I don't think they're willing to do so. The other problem is they've probably mass produced a ton of Wii Us + tablet pads already, so if they removed the pads, they'd have to be able to sell those some how seperately or eat the full manufacturing loss on it.
Which is probably one reason they're unwilling to do so.
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Any time someone has to preface their argument with "taking inflation into account", they automatically lose. People don't CARE about inflation. This is about sticker shock and perception.
$199.99 looks better than $299.99 and that was just as true in 1985 as it is in 2014.
