HylianSwordsman said:
sc94597 said:
What spare parts does a WIi have that wouldn't be cheaper to buy in bulk? Microsoft was doing a promotion with PS3's to take marketshare and convert PS gamers to Xbox ones. Nintendo has no motivation to do that other than maybe to motivate Wii owners to buy a Wii U, but Nintendo cares more about profit than marketshare and likely wouldn't see such a venture as profitable in the short term nor the long term.
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Again, same logic applies here. What spare parts does an Xbox 360 have that wouldn't be cheaper to buy in bulk? The idea with this $75 dollar promotion is to get people to go to the Xbone in a way that lets Microsoft recover some of the costs by reusing spare parts. Nintendo could do the same. The difference is that Nintendo has more to gain from it since it would spread the word that the Wii U is a new console, and consumers have less to lose from it because the Wii U is backwards compatible.
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The Xbox 360 at least has hard drives to reuse, the Wii has nothing. Pretty much everything is replaced with newer standards, and the technology is so specialized. But that isn't the point. Microsoft obviously takes a loss from this, yes, maybe a reduced loss if they can resell parts or use the parts in refurbished 360s, but a loss still. What they gain is to prevent 360 owners from upgrading to a PS4 instead of an Xbox 360. That is all. Nintendo does not benefit from such a marketshare ploy. What you are basically asking is for Nintendo to reduce the price of the Wii U to Wii owners (which is essentially everybody who buys games) and then tell them about it, as the Wii has no components that would make up for a $50 price-cut (new Wii's sell for $100, used for as low as $40.)
