Will the Wii U Get a Price Cut this Holiday Season?

[Gammalad]

ZhugeEX said:

Gammalad said:
I honestly never agreed with the idea that slashing the price would cut that much into profits. A competitively priced Wii U means that out the gate consumers have more money to buy more games. If I had $400 to buy a games system, and the Wii U was say $199.99, I would easily grab that and 2-3 games and accessories. I feel like by slashing the home console price it would lead to a major boost in software sales to counteract whatever loss they would have gotten from the system cut.

The bolded is your problem.

You =/= everyone else. 

Even if a product is priced at $199 it doesn't mean people will buy it. Remember how the Amazon Fire Phone went from $199 to $0.99 but still no one wanted to buy it. 

And even if the people do buy that $199 product it doesn't mean that they'll buy more software at all. 

It still encourages customers to buy more software and accessorites when the entry level price for the system is very low. I based that example off of what I have seen working retail during the holiday time. If the system is priced right and marketed correctly with its line up of games it has the potential to do well.