Changes in Wii Sales Rates: When Will They Occur & What will be the Signs?

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Its still way to early to speculate on this - but I definitely put the Wii in Cat C, or even a Cat D.

Simply consider these points with nothing else:

i) The only reason the Wii has ONLY sold 9m units WW, is that it is sold out everywhere. So current sales are solely dependent on manufacturing at the moment - nothing else. 

ii) Nintendo are selling Wii units at a PROFIT. This is pretty astounding when you consider that its still cheaper than the competition, which are losing money for their operators (on hardware).

iii) Much of the software being created for the Wii is (relatively) cheap to create. This makes bundling with software much more viable.

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So based on these three points alone... if Nintendo released a $99US Wii bundle, with WiiSports and BigBrain(Wii) - and had 100m units ready for sale... and backed all this up by a huge marketing campaign... how many units would they sell?

Answer - it would take a while, but I would think ALL of them would sell (worldwide of course).

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MS & Sony are just not in a position to hit this price point - no time soon anyway. And Nintendo will not even consider dropping the price while they are manufacturing/sellout constrained.