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stranne on 16 May 2008
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lightbleeder said:
DarkNight_DS said:
lightbleeder said:
With price cuts and great games the Wii could reach 40 million units sold in NA in about 3.5-4 years from now, 60 million seems almost impossible, I don't believe it will ever reach that number in NA unless its sold for 50$

I've always suspected that it would drop to 50$ at some point. When software sales mean more then console sales (profit wise). So don't count it out.

 

My 60 million was really the absolute max. I too doubt it will hit that number. 40 million seems more realistic.


At the end of Dreamcast's life its price was 50$, of course Sega was desperate but I don't know if they were really losing money selling it at that price, the GC sells at 100$ and I'm pretty sure Nintendo has never lost any money on a console sold (it's actually 75$ at amazon.com). Knowing that Wii's production cost will drop a lot over the next couple of years I could see it being sold for 50$ at the end of its life cycle.


Was the GC (at its lowest price point) Nintendo's cheapest console, if you correct for inflation?