How much can the Wii keep selling so well?? My analysis!!

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stranne said:

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?

 If you correct for inflation I'd say that at 75$ the GC is Nintendo's console that has been sold for the lowest price, but I can't really remember Nintendo 64's final price....