lightbleeder on 16 May 2008
| Erik Aston said: Iwata has stated that they are not planning to drop the price of Wii, going as far as to say he thinks a business model that relies on price drops is broken. But sales will not drop dramatically AT LEAST until Wii reaches about 40M installed base in US: the traditional sales ceiling. Just like DS sales in Japan didn't drop dramatically until the system reached the traditional sales ceiling of 20M (without a price cut). |
I'll have to disagree with you, but I could be wrong. 40 million units sold in the US at 250$ is almost impossible, not one console has ever achieved that, The PS2 is at 40 million thanks to price cuts and is the most succesful console right now, how much has the price of the PS2 been below 200$?
The Wii has high chances of surpassing the PS2 but not without price cuts, the sales ceiling are conditioned by price, and at 250$ I'd say 20 million is a very good assumption...
