foxtail said:
I don't think Nintendo cared to beat PS1 numbers, they only wanted to hit the 100M mark. Nintendo could've had more aggressive price cuts throughout it's life if all they cared about was bigger numbers. ------ With slowing sales PS1 also had to cut its price to clearence-like pricing (MSRP $49/£49) to get it's last ~13 Million sold. That's a cut of 1/6 of the PS1 launch price of $299. Without it's official $49/£49 price points the PS1 likely would not have crossed the 100M mark before the end. ------ Nintendo also actually kept the Wii above the $199 USD price point for a longer period than Sony kept the PS2 above $199. thus resulted, Sony sold around 11 Million PS2s in the NA region before it dropped to $199, it ended up selling 50 Million plus there. So close to 80% of PS2 sold in that region were sold for $199 or less. to compare, Nintendo sold ~26 Million Wii in the America region before it dropped to $199, it ended up selling 48 Million plus there. So less than 50% of Wii sold in that region were sold for $199 or less. |
I'm not saying that it was Nintendo's primary goal to out-ship the Playstation, only that it would have likely resulted in doing so had they supported the Wii better in its final years.
The sad thing is that if the WiiU had opened with a tremendous first year of Nintendo software then we could at least say there was some positive payoff for it, but we all know how that went.
