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tak13 on 23 November 2016
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teigaga said:

I don't think the 2 are related really.

The Wii U is pretty price inelastic, so why bother cutting profit margins? Nintendo isn't the kind to dramatically cut a systems price just to get rid of stock, they're the kind to not replenish stock they know they won't sell. In the case of the Wii U it has zero games arriving beyond Zelda and is a tarnish on their name, they don't want it next to Switch in Toy R Us. The gamecube still received a lot of games in 2006.
                               

Wii u's forth year sales are near  to those of gc in its forth year so far, with wii u being expensive/overpriced and gc being overly cheap... So they could still try with it!

They decided to reduce the production instead, they aim to 800k wii u units shipped for the current fiscal year, while they have already shipped the 560k prior to holidays... Gap with gc is at 5.5m, which will  expand dramatically in that quarter, because wii u isn't going to have a last normal holidays selling period like gc had before being replaced by wii the next year.

 

Apparently, Nintendo  would be forced to cut wii u price after switch launch, which will cost less than 299$, since as I aforesaid the older and weaker brother of switch can't have higher price than it, thus they prefer to discontinue wii u because they can't/aren't eager to diminish the price of their product.

Do you think that Nintendo wouldn't like to sell another 4m wii u units  between FY16-FY18 instead of 800k just in FY16 and more software by extend?

I have mentioned that Nintendo ended the production of gc in the first quarter of 2008, when they shipped 140k and had the vastly selling wii my friend by then...