RolStoppable said:
Since the market regarded the 8GB SKU as gimped, the Wii U was a $350 console at launch. Therefore the reduction to $300 was a real price drop. The same holds true for other consoles that had poor SKUs, namely the Xbox 360 Core that launched alongside the clearly superior premium model in 2005. Dropping the Wii U price further had to be weighed carefully. A $50 cut would have required two first party games being sold to get in the black again. That isn't much, but it's not guaranteed to happen, especially because the console already came bundled with one or two games. Plus Nintendo already learned with the GC how futile price cuts ultimately are when the console itself isn't a desireable product. |
Yeah, I understand...
However, not a price drop that makes any real difference, that's what I mean...
Wii u was all along at 299$ just a white version with less memory capacity!
Anyway, what we discuss my teacher haha... As I aforementioned, slashing the price was prohibitive owing to the undesirable costly tablet controller and nintendo had already lost money because of the vast dead stock of white 8gb wii u version and the clearance of it.
As for the futility of GC price lessening!
GC sold 208m piece of software on a just 22m selling hardware, an astonishing attach ratio of 9.5 ( even though gc had considerable third party support, at least for two to three years ) , so without them, gc which sold close to xbox, could have perfomed like wii u, or even worse since 6th antagonism was more intense!
