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Mandalore76 on 15 April 2021
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Chicho said:
Mandalore76 said:

It will be interesting in 7 years or so time to see if there is a Super Slim $199 PS5 on the market or not.  Or if the case holds true that as hardware gets more expensive, the fewer price cuts the system will receive in its end of cycle years, as has been the case with the WiiU, the PS4, and the XBox One.

You shouldn't really include the Wii U in there. It is like saying there was no Virtual boy revision. 

Disagree.  The Virtual Boy was cancelled in less than 1 year.  While the Wii U wasn't a success by any stretch of the imagination, it was still pushed by Nintendo as their home console from November 2012 until the Switch launched in March 2017.  That's over 4 years in the marketplace.  And it only received 1 price cut early in it's lifespan, and that was a $50 reduction of the 32 GB model in September 2013.  It's relevant to note that Nintendo never dropped the price to even $199 to try and shift more systems later in the Wii U's lifecycle.  The Gamecube similarly flopped to the Wii U and was replaced in 5 years, yet it still had more price cuts than the Wii U.