They cut price competitively, but last gen even Sony was criticized for not dropping prices fast enough.

Nintendo's a whole different ballgame though, yeah.  They're actually raising prices on DS through model updates.

i find abit since they were wiping the floor the whole gen, they could have the price 199$-150$ for a year longer, and still finish first.

but nintendo was holding at 250$ at much as they could,  and they did drop the price recenly on slim cut and 360  cut, u may say they may not need it, but their Year 2009 forecast says otherwise.

Oh sure, Sony could held pricepoints longer, and still would've remained a distant 1st, but they'd have sold much less.  They didn't drop because competitors were beating them, they dropped to move more units.  Wii could stayed at $249 and still stayed 1st as well.

The $199 drop in early/mid 2002 was really to throw the (just recently launched) GameCube and Xbox off though.  I think GC at least would've done quite a bit better had Nintendo been able to maintain the $100 barrier longer.

prices i paid

wii 2008 - full price (250 in canada)
ps2 2008 - free (canada)