As it is getting closer to the holiday periods people are talking about the different console makers strategies for the holidays. The Wii has been seeing declines in sales compared to the same week last year for awhile now, and since holiday 2009 saw such amazingly strong Wii sales it would seem that the this year the console would be down a lot compartively. Some people seem to think there is a possibility of another price cut to the system this year, but it seems unlikely that Nintendo would make cuts 2 years in a row when it took so long for them to make the first one. Also while they have a respectable line up this year, the main games just don't have the sales potential of their hits from last year, so it seems like they need something else to keep from seeing a big sales decline.

I think that potential something extra could be a price drop to the Wii Fit Plus bundle. It's been 3 years since the introduction of Wii Fit, and the only thing it has seen is a slight price increase when Wii Fit Plus was introduced last year. Sales of Wii Fit Plus while still remarkable are starting to slow down, and a price decrease accompanied by new promtions for it this holiday could see the game having another massive holiday. This would help Nintendo in two ways, the obvious one being increased sales for Wii Fit Plus, but the other being increased Wii hardware sales. Nintendo is always showing graphs about how Wii Fit sales are in a direct positive coorelation with Wii hardware sales, so it stands to reason that a big increase in Wii Fit sales would also see stronger Wii hardware sales. It also might be a nice little counter measure to Move and especially Kinnect.

A $20-30 Wii Fit plus price cut could be just what the Wii needs but I don't think this move would allow the Wii to match last year's hardware sales, but I think it could make a 15% drop from last year instead of a 25%+ drop from last year's holiday more likely.

So what do you think? Is this a move that Nintendo is likely to make? If they do cut the price what kind of impact do you see it having on both the sales of Wii Fit Plus and Wii hardware?

A bundle at 199 with wii fit plus sounds better I think, but I like your idea.

It would be a smart move, a bundle  like Luthor said would be even better. But really, if Nintendo wants to be flat YoY this isn't enough: cut the price of the Wii, expand the Player's Choice series (only in Japan now if I'm right), make some bundles and launch different colours Wii. Also market it with new games, not only Wii Fit or Wii Sports!

The best thing they could do to improve the sales is an upgrade of the Wii, like Sony and MS did with their consoles, but that is unlikely to happen...

What about the Wii could be upgraded that would be backwards compatible for existing Wii owners. Thats why I think the talk of WiiHD is nuts.  The new casual owners I dont believe will be as fast to upgrade tech.  If they wanted more upto date tech they would have skipped the Wii to begin with.

Microsoft added the Wifi and changed the shape of its console and it is selling extremely well even without a price cut.

Sony cut the price but sold a console smaller, without backwards compatibility and with bigger HDD and it sold a lot, like never before.

Nintendo could do the same: make a Wii with a different shape (not only smaller), in different colours, add an HDD or a bigger flash memory, install a channel to read DVDs and bundle it with a pair of games (Wii Party and DK) for 179$. Do you think it would have a smaller Christmas than last year? No, that would push the Wii to its limits.

Vitality Sensor with WiiFitplusplus, LOL!

But to be honest, where is the Vitality Sensor?

It's something completly new (forget bio tetris 64) and could help to counter kinect and move.

I don't think it'd kill them to add an HDMI port and a scaler to the Wii. However yeah, cutting the price of Wii fit or introducing a bundle could be quite an excellent move to ride out the last of the Wii Fit craze. Well it'll still sell but not nearly at the same right from this year onwards.

Not possible, since recent Wii disc drives can only read discs with a burst cutting area. This excludes writeable discs, and most DVDs.

OT: I think Nintendo could do a lot through advertising the value of their existing package, while promoting the variety of existing and upcoming titles.

How does my homebrew manages to read it then?

It's about software instead of hardware, so yes, read DVDs isn't out of reach.

personally, I started to worry, Its down massive.... it needs something to move fans...... bundles, dvd, better online, anything