A lowered price is what the Wii needs. 

Lower the price, release Zelda with a compelling bundle, advertise it well, bundle with Wii Play Motion and you've got yourself a number of 300k weeks I reckon.

With that, who knows, the latter half of the year could well be UP YoY! Now that would be a novelty...

I don't think Nintendo have made the right call cutting the price of the Wii so early in the year, it won't have a substanstial effect without software support (which we now know isn't coming till at least Q3), momentum as well won't be helping them at christmas either (unless they make two price cuts in a year, but that can't be possible surely)

Right now Wii sales are bad YoY but are still very much in competition with the 360 and PS3, its not getting sold out by 200K/300K monthly so I don't think this is really nessecary worldwide, Japan is another matter though, but again, its got no software to accompany this price cut, so I don't see a long lasting effect there, overall, an unnecessary price cut imo

Yea after they start smoking everyone again we will see who needs a tissue.  If wii babysits me and my girl then fine, so does our xbox's too. Maybe PS3 should jump on the babysitting ideal.

Hmm timing and place of Sony conference suggest price cut might be more agresive.

They didn't really get much out of the price-cut last time, so unless they match this with new software, it'll just be leaving money on the table

I doubt it's paving the way for a new home console just yet. Let's get some perspective here, the machine launched at $250. The Wii has had what--one real price cut compared to its competitors? For all the talk of its declining sales, on a global level, its weekly sales are still neck and neck with 360 and PS3, which have both seen major hardware revisions, numerous price cuts, as well as major new hardware add ons and consistent, significant third party support from all major third parties. I suspect the poor Q2 line up is simply Nintendo giving 3DS as little competition as possible as it establishes itself on the market, it is after all, Nintendo's fanbase that will pick up the device first. This price cut may also be designed to compensate for the lack of heavy hitting software on Wii in Q2. Nintendo's evergreen titles will also continue to sell and bring in money.

Don't count the little white box out just yet. The price cut will pump some short term momentum into the machine, and a good Q3/4 line up, topped by Zelda, will ensure another bumper festive season for Wii, leaving E3 2012 clear for an N6 reveal. At this point Wii and Wii software is easy money for Nintendo, even if it isn't setting the world alight the way it used to. There's still Wii Play Motion, Skyward Sword, Xenoblade Chronicles, Last Story, Kirby, Pandora's Tower, Rhythm Heaven to come, with perhaps a couple more announcements at E3. The price cut and that last wave of software will be the last big push for Wii, and then it'll be N6 in 2012.

I've been fairly anti-price cut for some time, but I think now might be about the time to go for it. It's going on its 5th year now, and still sells for $200, which would be the Gamecube and N64 launch price. That's kind of a lot considering the hardware probably costs like what, $50 to produce? What I really think they should do is couple the price drop with the release of Wii Play Motion, as price cuts aren't very useful without new games to back them up.

It's a Joke.

In 2009, the price cut week accompanied a x2 to x3 lift in every world market initially, before settling to 75%, 60%, 50%, and then finally 35% for a couple quarters (most of the impact was in Nov-Dec).

In the USA the price cut came at the start of week five of September NPD.

Aug 2009 wkly avg - 69k

Sept 2009 wkly avg - 93k

However, there was no significant software in weeks 1-4 of September, so I think its reasonable to say that the transition in the USA was more like so:

69k-69k-69k-69k--Price Cut lift to 184k

October was then 507k, or an average of 126.7k per week (NPD probably had 140k, 130k, 123k, 114k), Nov had an average of 315k per week (much of it on Black Friday), and Dec was 762k per week.  Normally  Nov = 2x Jan-Oct monthly levels, and Dec = 2-3x Nov monthly levels. So without a price cut Wii probably would have gone 70k per week in Oct--> 420k per week in Dec (2.1m...it did 3.8m) instead of going 70k --> 762k per week (x11).

The price cut basically doubled seasonality in 2009.

In the Japan, the first four price cut weeks were 118k, compared to 64k in the last four 25,000 Yen weeks. The price cut also roughly doubled the seasonal increase in Japan from late September to the peak week - x19 instead of x8-9 in previous years.

Given a May price cut, the late seasonal lifts will probably be only 1.5x greater than usual rather than x2.

Your lucky because I was Punching pillows all day. LOL. I wasn't mad bro. Was just stating that wii is a force to be reckon with. F'ing thing is crazy but who doesn't love mario. I play xbox a majority of the time but still love the wii. Usually play the back catalog.