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Games4Fun on 13 April 2011
bannedagain said:
Games4Fun said:
bannedagain said:
Games4Fun said:

I wonder if they are cutting the price to try to compete with babysitters.....


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.


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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.

The Wii/DS are my main systems. I bought a PSP for some of the JRPG's but I question why I thought I would have the time to play all the games i want already let alone when I added the PSP too.



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Mr Khan on 13 April 2011
TheSource said:

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.

The question being how much the effect Wii Sports Resort (which by the time the price-cut hit might have finally been hitting its stride) and especially NSMBWii later on had on that. The immediate effect is quantifiable, but the long-term effect could come from the two biggest games Wii had that year.



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Solid-Stark on 13 April 2011

I bought one for my lil bro back in November last year. I'll get my personal one if this is true, but after E3.



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SaviorX on 13 April 2011

Maybe they are going to drop the price on May 15th and drop the bomb on us by announcing Dragon Quest X for a July release.



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TheSource on 13 April 2011

Well put it this way - Nintendo has released 2D Mario games before but I sincerely doubt NES ever sold over say, even 2.5m in the USA during any of its months on the market. Its like the NES peak was dramatically different from the Wii peak either - they sold 9.2m of them in 1989 just in the USA, compared to 10.2m for Wii in 2008 and 9.6 in 2009.



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BoneArk on 13 April 2011

If this is true, E3 will be very interesting to watch.



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Raze on 14 April 2011
SaviorX said:
SmokedHostage said:
trestres said:

Finally, Wii time is ending, let them unveil Wii 2 soon.


And there will less software on Wii 2 than Wii.

It'll be like the PS3 launch only worse.


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Raze on 14 April 2011
trestres said:

Finally, Wii time is ending, let them unveil Wii 2 soon.


I think we got another year yet before they show off their next home console. I doubt they'd waste the time putting out a new Zelda game and making it for Wii and its successor like they did with Twillight Princess. I think Zelda and a price cut will be their push for 2011, and there's still DQX at an unkinown date yet. We also haven't seen any Starfox on the Wii yet. Kinda odd to leave it out, as there's been a starfox on every home console from Nintendo since the SNES.

I wouldn't be surprised if they have Starfox as their secret, under wraps announcement for this E3.



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Carl on 14 April 2011
kowenicki said:

They should have done this ayear ago.. i expect the longer term reaction of the buying public to be a lot less significant than many here think it will be.

A Year ago would have been less than a Year since the last Pricecut...

You being serious?



                            

Troll_Whisperer on 14 April 2011

This only makes sense, though personally I think a price cut right before the holiday season would be ideal for them. I'm sure the Wii would sell much more during the year if they advertised the price cut as hell during xmas. Anyway, what Nintendo needs is software really. It really seems they are abandoning the Wii, or maybe it's that Nintendo figured out they will release all their software around xmas when most Wiis are sold, which is sad for gamers who want to play good games on Wii all year round.



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