Really? Last time I checked, profits work the other way around. For example, 5 million units sold of product A at $300 and 15 million units sold from product B at $200 is a huge difference. Lets say both products cost $210 to make, which product made the most profit?

They honestly should just ditch the gamepad. That would likely lop $70 off the production cost right there and immediately start selling the thing for a much lower cost. 

Sell the tablet seperately with Nintendo Land bundled for those who decide they want it later. 

I realize they may not want to, but it's getting to the point where they need to maximize the userbase for the machine for the sake of the games so that they at least have a chance of selling a good amount of copies.

The hardware concept is a dud, it's time to just accept it and make the best of a bad situation. 

The Wii U is fine just how it is, if you owned one, you would know that.

Plex in 1080p HD through the web browser playing practically every file-format known to man, NintendoTVii and it's stellar sports community, a slew of Rated-M games (since that is all anyone cares about anymore,)  probably more exclusives coming in 2014 then both other major home consoles combined, free online, Miiverse, 7 different control schemes including Mayflash Gamecube adapter, homebrew and a debian-based linux OS currently being worked on, and it's cheaper.

I feel sorry for you for being so uneducated and worthless at researching...

More opinions from non-gamers who only own one system and have no idea what they are talking about...

I have to add on to this. You smug bro dudes are so diluted that you cannot even see that your precious xb1/ps4 specs are outdated by years and are laughable in any legitimate PC gaming circle. The "leap" in graphics is almost not even noticeable by a large extent compared to these "last-gen" RROD and YLOD failures of consoles. You guys sit here and brag about graphics and games when you barely have either. The mentality of most of you is that of pre-pubescent 12-year olds just wahcking off for the first time thinking they know evertything...

I know if I ever need a laugh, just come here and listen to all of the uneducated, idiotic, ridiculous, nonsensical garbage that comes spewing out of all of your mouths...

I'm glad you like the system personally, but Nintendo isn't in business just to make you happy. They need to be able to sell this thing to a larger audience and right now it's tracking around Dreamcast numbers, which simply is no where near good enough. 

There's not one person at Nintendo's HQ that's happy with the performance on this machine right now. 

Nintendo needs to dramatically increase their install base in order for the Wii U to survive to the end of this console cycle.  To that end, Nintendo will sell Wii U below cost at $249 if it becomes necessary.  They did the same thing with 3DS early on, and 3DS is now a total beast and no one even talks about it's early struggles anymore. 

Mario Kart 8 will sell a couple million units within a few months of it launching, that much I have no trouble imagining.  At that point, Nintendo can give away Mario Kart with every Wii U sale starting in November, and Kart 8 will have long since made it's money back by then.  Then releasing Smash for $60 in November, the same time you can snag a Wii U with Mario Kart 8 for $249, and that I feel like, would be an extremely attractive proposition for all the Nintendo fans waiting on the fence for something big to come to Wii U.

That's all well and good, but all of that means nothing if the thing isn't selling.  Clearly people, rightly or wrongly, don't think that the WIi U is a good value at the current price.  Nintendo either needs to change the price or change the perception of the system.

Mayby they do a symbolic one.. to 279 $.

But they will not go under that for some years.. What they will do is to add more value instead.

There's a lot of things they can do.. and will do,

- Bundle whit MK U (i don't think that will happen, first year, but they could)

- Give some Virtual games (or all let's say Nes, snes, n64)

- Make VC better by adding GC games (again.. mayby bundle them)

- They could do a "Get some free games to play every month" thing

- Make Nintendo tv better (give us some free stuff.. add more formats)

- Include some ekstra hardware (mayby pro controllers)

- They could make a wii-u with a bigger HD

- Invest in more games or make new services..


It would make no sense just dump the price..

If I could buy a Wii U with a Pro Controller instead of a gamepad, I'd put down $199 right now.  The gamepad was, is, and will always be the barrier between me and that system.  I just don't like it at all, probably the worst controller I've ever used.  However, I really want to play some of the games on the system.  But until I don't need the gamepad and all the games can be played with the Pro Controller, I'll be sitting by and waiting.

Nope.

Nintendo only cut 3DS a lot because it had profit margin to cut.

Wii U at $299 had no margin and likely not much of one even as this year continues.

At best you'll see a $50 cut... maybe.

Wow thanks for being a total prick, if u cared to actually do some research u would see that im one of Nintendos biggest supporters on these forums and probably a good 75% of my posts are defending them and saying positive things about them. For me personally the Wii U is fine at its current price and will be my first 8th gen console but there is no denying that its current sales are absolute shit.

The entire point of this thread is how can Nintendo help improve sales, distancing itself from PS4/One in terms of price is one way they can acconplish this. I never said Wii U has bad multimedia features or bad online, only that the competition has more/better.

Bluray player+500gb storage+extra power+3rd party support+more established online network makes the PS4 a bettet value for the majority of consumers despite being $100 more.

I dont why ur so offended that im offering constructive criticism for Wii U. Its a great console but its a fact that sales are poor and thats with plenty of sequels to multimillion selling franchises. Nintendo makes most of there money from software sales but u cant sell software if u dont sell the hardware. Lowering the price of entry will increase hardware sales which in turn will cause software sales to grow and give more people an opportunity to play the great games Nintendo makes.