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Price Cut When and How much?

$50 this year 2014 148 32.17%
 
$75 this year 2014 17 3.70%
 
$100 this year 2014 29 6.30%
 
$50 first half 2015 106 23.04%
 
$75 first half 2015 3 0.65%
 
$100 first half 2015 4 0.87%
 
$50 last half 2015 101 21.96%
 
$75 last half 2015 6 1.30%
 
$100 last half 2015 9 1.96%
 
$50-$100 2016 or after 37 8.04%
 
Total:460
curl-6 on 02 July 2014

The Wii U needs a $50 cut before this Christmas holiday if it wants to appeal to the family buyer; it's still too expensive to sell to the Mum & Dad shopping for their kids.



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Locknuts on 02 July 2014

$50 in the US this year. $129 cut here in Australia is needed. $429 is too much for the premium.



the2real4mafol on 02 July 2014

A small price cut around late 2015 around the time Zelda U comes out



Xbox One, PS4 and Switch (+ Many Retro Consoles)

'When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called the people's stick'- Mikhail Bakunin

Prediction: Switch will sell better than Wii U Lifetime Sales by Jan 1st 2018

Scisca on 02 July 2014

It needs a $70 cut ASAP. The thing just isn't worth the asking price and never was. A Nintendo console can never cost more than $250. Never. Now considering just how close to being dead Wii U is, they need to go lower, at least to $229, so that their product "pretty much" costs half of what the competition costs. I'm sure it'd pick up steam and sell really well this Holiday if they cut the price like that. People don't want more value in a bundle, they want to see a lower price.



Wii U is a GCN 2 - I called it months before the release!

My Vita to-buy list: The Walking Dead, Persona 4 Golden, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, TearAway, Ys: Memories of Celceta, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, History: Legends of War, FIFA 13, Final Fantasy HD X, X-2, Worms Revolution Extreme, The Amazing Spiderman, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate - too many no-gaemz :/

My consoles: PS2 Slim, PS3 Slim 320 GB, PSV 32 GB, Wii, DSi.

sam987 on 02 July 2014

Like last year I think this August/Septembre ....



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KLXVER on 02 July 2014

I think 50 bucks in the first half of 2015 at the earliest. They will probably have bundles until then.



Numberfox on 02 July 2014

Maybe a small price cut, though I'm one of those people that think people still need to know that the thing exists first...



Current Consoles: Gaming PC, Wii U, 3DS

*Sound Of Rain on 02 July 2014

I think it'll get a $50 price drop to $250 in Spring 2015.

I'd assume a Super Smash Bros Bundle will be released for $400. Is this too high? Probably but I doubt it will be lower.



QuintonMcLeod on 02 July 2014
Bfriedli said:

I think Nintendo needs a price drop bad.  It's not a "gamers" console that has lower specs then PS4 or XB1.  It has a 32bg hd vs 500gb. PS4 & XB1 are $399 after getting a external 500gb HD for Wii U it's $375. I believe they need a price cut bad.  If you agree how much and when do you think they will.  If you don't think they need a price cut, why not?


You guys are still going on about this?

I doubt we'll see another price drop if Nintendo just recently stopped bleeding money by the Wii U. If you think the Wii U is too expensive with a huge backlog of games while the PS4/Xbone are the perfect price with very few games, then the issue is not the Wii U's price.



Max King of the Wild on 02 July 2014

Not this year.