I think there is one coming. MS has the money to do it and they've shown themselves to be fairly aggressive in the last few months.

Besides a $50 price drop for a system that's basically a year old is nothing that mind-blowing, MS should be able to do it without much fuss.

Scisca said: Keep 'em droppin'! Can't wait to get a PS4 for 300 Still, poor Wii U... So extremely underpowered, devoid of 3rd party games and pretty much at the same price...

It is a perception issue, the current Wii U bundle comes with 2 full games inside (Super Mario 3D World and Nintendo Land) for 300 U$ and you don't have to pay for online, when you do a similar comparison with the other consoles (400 for the base + 80 to 100 for 2 additional games + 50 to play online) you will see that the price is quite different. But I do agree that Nintendo should offer a 250 U$ console without any games so people feels that the console is cheaper when compared directly with the Xbox One and the PS4.

If they're gonna do a pricedrop, it should be for $100 or don't bother and just add stuff to the bundles.

flagstaad said: Scisca said: Keep 'em droppin'! Can't wait to get a PS4 for 300 Still, poor Wii U... So extremely underpowered, devoid of 3rd party games and pretty much at the same price... It is a perception issue, the current Wii U bundle comes with 2 full games inside (Super Mario 3D World and Nintendo Land) for 300 U$ and you don't have to pay for online, when you do a similar comparison with the other consoles (400 for the base + 80 to 100 for 2 additional games + 50 to play online) you will see that the price is quite different. But I do agree that Nintendo should offer a 250 U$ console without any games so people feels that the console is cheaper when compared directly with the Xbox One and the PS4.

The thing is, your math isn't correct. As you see here, base Xbone is gonna cost 350. There has been an Xbone ACreed bundle announced with AC IV and AC Unity (I believe it's for 400). So the difference between Wii U and competition is marginal, pretty much goes down to the fee for online, which in case of PS4 I pay gladly, since I get more games I can play from PS+ and I pretty much stopped buying games because of it. That is a marginal difference if you consider everything you get for that price difference.

If anything, Nintendo should offer a Wii U for 200 without games and 250 with 2 games. 250 without games? That's way too much. This console is in such a deep hole, it has to be cheap enough to be an impulse purchase.

The funny thing about things like these, is that if this "promotion" doesn't result in an unprecedented increase in sales, then the sales price will hold steady.

If at $50 off people are still not buying something, what sense does it make set the price back up to its original point. Not that I think it won't work, I thin it would. I even think sony will match them on some sort of level. Probably with 3 game bundles or something like that.

My god! Murica is cheap to buy electronics.

You are telling me that 300 U$ vs 450 U$ is marginal?, I will take into account your Assassin's Creed bundle for Xbox One that costs 400 U$ but I do think is a limited bundled, then add 50 U$ for online and you have 300 vs 450. If they put the price at 250 U$ without games vs 400 U$ for a Xbox One + 1 year online without games, you will still get the same 150 U$ difference (200 U$ when compared to PS4), but the important thing is to change the perception that the prices are close, the difference in the bundles are the content, but the point is that not everybody may want to get Mario 3D World and Nintendo Land, so a 250 U$ console without games is required to show that the price difference is actually there and is around 150 U$ and 200 U$, not just 100 U$.

The fire sale begins. MS and retailers must be really scared that the X1 is ready to falter

The way the ad reads, it could just be a "special" or "sale", but I think it will be permanent.

There will be some good deals but no official price cut. The official one will come in early to mid 2015.