The DS will need a price cut methinks.
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The fact remains that demand still exceeds supply. It makes zero sense to drop a price when supply cannot meet demand, as dropping the price will just raise demand even higher. But that reason is well understood, while the reason of buyer's remorse is not so well understood.
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Umm.. what exactly is the context here? He's probably talking about why price cuts too early in a console's life are a bad idea.
It's true that price cuts make the last people to buy a product at the old price feel ripped off, but that's unfortunately how things work.
It's true, a price drop too early in a console's life is a bad idea; it lends an image of an unstable market position. And it makes people hesitant to buy because they'll figure hey, if one price drop happened so soon, another will happen soon too. Usually Nintendo price drops come with some sort of change in the offering. For example, the first 'price drop' for the NES involved releasing the Control Deck set, which just came with the system and 1 controller, but was about $50 less. So old buyers didn't feel ripped off for having paid full price, since new buyers didn't get the second controller or SMB1 and Duck Hunt.
Though I can't see Nintendo dropping the Wii Sports bundle any time soon, as it's still selling the system more than anything else could hope to. Once Wii Fit takes that role over, though, we could well see a "Wii only" offering for $200 that excludes Wii Sports.
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| erikers said: Instead of leaving the gamers who bought early only feeling ripped off, now they can let everybody feel ripped off by not lowering it at all. Great point |
Yes, I'm sure they'd all rather be ripped off by ebay resellers than Nintendo.
I'm not surewhy you're complaining. Thinking of buying a Wii?
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Well maybe there will be a price cut in the 2010 fiscal year.
When Wii's stop selling out in less than a few hours worldwide then maybe we can start mentioning price cuts. Until then there's no reason to assume they will cut the price.
i don't find that insulting
he's trying to relate with the consumer
a price drop? are you kidding me? why should they? when they still are sold out?
when the Wii is still selling out the PS3 and the XBOX360 combined
If it isn't turnbased it isn't worth playing 
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| Naum said: a price drop? are you kidding me? why should they? when they still are sold out? when the Wii is still selling out the PS3 and the XBOX360 combined |
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