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TWRoO on 13 July 2008

Actually it was $200 I believe (the same price as all their previous consoles) they increased the launch price due to everyones enthusiasm for it.

So if Nintendo had kept the price at $200 the likely reason they would have done so is because there wasn't such a huge consumer interest and as such it probably would have sold fewer units.

If the only difference was the price however, then it would have sold roughly the same by now.



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celine on 13 July 2008
OoSnap said:

I read that Nintendo initially wanted to sell the Wii for $100. Hypothetically, if the Wii was $100 how many Wiis you think would have been sold at this point in time assuming Nintendo could have met demand? And do you think Nintendo would have made back the money for selling the console less than it cost to produce?

That was Miyamoto and at that price that hardware wouldn't have all the wii features ( It would be a different system ).

So useless question. 

 



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