You also said the PS3 price wouldn't drop this year.

 Well I'm pretty shocked the PS3's price is dropping so soon.  It's a bad sign for Sony, though a price cut will help them.

PS1 price dropped around the same time, Xbox price dropped sooner and GC as well.

The price drop can only be a good thing for Sony in the bigger picture.

As for the Wii, why would someone drop the price on a product that is selling out? Makes no fuckin' sense at all...

Sorry I underestimated Sony's desperation, pity I gave Sony more benefit of the doubt than anyone else here including the Sony supporters. So tell me then, what sound reasoning have you to support a Wii price drop then hmmmmm? How about you take it up with Ckmlb if you're so confident in your stance since he agrees with me on the ludicrusy of such an idea.

Well if Nintendo continues to fail to produce enough, indicating they suck at producing hardware, then perhaps it will continue to sell out. Sales could slow down relative to the 360 and PS3.  By lowering it to $200, maybe by getting rid of Wii Sports as an option, they could maintain momentum.

There is no point to do it right now, sure. Also, M$ is paying a billion to fix their consoles so they might not be able to drop the price to counter Sony. We'll see.

1. Nintendo is not the one producing the Wii, its a contracted production company that is, now two companies to keep up with the demand. They had no clue the Wii would be as popular as it is and its perfectly understandable that this situation arised, even you, someone who I'm sure thought the Wii would not do well has no right to have expected Nintendo to have anticipated this demand. Sorry the PS3 and 360 aren't popular enough to have these same problems, in fact I bet they wish they were in a position where they could have this problem.

2. Wii sports doesn't cost more than five dollars to include and removing it as well as lowering the price would only hurt Nintendo. Face it there is no logic, no reason for Nintendo to lower their price until their sales slow.

3. No reason to do it now? Of course not! In fact, No reason to do it for another year if not longer. The Wii is an ideal item as is and until its sales start to suffer, there is no reason to cut its price.

I also appreciate the fanboyish jab at the Wii's availability, I swear you'll try and find anything to attack the Wii with no matter how trivial or in matterial to the point.

 So you're saying that Nintendo is failing to produce Wii's?  So around the area of 1million per month isn't enough?  Please.

 Truth is, Nintendo doesn't need a price drop right now because they are selling out every month.  Why would they reduce their price if they are selling out every month?  They obviously can't make sales go any higher and they would only make $50 less on every sale.  Wii's are going to continue to sell out through the holidays and even after that the price isn't going to drop for a good while.

 As for the losing only $20 Rocketpig, you're an idiot.  You say you're counting in the price of controllers but I don't think you realize just how much you lose for every controller you sell and then buy back.

but....sony is dropping its price.....Nintendo has to drop its price too, now that the P$3 will be 500$ a Wii at half that price just can´t compete.......it just doesn´t make any sence........ oh whait it does make sence, Nintendo can just whait for demand to weaken, we all now this happens right before the AAA titles come out or right before the hollydays or when one person on the internet sells it, ( I can see hundreds of stockbrockers on wallstreet scream: "Rocketpig just got rid of his Wii ??? OMG SELL SELL SELL" )

seriously people, the only one who will drop price is MS and only if they feel like Sonys pricecut is really hurting the 360, I also didn´t think the PS3 price would come down this fast, if I already had one I´d be a little pissed but would understand Sonys point, if the PS3 drops another 100$ this year they better start selling like hotcakes, but I´m looking forward to the Sony executives explaining how this was their plan from day one, give me some popcorn and a coke and bring on the trash talk.

Hmmz it is a bit strange, Sony deayed the PS3 for a year and then asked 600$ for it, 500$ should have been the launch price.
As I see it, many fans have payed 100$ to play the PS3 for 7 months, rocketpig only had to pay 70$ ;).
And if he was smart he could have earned money on it.

For anyone who has problems with the Wii not having enough games in its first year, don't buy another system in its first year. First year's always suck game wise, save your money and wait for the second or third year. The Wii hasn't had that bad a first year compared with prior systems (or the PS3) but nevertheless first years suck. That's the reason why I didn't buy an Xbox or DS for almost 2 years after they came, despite wanting to play 1 or 2 games on them.

For anyone (well, windbane) who thinks Nintendo should be producing more, how did they screw up by not making a massive financial bet on going from poor GC level sales to best initial sales of any video game console in history? Production has certainly gone up but we're in the holidays stockpile period so it's not surprising we haven't seen it in sales yet. The ramp up in production (assuming as I am that it has happened) will be seen in holiday sales.  At any rate, until holiday shopping starts keeping the Wii a just out of supply gotta buy it the moment you see it buzz item suites Nintendo's interests just fine.