The only reason Sony hasn't upped the price of the PS3 here is because the PS3 sells badly because of it's high price, and Sony knows it. thus they have increased the prices of other products instead.

The price of the Wii, despite what some will tell you, was never a major factor in stopping the Wii selling like it does.

Damn Nintendo gets blamed for everything.

Next someone will claim that Nintendo is at fault for all the fat people in the world...

*rapidly presses return button*.

Demand for every country's goods are falling. Why is it that out of the major currencies ours is being hit hardest?

You don't think that printing money and a 0% interest rate might have something to do with it?

Let's not forget the cut in Vat . I think the goverments extravagent borrowing is also damaging confidence in the economy, we're gonna pay for all these bail outs for years to come.

Id be a happy man if they bumped the price up to 350 in the us.

5 Trillion in profits wasn't enough? They have to make 5.5 trillion?

I mean really, they are making tons of money still, and taking one for the team really wouldnt have been that bad. $80 (US) pure profit on every console since launch, I can only imagine how much it has gone up since then even with the economy, it's a cheap piece of technology.

So for you, at what point is it acceptable to raise prices? How much do profits have to drop?

In the business world there's no such thing as "enough" profits, it depends on the company's strategy. If Nintendo isn't happy with their performance in UK and think they can do better by raising prices, they're entitled to do it.

I blame Nintendo, for Sony and Microsoft haven't raised their prices.

obviously they make plenty of profits worldwide, but nintendo's strategy hasn't been to sell their systems at a loss in any country, this isn't anything new.  I don't think it is for any of us to doubt Nintendo about their strategy when they haven't even had a loss since the company has started.  They have built a strategy that allows them to be profitable if their systems sells 20 million or 200 million.  Yet we have people praising Sony even though they have made 1/11 of the profits that Nintendo has made despite overall selling more systems (obviously excluding handhelds).