Nintendo is all about the profit rather then boosting sales.

Rarely will a pricecut actually make you a higher profit then what your already making.

Consider this situation... You sell a game for $50. It costs you 25 to make.

You make a profit of $25 per game and sell 100 to get a profit of 2500

Now say you cut the price % so it's 45 now.

So you make a proft of 20 per game.

You need to sell 125 copies just to break even... so with a 10% pricecut you now need to sell 25% more product just to get the same profit. 

Of course the Wii's successor is in progress. So is the 360's successor, and although Sony probably got all cocky and didn't start the PS3's successor when they should have, it's very likely that they've started working on it by now. This is just how the industry works: as soon as you finish one console, you start working on the next. It has no bearing on when the successor will actually be released: the point is to have one ready when it is needed, not to run the upgrade cycle as quickly as possible. Microsoft got a little mixed up about that last gen, but that's the sort of mistake that could be expected of a new company, and they seem to have learned from it this time.

Iwata isn't going to cut the price of the Wii because he doesn't need to. The system is still outselling the other two consoles even with it seeing a 'slow patch'. And now its starting to obtain its lions share of the third party support, with some of its best third party games coming out in the later half of this year.

When you combine these factors with continuing titles like Mario Kart and Smash Bros which still are selling well and the recently released WiiSportsResort, Nintendo doesn't need to drop the price.

sony did  ps2 days what wouldn't they?. oh yeah money.

i still do think it was the games, i find the wii abit over priced now, from technical point of view, it doesn't matter you are cheap if there isn't any software for it.

though 10 million for both games sound weird especially galaxy didn't got there.

If your machine isn't fighting in the same arena(WCW) and instead fights in a different arena(WWE) then there is no need to compete. People go to a different arena(WWE) for the different entertainment in regards to it's other values(wrestles and story). Though both provide the same form of entertainment.

There is no reason at this time for the Wii to do a price cut even if the opposition does. They just need to excite the current market and attract more people by improving the current lineup(story and roster).

WSR will easily reach this mark by March 2009. As for NSMB Wii I too find it hard to reach the 10 mil in this little time frame. Maybe they have planned something really big for the launch of this game. Let's see.

I'm never sure if I'm reading this right, but it seems that NSMB for the DS took over a year to hit 10m. I'm not sure if there's any reason why NSMB Wii would sell at such a faster rate (though I have no doubt that it will do very well). 10m by March 2010 seems like setting yourself up for failure.

And yeah, WSR can knock that out easily.

I remember before the N64 was even released my uncle at IBM said Nintendo was working on Project Dolphin. Nintendo also said that the Wiimote had been in the works for the past 10 years or so. Then at E3 2006 when the Wii was unvieled Miyamoto said Nintendo's next system would be an HD supporting platform.

To be honest I think the Wii's shortage of graphics was simply Nintendo trying to give us a cheap console. Nintendo wanted to give gamers a mainstream platform. I think Nintendo never stopped working on visuals since my uncle at IBM got a raise and is now hire up he says he's not allowed to talk about Nintendo's projects anymore.

I bet Nintendo's next console will be more powerful then the PS3. You never know how strong Nintendo will choose to make it. But I can gaurantee you Nintendo will make it as cheap as possible to yeild maximum profits like they have every generation since NES!

It doesn't matter what he says.

No company representative is stupid enough to admit they are price dropping without carefull planning before as that would kill Wii sales at the moment.

It will be anounced on some big event with few weeks warning.

Iwata saying he expects NSMBWii to hit 10 Million sold in a maximum of 5 months says a couple of things to me.

1. He expects that the multiplayer nature of it will keep it at the very top of the charts for the whole of that time due to word of mouth.

2. There will be a huge advertising campaign for this title.

3. A bundle is possible for the holidays.