| Showertea said: I hope Nintendo doesn't drop the price of the wii. When the Wii is outselling the PS3 slim by a wide margin at only 50$ cheaper, the Sony Fanboys will explode. It'll be hilarious. |
That would be absolutely great.
So far Nintendo's strategy of consistently raising the price has worked pretty damned well.
Sales of Wii and extra controllers are slowing down? Add the chance to pay for a balance board to perk things up!
Wait, sales are slowing down again? throw in some M+'s to enjoy everything the system has to offer!
Japan's not so hot? Just wait till they have a chance to buy a Classic Controller Pro with a game!
If Nintendo is really serious about upping sales, they should start selling additional $50 "this is my Wii" stickers that people can buy. Sales will spike through the roof!
(yes I'm being silly)
I'm a mod, come to me if there's mod'n to do.
Chrizum is the best thing to happen to the internet, Period.
Serves me right for challenging his sales predictions!
Bet with dsisister44: Red Steel 2 will sell 1 million within it's first 365 days of sales.
exindguy said:
It would be far more accurate to say "price drop happens the day competitors' compelling software that utilizes motion controls are released"--coming out with motion controls, as little more than a 'me too' gesture, will have little-to-no-effect on Wii and that, I wager, is what keeps the execs at Sony and MS up at night. (For example, coming out with 'MS HD Sports' or 'Sony Motion Control Olympics' isn't going to get the job done but I'd bet staggering sums of money that that is about as creative as the execs at both Sony and MS will be: "we'll just clone Wii Sports and throw in HD graphics and we'll win!!") |
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
No, PS3 could be cheaper than the Wii and Wii will still outsell it. Not to sound like a fanboy but it's just the truth. Nintendo figured out how to appeal to the mass market with their console, Sony has yet to do this, at least this generation. And until they do, Wii will always outsell PS3.
Cutting the Gamecube price to $99 did nothing but give the machine a temporary boost.
As others have pointed out, the DS price has remained fairly steady since launch, even increasing with the DSi on the market. DS sales have finally began to slow, but only after reaching an install base of 100million plus. Even then, shipments for this financial year will be in the region of 30 million.
Nintendo are learning lessons all the time. That's what got them on top this generation, it's what stopped the PSP from usurping the handheld market, and it's what is going to keep them on top for this generation. They've learned from their mistakes very quickly, and only they truly understand the market they've reshaped and created.
Microsoft and Sony are still going to be playing catch up next year when their motion control offerings launch, and I think that's going to the time Nintendo cut prices. I'd expect a $100 price cut, and new Motion Plus/Balance board bundles to compliment a strong software lineup and the next peripheral. Not out of desperation, but to cut the legs from MS/Sony before they can become truly competitive in the motion control market and to give Nintendo time to move onto the next 'blue ocean'.
| sguy78 said: People do seem to forget that even though the Wii sales have been down lately, it still is handedly outselling it's competitors. |
True, but I don't think Nintendo cares about that. At the risk of making them sound incredibly arrogant, I really do think they consider Microsoft and Sony to be, well, irrelevant, at least for the most part.
Anyhow, Rol pretty much summed up my feelings, although I'll add the caveat that is NSMBWii (combined with Wii Sports Resort and Wii Fit+) somehow does fail to light a fire under the Wii's sales, we may well see a price cut next year.
On a slight tangent, am I the only one who suspects that Nintendo has something they think is big lined up for early next year, i.e. before the end of the fiscal year?
RolStoppable said:
NSMB Wii won't fail. It simply can't. (Unless it's praised by the hardcore.) And yes, you are the only one. How dare you to have positive expectations regarding the Wii. |
I'm sowwy...
This means my harcore-probation period has been extended again, doesn't it? Dagnabbit, I'm never going to be as cool as the hardcore kids...
megaman79 said:
Take a look at every million selling Carnival Games, Olympics, Wii Sports, etc, and that is exactly what natal and psmote will replicate. The problem is its already been done successfully years earlier and the mainstream awareness of where these games actually are isn't on PS or MS platforms, its never been.
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That's exactly my point: they expect to re-capture lighting in a bottle and do so at their own peril when they should be trying to find new ways to exploit the technology rather than making imitators of what has already come before.
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