My thoughts exactly.

@Tres, I agree, I don't know why Prime Trilogy would be bundled :P Definately include Wii Sports.

@amp: I disagree, Wii could sell well and be on track to meet its projection in the next month but PS3 sales could explode meaning that the combined HD system sales are high than Wii's. This means that even though Wii isn't affected, they're still losing market share. I don't think Nintendo would drop the price in this instance.

No. Price cuts are not a very good strategy. Cutting the price only leads to short term results. They will then lose profit from the loss on each console (or less revenue).

Cutting price is a Red Ocean strategy. Sony and Microsoft are aggressive in pricing because they are fighting against each other. They want that leg up on the other. Nintendo isn't competing on the same values, so they wont need to cut price.

No don't count the price the thing still sells. If it had a 50% decrease in sales then maybe.

Bring over the Black Wii.

If you think about it, Halo ODST, MW2 are games that will be adopted by that specific crowd - Halo and COD/MW fans. These people likely own their console of choice by now. I can't see it pulling in a whole lot of new gamers.

SMB4 gives something back to gamers that hasn't been had since the SNES - a platform, multiplayer Mario. I wouldn't underestimate this. Plus, WSR and WM+ are taking off nicely. With the holiday season, you'll see a lot of "holiday only" buyers picking these up en masse. Add in the first Survival Horror games of a well known series - Silent Hill, and it attracts even a different audience.

I wouldn't say the Wii is in a spot where it needs to react to the HD pricecuts yet. A black Wii would also do nicely for the "core" gamers.

@ puffy Next month the PS3's sales could explode? How's this going to happen? Did I miss something?

PS3's getting a price cut to $299.99 on September 1st I believe.

Uh... PS3 price cut already happended on Tuesday/Wednesday depending on where you were in the US and if you had access to Amazon.com.

I think a NSMB Wii bundle would be successful. If they're planning on shipping 10 million copies of NSMB Wii within this fiscal year, I think a bundle is possible.

The thing you have to understand is that Wii has never been competitive on a strict dollars/functionality scale, so competitor's prices have never really been an issue to them, because if the market was treating the value of each console on a level playing field (judging them from their technological capabilities), then Wii would never have been competitive in the first place (obviously the market sees different value in Wii)