Just on the topic of pricecuts/deals:

Harvey Norman (Australia) is currently offering Wii's with free WSR for $388.

Also they have WSR and Tiger Woods 10 for $75 with free motion plus. I don't know if the Tiger Woods is the WM+ plus pack but it means you are getting 2 WM+ with WSR.

They should include a WM+ attachment and a demo for Wii Sports Resort and keep the price the same, making that the new Standard Wii bundle. At least then I'd be more inclined to believe they are serious about pushing WM+ as an integral part of the Wii rather than another optional peripheral.

Yes, in Canada it is only $20 cheaper than the PS3.

no way with NSMBWii and Wii fit plus and WSR and all the support from third party (believe it or not but wii is getting a lot of third party support this holiday and next year):)

maybe get out a black Metroid Prime Trilogy bundle for 299

You would have to pay me 500 dollars to buy that crap game again.

the fact that Wii has been out for nearly three years and hasn't gotten one price cut should tell you something.

They need to,the Wii is overpriced right now.

they should.
but they won't because they are making profits and people will buy it still for wii fit, and their evergreen games.
i would like sony to start outselling it so they compete, a cheaper wii for everyone.

It is the most overpriced console on the market currently, and has been for quite some time, given the low manufacturing costs.

But in the case of the Wii, dollar to value ratio has never been the system's key selling point, with the exception perhaps of the early adopters who were fortunate enough to actually find one at retail price (how many were actually hawked on e-bay for more? we'll never know).

Now I keep hearing a lot of "software drives hardware" statements, which is true (no compelling software = no sales), but when used as a reason why the console will not be seeing a price drop because of the claim the price drops only have a temporary effect (short term bump, followed by long term raised sustained sales is actually more accurate) the question has to be asked, at what point does Nintendo drop the price? Never? Of course not.

When Nintendo starts to miss or lower its sales projections will be the point at which they will have to find the right formula for a price strategy to sustain sales with the inclusion of lower price market demographics.

That's right; all the consumers who won't pay even $249 for a video game console, of which there are far more than those who will pay $249 for a console.

The question is, what is the price point at which the new price market demographic opens up? $199? $149? Probably both points, with a much larger market at $149.

Bundles may add value (or simply allow retailers to unload more product with one transaction), but what they don't do is lower the overall price.

And I realize there are some who want to believe that Nintendo can sell the Wii for $249 for ten years of production, but the reality is there will be a point at which the market for the Wii at that price will be tapped out from a sustained growth perspective. Only by adding lower price demographic consumers will they be able to substantially boost sales.

Maybe not this year, but once Nintendo starts missing its sales projections and the stock starts taking an appropriate hit (since games/game hardware are all that the company produces), they won't have the luxury of pretending they will never have to drop the price.

They should drop the price when the next big hit is released, since it really is saturating at the current price.