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shams on 21 September 2009

The Wii's window for 50% has closed IMO. Its going to be very hard to get 50% any week now, with the lower prices for the other consoles.



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psrock on 21 September 2009
NJ5 said:
psrock said:
The demand is dying little by little. The Price drop will help, but the Wii was never about price since each holiday it seems to increase in price anyway if you found one.

Increase the price? What are you talking about?

The only price increase there has been was in UK as far as I know, and even then it's doubtful that retailers actually increased the price (eating the difference instead).

 

I am not talking about Nintendo increasing the price, but Retailers doing so with expensive bundles. The Wii prices were sometimes higher than the PS3 last holiday.



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Alby_da_Wolf on 21 September 2009
hsrob said:
It seems unlikely. It would require the Wii to outsell the HD consoles combined by about 3 million units before the end of the year, there just aren't enough weeks left.

This. As PS3 looks like it's gonna do quite well this Xmas, it would take XB360 doing really bad to make it possible.



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mike_intellivision on 21 September 2009

The suspected price cut will help the Wii stabilize and get back to around 49% market share.

And as it has been said previously, the Wii price cut puts it on par (in the US/NA) with the Xbox 360 Arcade. That is where the new sales will emerge.

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NJ5 on 21 September 2009
psrock said:
NJ5 said:
psrock said:
The demand is dying little by little. The Price drop will help, but the Wii was never about price since each holiday it seems to increase in price anyway if you found one.

Increase the price? What are you talking about?

The only price increase there has been was in UK as far as I know, and even then it's doubtful that retailers actually increased the price (eating the difference instead).

 

I am not talking about Nintendo increasing the price, but Retailers doing so with expensive bundles. The Wii prices were sometimes higher than the PS3 last holiday.

So you're saying that prices are increasing while demand is dropping... in what way does that mean that price is irrelevant?

If anything, it looks more like you're supporting the opposite.

 



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psrock on 21 September 2009
NJ5 said:
psrock said:
NJ5 said:
psrock said:
The demand is dying little by little. The Price drop will help, but the Wii was never about price since each holiday it seems to increase in price anyway if you found one.

Increase the price? What are you talking about?

The only price increase there has been was in UK as far as I know, and even then it's doubtful that retailers actually increased the price (eating the difference instead).

 

I am not talking about Nintendo increasing the price, but Retailers doing so with expensive bundles. The Wii prices were sometimes higher than the PS3 last holiday.

So you're saying that prices are increasing while demand is dropping... in what way does that mean that price is irrelevant?

If anything, it looks more like you're supporting the opposite.

 

no, I am saying the 249 price was never an issue in the past because retailers found ways to raised it with stupid bundles, now demand is not there as much, i dunno if 199 will make a difference.



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Alby_da_Wolf on 21 September 2009

^^
Even without "stupid bundles", you still have to add a pair of controllers to the supplied ones, not even taking into account Wii Motion+, if desired, if you want to fully enjoy Wii's potential, so I agree that Wii's real price must often be higher than its list price, while for PS360, not being "party value" their main feature, gamers doing mainly single player or online multiplayer may avoid further costs.
This said $/€199 price could make the difference, this way, buying one more Nunchuck and Wiimote and two WM+ the buyer will maybe still stay under $/€300 total.



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Ail on 21 September 2009

AT this point I don't think the Wii will ever reach 50% marketshare this gen.



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Alby_da_Wolf on 21 September 2009
Ail said:
AT this point I don't think the Wii will ever reach 50% marketshare this gen.

I think it could be possible if MS releases early XB720 and sends early into retirement XB360, leaving only Wii and PS3 to compete in the late 7th gen years.



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Ail on 21 September 2009
Alby_da_Wolf said:
Ail said:
AT this point I don't think the Wii will ever reach 50% marketshare this gen.

I think it could be possible if MS releases early XB720 and sends early into retirement XB360, leaving only Wii and PS3 to compete in the late 7th gen years.

MS has no reason to start early the next gen this time.

They must be fairly happy with the success of the 360 and they have no issue like last gen with Nvidia that would force them to start the next gen early...



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