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Forums - Nintendo - Wii price drop confirmed: $199 starting this weekend

Zones on 23 September 2009

http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/wii-price-drop-confirmed-199-starting-this-weekend/

The rumors were true, and Nintendo's knight in shining armor is finally about to see its first-ever price drop. For nearly three years now, the console has sold briskly at $249.99, but beginning on September 27th at Best Buy (and everywhere else, naturally), the happy-go-lucky machine will be offered for just $199.99. Interestingly, it appears that suits at BB expect Nintendo to make an official announcement on the drop this Friday, yet retail stores won't begin selling at the discounted rate until Sunday. Something tells us that won't go over well, but we guess we've but a few days left 'til we find out exactly how the Big N plans to play this.



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SmokedHostage on 23 September 2009

Well this sucks.



Pixel Art can be fun.

trestres on 23 September 2009

What's that scan of?



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Zones on 23 September 2009
SmokedHostage said:
Well this sucks.

I know.



Zones on 23 September 2009
trestres said:

What's that scan of?

I don't know, but I double-checked my calendar and it is not April 1st.



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trestres on 23 September 2009

NVM, already figured out it's a Best Buy retail store email.

So it was true, defenders of the Blue Ocean strategy will be disappointed now.

Anyways it was time for Nintendo to do so, since interest has been going down at a steady rate for a long time now.



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tag - "I wouldn't trust gamespot, even if it was a live comparison."

Bets with Conegamer:

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Pandora's Tower will sell less than 100k lifetime in Japan.
Stakes: 1 week of avatar control for each one.

Fullfilled Prophecies

Simulacrum on 23 September 2009

Aw. This sucks.
I need to keep 1 month break from Vghchartz.



 

 

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Zones on 23 September 2009

trestres said:


So it was true, defenders of the Blue Ocean strategy will be disappointed now.

I think today is Hiroshi Yamauchi's most depressing day.



gamelover2000 on 23 September 2009

system sales will not rise by more then 20% after the first 2 weeks (so after the first 2 weeks itll be less then 230k



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megaman79 on 23 September 2009

why?

You people do not understand Nintendo at all. When they promise they will meet their projections they actually mean it. Not like Sony for the last decade.

If for no other reason they bump their market share, or keep it at 50%, after the launch of the competitors motion controls they have done their job of securing the tail end of this gen.



“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.