buyers waiting for the rumor to come true???? if that's the case, how will the sales go from october????

i actually don't think Wii buyers are really concerned with the price as it was reasonably priced since day 1.

I think it's just slow time of the year.Trust me, wii will be fine.

No. The masses who are interested in the Wii usually don't have a clue about price drop rumours.

The low Wii sales is because it lost momentum for other reasons, and that's a trend that started 6 months ago, way before the price drop rumors.

@slimebeast

Couldn't have put it better myself. I blame Wii Music.

I think the Wii is far from being in trouble but i would have to concur with Slimebeast and say that the relatively low sales definitely predated any rumours about a price drop.

Nonetheless i agree that it will be interesting to see how sales go from October.

Maybe few thousands pieces last week or two. But lack of interesting new software is imho main reason.

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wait til NSMB Wii ..itll pick up fast

No. Most people won't have heard of these rumours.

Wii sales are low because of market saturation. It happens to all popular products. A price cut wouldn't do much to change that. New colours and a popular game (like NSMBWii among the Nintendo fans or Wii Fit + among the "casual" gamers) would do far more. But this holiday will most probably be below last year's, price cut or not. In my opinion.

Well price drop rumors haven't really been that rampant. Actually it is more akin to MS with the Arcade back in 2008. They were out there and became more definite about a week or 2 before but nothing widespread. Meaning the pricedrop is going to be something that a few educated know right about when it comes out and everything else builds off marketing and in-store knowledge. If you look at 360 sales in 2008 after the pricedrop you'll notice not a huge opening but a very steady and stable progression to it's huge holiday season.

Actually that's the norm for most pricedrops. The Wii pricedrop will probably be very similar, although considering it has yet to saturate a still huge market and still selling really well in it's lifecycle, it could have a much larger potential increase in the holiday season especially with very large key holiday titles along with ones that have been released as well.

PS3 pricedrop/new SKU was actually not the norm. Was something more like DSi, mainly because of the new SKU part. But had a lot of time where the rumors were rampant, became very mainstream, and obviously had a lot of people for over a year waiting for this to happen. Thus it got a much bigger increase on it's first week, but it has also led it to have much larger drops than usual which will continue this week and thereon. Less stable of course. Who knows where it'll stop but that's the difference.


So it's really hard to compare what is going on with Wii right now to PS3. Wii sales have already been around in this range and have held on pretty steady considering all the rumors. I would expect though, that we may not even see the effects of rumors because it's been kept out of the mainstream (which is great for pricedrops). Then of course a nice bump on first week and then will probably follow the patterns of 360 with steady progression, stabilization, and then big holiday bumps.