If you don't like the Nintendo's type of marketing/advertising sign this petition

http://tinypetition.com/Nintendo

I signed it, it has born yesterday so it's normal there aren't many signs...

@Buzzi: A petition? Haha. I believe Nintendo is aware of what people talk on message boards, so i doubt it will change anything.
Besides, seriously, who needs hype? No matter how a game is hyped, it's still not coming out before its release date. I'm personally more annoyed about hype than the lack of it. Maybe someone should make a petition for Nintendo to announce games a day prior to their release.

It's only a matter of time before the Wii reaches $99. It will take a while, but it's going to happen. When that happens, the Wii will reach PS2-like levels.

OMG, my first public prediction.

Nintendo made the same mistake that they did last year. They expected that with only a couple of games, sales would be sustained once again for a whole year. It failed last year with AC:City Folk and Wii Music. It's failing now with WSR and Wii Fit+, so they had to resort to a price cut or sales would have been abysmal in comparison to what they projected, since NSMBWii doesn't come until the end of the year.

They are in a very bad position if they still plan on releasing 2-3 big games/year. If NSMBWii doesn't have the desired effect and Nintendo keeps on releasing so few games, I can easily see the Wii price being dropped to 150 bucks by the end of next year.

It's Nintendo's and third parties fault for the lack of SW, which killed the momentum by creating disinterest in potential buyers towards the console.

Hype can be good if it's used in a reasonable proportion. It helps to keep the interest fresh on a game and console. For example check the Epic Mickey project, of course hype can get out of control and being annoying like Killzone 2 and its 30 daily posts on this site.

I don't the price was ever an issue, no. But with the entry price so low, you have less leverage with cutting it farther into the gen. We'll see how it pans out but it seems there is precious little outside of great games they can do in Japan at the moment.

@trestres: It's not about what they projected itself, it's about what they manufactured. Without the huge warehouse full of Wiis, Nintendo wouldn't have a need to drop the price even if sales were down, because what was caused by the lack of appealing software, can be corrected by making appealing software. Pricecut isn't going to cause sustaining effect anyway and once the warehouse is creared, Wii will be 250 again, this time the package will be added with WSR and WM+.

Obviously, by looking at Wii sales, their game release schedule have been appropriate for selling the system, it's only that Wii Music and Animal Crossing didn't perform as expected.
So far Nintendo have released its new kind of games with old kind of game, not quite sure what to think about WSR, Wii Fit Plus and NSMBW. WSR should fit into the "new" category, WF+ should be an old type of game due to being a direct sequel (kind of) and NSMBW had its predecessor on DS, which should make it an old type of game (then again, it's been a while since the last new 2D Mario on home consoles).

@Alfredodoylan: I meant that i like to get excited about games that exist, not about games that don't. We know that SMG2, Pikmin 3 and Zelda Wii are coming, but since they aren't released in the near future, i'm more annoyed about knowing that they are on the works. Or creating the hype about an upcoming game by showing videos in every expo available. I don't want to see a video, i want to see the game running on my console.

@bdbdbd: What are you talking about? The Wii has had a price drop, it won't ever go back to 250$

It's obviously not about their manufactured units anymore. Could have been if they have had any HW moving game throughout the year and those ended up not moving units, but now their projections were in risk of being off by so much that they had to do this, since the interest for the console has died and the console was seeing its worst weeks ever since launch, mainly because of the lack of games.

Poitential owners see no incentive in buying the console other than older games from 1 - 2 years ago. There has been nothing big this year. WSR didn't have an effect because the Wii itself comes bundled with the original Wii Sports. Wii Fit has been on shelves for 1 and half years and WF+ is the same game with a few added activities, so it obviously won't appeal to a whole new group of buyers.

NSMBWii is debatable, since there are already a lot of Mario fans who own the console, so the boost might not be as huge as everybody implies. Price cut was the only way out, but it won't last too long, unless they start bringing good SW to the console. If they have to moneyhat 3rd parties they have to. They are no longer in that dominant position they were last year. Even in Japan, according to the preview, Wii has been outsold by the PS3 this week.

IOI has said he expects 300,000 -350,000 this week numbers for the wii has also stated that in america sells are seem to increasing the following week (by initial data not finalized numbers).Which seems weird if price wasn't a factor since holiday spending does not start to later. And If you take past sales data from previous consoles that drop to under 200 in a generation received alot after their sales after.