Again, your topic is about price cut being helpful, then somehow fail to include all the console which had price cut. The reason so many people are going after you is because common sense is missing from your thread.

Most people can tell trends after 1.5 months. NOT

Wii has been up week over week every week since the pricecut.

I'd say yes.

I wouldn't worry about it - this guy (yushire) is just a troll. Just look at the history of threads he's posted. When he gets tired of being called asinine in this one, he'll just start another with the same general theme.

Did I say holiday months? The wii sells double in month of September inspite of no pricecut.  like everyone here says the console sales are seasonal. Seem Nintendo only wants to bite that they cant chew. If the sales of the Wii doubled in the month of October in the next NPD then Im convinced the pricecut was working.

And as for ther WW thing, its official some countries especially UK have no preicecut so far. So theres no reason to pull out the WW numbers to prove that the pricecut was working.

Well this is a very strong definition of temporary. I mean technically nothing can stay on "heightened" levels when it comes to sales. Actually the argument you propose can be put towards the holiday season. And that because they start to go down after the holidays that the holiday sales weren't worth it.

The importance of a price cut is of course to reinvigorate not only sales but marketing and brand as well. I'd say Sony and Nintendo have both been very successful in doing that and MS was successful in doing it last year. Of course it won't last forever but it is still necessary to do. If companies knew they could do something that would allow it to sell at high paces forever... they'd do it. But for now, I'd say both price cuts have been received well and could potentially show some strength in the next 6-12 months too.

The idea is to move your product costwise downward, as soon as you can, so that you reach a larger audience of potential buyers, who then can buy more software and so on.  You seek to do this as profitably as ppossible

Anyway I dont want to make doom and gloom posts here but for the sake of the discussion...


http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=378306


Its news from reuters Ninty's profit was down 50 percent. Thats in spite of pricedrop and it seem the pricecut didnt do well for Nintendo. theres no hype after the pricecut. I think its game over already for the Wii. Its a good run the Wii will be in 60 M mark before the market saturated just like in the NES. And yeah before Ninty dished out a new console, and as for the DS and PS2 that everyone wants to debate here its a special case its more like market anomally. Even Pachter cant predict it. And yeah I always says Pachter in my posts now, because what he says in public was just for the LULZ. I mean 18 M MW2 in 12 months? If Pachter just didnt fooling around I just dont know what...


And for everyone thinking its the first half of the fiscal year so the pricecut included. The article just posted this week...

to be fair the PS3 was doing pethetic in the weeks leading up to the price cut... more important that just that is the fact that Microsoft was able to keep their sales stable and Nintendo wasn't untill they dropped the price 50 bucks... but sales in the US will be a big boon for both Microsoft and Sony this year... hopefully we wont see to much of a dip in sales with the Wii's dramatic drop in sales

Price drop = lower profits, who'da thunk it?