Wii price not influenced by PS3/360
Nintendo exec denies being pushed.
Nintendo has denied that the US and Japanese price cuts to Wii have anything to do with recent cuts for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
"Not at all," was vice president of corporate affairs Denise Kaigler's assessment, speaking to GameSpot. "We were not driven by any other factors but our own business decision to do this.
"As I mentioned, this was timed to take place exactly when we're executing it. The holiday period is the best time for us to offer this great incentive for these consumers on the sidelines."
Kaigler refers there to the research Nintendo cited when announcing the price cut - $199 down from $249 in the US - that "there are 50 million Americans thinking about becoming gamers".
In the UK, meanwhile, Nintendo has announced a new bundle that adds Wii Sports Resort and a Wii MotionPlus to the existing Wii and Wii Sports package.
This is likely to retail for the roughly the same price as current Wii hardware following a dip amount trade buyers have to pay for their stock.
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I'm more surprised they didnt wait until the end of next month when the Christmas advertising push starts.
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Madworld? HOTD: Overkill? Dead Space: Extraction? Little King's Story? Zak and Wiki? No More Heroes? Broken Sword?
They are all 3rd-party, and that's just off the top of my head.
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As for Nintendo, yes we just raised the price and now we have dropped the price, not because of falling sales or competitor sales increasing...lol... but then i guess they couldnt actually say that.. Again another side effect of business.
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Hahahahahaha!!! YES You're TOTALLY right.. nintendo dont release ANY decent titles.. and microsoft publish such amazingly original and varied games as halo and forza...
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As for the article...Our ROEs have been rubbish since the current Gvt. got the BOE to print money, devaluing everything, and making prices worse for us outside our own country. It now costs much more to import so that's why we don't see a change for the Wii. Wii, PS3 and 360 prices have become more expensive to import so margins at the shops are really being squeezed if they keep the prices the same unless the price per unit is cheaper for Wii but markup is higher.
I am amazed at the price of the new PS3 Slim and almost tempted to get one soon.
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if ever there was a comment on videogaming that reflected the very narrow worldview of a 360 gamer and ignored reality and the magical dance of sales, profit and loss this is it.
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Same here. Got to pay for an engagement ring this month but November....think I'll be GTI Clubbing....