Why the Wii Won't Get a Price Cut

In an interview with the Japanese website Touch-DS, Nintendo president
Satoru Iwata had some interesting things to say about hardware price
drops.

The Wii is the only console this generation not to receive a single price cut before.

Iwata went on to explain that he doesn't want early adopters to feel as
if they took a loss for supporting the console before a price drop hit
(this coming from the same company that flatly admitted they're holding
back the U.S. DSi launch in order to sell more DS Lites).

Perhaps Iwata makes a good point, but then again... the Wii can't stay
at $250 forever, can it? It does have to get a price drop at some
point, doesn't it?

Source: pcmag

Yes, if the product becomes unsuccessful, then Nintendo would have to cut down the price. But right now, it's still flying out of shelves and popularity is still higher than PS3 and Xbox 360.



Off topic, but I heard that Microsoft have cut down the price of Xbox 360 to only $200. Ever since, products have been flying off the shelves. But I still think that Wii's popularity is still higher than 360.

Sybex: ya seriouz? Yahoo! Wii pwns Xbox360!!!!!!!!!!