Bad news, bargain hunters; Nintendo has gone on record saying there
are no imminent price cuts for the Nintendo Wii or DS. Satoru Iwata,
the company's president, said he did not believe in the "model" of
price slashing, as it tends to leave early adopters feeling a little
disheartened. Though we do agree, surely early adopters are well out of
their honeymoon phase by now? With Nintendo's profits
soaring to new heights, they're not exactly looking for a quick dollar,
so perhaps the move makes a little sense. Still, Nintendo is not
expecting to make as much cash on DS hardware sales in the coming year,
which means there are a few more eggs in a Wii basket somewhere. The
exact DS stats breakdown like this:
are no imminent price cuts for the Nintendo Wii or DS. Satoru Iwata,
the company's president, said he did not believe in the "model" of
price slashing, as it tends to leave early adopters feeling a little
disheartened. Though we do agree, surely early adopters are well out of
their honeymoon phase by now? With Nintendo's profits
soaring to new heights, they're not exactly looking for a quick dollar,
so perhaps the move makes a little sense. Still, Nintendo is not
expecting to make as much cash on DS hardware sales in the coming year,
which means there are a few more eggs in a Wii basket somewhere. The
exact DS stats breakdown like this:
The big N anticipates it
will shift 28.0 million DS units from now till March 2009, which is a
reduction in the numbers sold in the previous year, where 30.3 millions
units made their way to sweaty palms everywhere. Personally, I think
Nintendo have their figures wrong; it'll be 28,000,001 units, as I left
my DS on a flight I took yesterday. Life sucks. [Associated Press]
