Comments on: Nintendo don’t crow about 600,000 Wiis: Microsoft is talking price wars

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By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:12:59 +0000

I’m glad someone mentioned that price doesn’t matter. A more expensive console won the last two “wars,” and before that the Sega Genesis lost despite a TWO year lead.

For all the spin, the XBox 360 is performing poorly. Its merely matching the originals performance to this point (the original got beat by the PS2 4 times over, and just barely edged the profitable Gamecube,) and only very recently has the hardware started making a profit- though the division as a whole is still in the red. As a whole, I think the total losses of the line are around 6 billion dollars. For a 30 billion dollar company like Nintendo or a 40 billion dollar company like Sony, this would be an epic disaster. For a 200 billion dollar company, I guess its a “growth market.”

By: Razak

Razak — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:52:21 +0000

I think it is good to keep in mind that while yes Microsoft has 7 million units sold and Nintendo has well over 600,000, and this is not a small difference… Microsoft took far more time to get their first million sold than Nintendo is taking. To put this into perspective, Microsoft launched last year on November 22 and by December 31 of 2005 they sold about 900,000 units in the U.S. At Nintendo’s current rate the Wii will sell more units in the U.S. in its first 3 weeks than Microsoft sold in it’s first 6. This is an astounding fact, and Japan is launching this weekend which I’m sure will really make Nintendo’s numbers make Microsoft’s first month numbers look like piddle. (Not sure if Microsoft has even sold 1 million in Japan to this date and I bet Nintendo will get there by years end.)

My basic point is that if Nintendo can maintain this momentum (and with games like Mario Galaxy, Smash Brothers, Big Brain Acadmey, Metroid, and WarioWare due out throughout the year next year I think they can), Nintendo won’t have a hard time “catching up” to Microsoft’s numbers.

As to the thought of a price war.. I laughed at that… Microsoft has the ability to start a price war with Sony, Nintendo already started it. Guess what, Microsoft is still losing money on their system, Nintendo is making money on theirs, do you really think that a Price War will break Nintendo’s console division? Hell they dropped the Gamecube to $100 2 years ago, this system is just slightly better than that… I bet they could easily get down to $150 tomorrow if they dropped Wii Sports and were willing to take a $50 loss on the console (where Microsoft is currently losing more than $50 on their “cough” $399 *cough* console)

By: Fearsomepirate

Fearsomepirate — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:22:32 +0000

I seem to recall Gamecube having a massive cost/price advantage last gen and being more powerful than the PS2. I also seem to recall Dreamcast being cheaper than PS2 by a good clip.

It’s not all about price.

By: Churchie

Churchie — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:55:02 +0000

The “Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess” game is simply dominating the market. They’ve kept all of us dedicated “Zelda” fans waiting for what feels like forever. I do think that they could have came up with a better name though…