Nintendo rules out Wii price cut
With the upcoming holiday season, Nintendo ruled out a price cut. Already the game console is cheaper than PS3 and Xbox360. They have struggled with meeting the demands as it is, and a price cut would make it that much more difficult. Also, they will finally be selling the consoles in China next year, so meeting that demand as well as the rest of the world will be a challenge.
Already, Nintendo has shipped about 3.9 million Wii units around the world in the last three months, bringing the total since its launch last year to 13.2 million units.
Moreover, Nintendo unveiled a function that allows users to send each other games over the Internet using the Wii’s shopping channel. You can buy a game for a friend then send it to them as long as their Wii is hooked up to the Internet. There will also be a “Wii Fit” game due out later this year in Japan to buoy future sales. The game allows players to weigh themselves, check their balance and play fitness games like yoga, hula hoops and ski jumping.
I am not a videogame fanatic but I do really like the Wii. It’s more interactive and now it’s adding features that Xbox and PS have. I think its better for kids too because when I played it, your not entirely warped into the screen but sort of interact with who you are playing with unlike the other consoles.
Lauren Guida
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Do you have the URL from this news item? What will the new price be?
More so the problem with Nintendo’s Wii is that competition that it has. The graphic anf game on X-Box is crazy. My brother has Wii and I, personally wasn’t into it, but who knows like they say…”Holidays” and parent are looking for the cheaper price… and the Wii is alot cheaper. You know what maybe if Nintendo brings back the duck killing game more would be sold. I would but it atleast.GOOOD Luck Nintendo