Wii pricing?
Published by dasme 2 years, 2 months ago in News.Nintendo has issued a press release today in combination with it’s yearly financial forecast. No specifics were given, but it looks like the Wii will not be more then $250 in the US, and Nintendo is planning on shipping a lot of them before the year ends. Full press release follows.
Nintendo Announces Wii Information, Worldwide Shipments
May 25, 2006
Following its overwhelming debut at E3 2006, Nintendo today announced the current fiscal year unit shipment forecast for its new home game system, Wii™. Nintendo also confirmed that the price of the Wii system, which incorporates unique freehand control, will not exceed $250 in America, or ¥25,000 in Japan. The company plans to ship 6 million systems to retailers around the world between its launch in the fourth quarter of 2006 and the end of its fiscal year on March 31, 2007.
The projections are part of a full-year financial forecast that sees growth of 18 percent in sales globally, based on anticipated continuing strong demand for the Nintendo DSâ„¢ portable game system, as well as a successful launch for Wii.
The company also said it expects to sell 17 million Wii games in the period. Exact launch dates, identification of the launch library of titles and details on the unique Virtual Console aspect of Wii will be announced soon.
“The Wii costs next to nothing to make but of course Nintendo got greedy and is selling these things with huge profit margins.”
How can you make such a ridiculous comment in light of the pricing of the XBOX and PSNewOne?? “Oh, it’s worth it because there’s so much candy inside!” As opposed to, say, “it’s worth it because there’s nothing else like it in the world, and it’s half of what the competition is charging for essentially the same thing!”