IDC Expecting Nintendo to Issue Wii U Price Drop at the end of 2014

By Jorge Ba-oh 06.05.2014 2

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Research group International Data Corporation (IDC) is expecting Nintendo to issue a retailer price cut for the Wii U in the coming months.

In a report that's predicting the the performance of the three main home consoles, IDC is expecting PlayStation 4 to maintain it's lead of the current generation, with around 51 million sold globally by 2016. However, IDC also anticipates that Xbox One could have a comeback in North America if Microsoft removes Kinect from the equation.

As for Nintendo Wii U, IDC expects Nintendo to drop the Wii U by as much as $50 worldwide by "late 2014 or early 2015", but feels that it still won't impact sales of the other two platform holders.

Do you think a price-drop is in order for Nintendo Wii U?

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JoshSL is offline. JoshSL 06.05.2014#1

9/10 times analysts predict a price drop, they're wrong. The 1/10 times they're right, they're all like "SEE WE TOLD YOU" and the uninformed are like "WHOA ANALYSTS ARE SMRT"

If they keep predicting a price drop every quarter of every year, then yeah they're gonna get it right eventually, imagine that. How much do these people get paid for talking out their asses again?

Aaanyway, my own two cents is that a $50 drop isn't enough. Many retailers are already selling it for around $50 less than RRP. That sort of price drop is going to make ripples at best. Price drops that make a splash and help turn around a system's fortunes arrive alongside rebranding and relaunching (i.e. late-decade PS3), and they're big price drops that everyone notices.

It's like that auction minigame in Wind Waker ok. No one cares if you throw 2 or 3 Rupees higher, but if you raise the last offer by dozens you shock everyone and in the end you get to pay less for the prize because everyone was too shocked to fight back. Drop the price by a lot and consumers, press, everyone will be too shocked and drowned in the sudden-ness and hype of it all that they won't complain.

So that's why I think/hope these guys are wrong, because $50 isn't a big enough drop to make a splash, and if Nintendo are serious about fixing their financial situation they hopefully have done enough research to know that much.

EDIT: I just thought it was worth mentioning that the initials for this company are "IDC". Which is one thing I can actually agree with. "idc" about their paid-prediction. *bows*

( Edited 06.05.2014 23:54 by SuperLink )

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kingdom (guest) 07.05.2014#2

If IDC knew all of Nintendo's plans all their pending announcements etc and for the period they claim which appears to something like 5 years.

Well then they'd be right. Nintendo would be doing something very wrong.

I think it's considered somewhat audadcious for humans to claim to know the future.

But what I really think is that I'd feel very confident playing chess against the combined and highly paid might of the IDC. They wouldn't intimidate me in the the slightest.

I also think I'd win that game.

I know it's not a very good comment if I just leave at that but don't want to write some long thing again.

So that's it: I'm not that good at chess but I know that much: that in order to be realistically expected to make a logical deduction one must have some kind of Intel even if just a morsel.

And I'm pretty sure Nintendo don't have any morsels spare for the IDC so I would suggest my own logical deduction: that I would win that game of chess.

Thanks anyway IDC for your commentary, however, commentary is best offered for things that one has a genuine interest in.

Which is why it is innapropriate for me to provide my commentary on whether anyone will be interested in paying for the IDC's opinion in 2016 or whenever these beings claim to come from.

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