Wii not getting a price drop -- is that news?

You're Jack of No Trades, aren't you.

You're Jack of No Trades, aren't you!

im waiting for the next smash post, so i can rim you guys on the no motion control again.. seems like hit a nerve there.. (lol @ fernando)

Fatass, you aren't old enough to sit at the big boys' table yet. When you can learn to stop throwing up over every single thing, maybe we'll welcome you.

Actually, no, keep throwing up. Maybe bulimia may be just the spark you need to get your weight under the Shamu limit.

every nintendo post will feature phattie flamming. this is law in the outlands!

if you actually ate mcd's every day and were fat, would you really post a pic of yourself (or of someone else that's fat) and call yourself phattie?

of course not. by calling phattie "fat", you are going along with his joke. HE is the one that is mocking/parodying fat people. the fact that the best comeback you have to him is "haha you are fat" just makes you look retarded.

Fanboys, the only people on the planet who can instantly forget how flawed each others consoles are to attack other consoles for the same thing.

Hey sony boys, how's those SIXAXIS games going? I don't really see much motion sensing going on...

Jesus B. Christ, phattie!

Look, I am a Sony fan. Actually a fan of most systems but I have a slight biase towards Sony products. Anyway, I come here and find people like you being every bit as annoying as Fernando but from the other side. It's ridiculous, just stop. Because, somehow, your behavior gets linked to me. Guilt by association I guess. But regardless, just stop. Stop flaming the Wii. I have one and while it's not exactly my top system, it's still decent enough not to decry it. If you want to bitch about systems, here's a list. Tear into them all you want.

CDi
3DO
Odyssey II
Jaguar

Track those down and witchhunt them. They sucked.

Hahaha, phattie just admitted that he's waiting for the next Smash post so he can attack us. What a turd.

Here phattie: "Having more control options does not necessitate the use of all options at once." You think if Nintendo doesn't make a game that uses the remote, the nunchuck, the classic controller, the balance board, the WaveBird, and a Zapper all at once it's a failure?

Don't answer it, please.

Only *you* could interpret a report that the Wii doesn't need a price-drop to continue selling well as bad news for Nintendo.

Congratulations. You have all the intelligence of a chicken mcnugget.

PK FIRE!

companies don't do anything for charity. a private company doesn't need morality or kindness, they are only accountable to shareholder and the board. dropping the price is a way of increasing profits, not decreasing them. so when a company drops a product's price, it is an attempt to increase market share.

Yeah, but companies aren't supposed to come out and be so OBVIOUS that all they want is your dirty, dirty money. :D

Yeah, lowering the price would not help the Wii sell more, as I hear it's STILL gone the same day as it comes in, even now.

Though, lowering the price now would help make sure that the Wii STAYS sold out for longer, which is a better thing than the Wii becoming available, and once the glamor of a sold-out system is gone, and people see it's list of playable games is STILL in the single digits (basically).

Right now, the Wii is popular, because it's popular. Once that wears off, they better have many games out.

Dropping prices is done to increase profit by selling more total systems. It is too simplistic to look at the strategy of price dropping from the "well, the thing is/isn't selling great so I won't/will drop the price".

With the Wii, it is a matter of the Wii keeping up to their underpar manufacturing output, so why drop the price? It would only make sense if they actually increased manufacturing at the same time.

And really, it is possible to have a great selling product and choose to drop the price. If the Wii had better manufacturing output, they could very well drop to $200 if it meant enough increase in console sales.

With, say the PS3, the price drop is basically an acknowledgement that the thing can't be sold at its current price. There is a reason people freaked out when they first announced the price, and now we are seeing that come to fruitition.

I may have mispelled that last word. Deal with it.

Then again, this is "Free-Wiimote-Covers-For-Everyone" Nintendo. Who knows, they may drop prices to boost public image..... when people forget about the free Wiimote covers.

I dunno, ask phattie.

Nahh... he is busy eating his "nutritive" McDonald's breakfeast.

its a met-a-four ... can you say, met-a-four? .. otherwise, stay in skool

I met a four once. I figured I could do better and ditched her.

"its a met-a-four ... can you say, met-a-four? .. otherwise, stay in skool"

Actually, it's a simile seeing as how it made use of 'like' or 'as'.

And if it wanted to make sense, it would have read something like:

"and the Wiimote eats batteries like a fat kid [EATS A TYPE OF FOOD] at a buffet"

Well...was just making a joke, I guess it got lost in your stupidity.

You were trying to be a smart-ass. You also failed.

Also Phattie, it's spelled metaphor.
Fail x2.
Go to school.

I clicked on this post to comment on that very thing. I never knew fat kids ate batteries at buffets.

Mark C is correct on his response, " 'and the Wiimote eats batteries like a fat kid [EATS A TYPE OF FOOD] at a buffet' ."

I personally would have gone with macaroni and/or fried chicken skin.

hahaha @ 'fried chicken skin'

+1 for Anticrawl

I was just about to ask the same question. Now that would be news!

"its a met-a-four ... can you say, met-a-four?"

More like a met-a-three. It's missing something.

I say that, at launch, there was $200 worth of stuff in the North American package

but that's just dead reckoning, i have no data to back that up

I'm always surprised at people who don't know that rechargeable batteries exist.

My 2400mAh rechargeables have last me, well, since I bought them. Get weeks of play off them then throw them into the 30 minute charger.

Wii still the best console out.

Ditto.

i wouldn't say its the best but it comes in a decent 2nd in my opinion, i picked up excite truck last night and god damn that game rocks, its actually pretty deep for a racer, much better then motorstorm i might add, but as far as games go, the 360 remains king

Ummm, Vinny? I really hate to do this to you but seriously... do you even KNOW the stuff you talk about?

Excitetruck = Depth? What? When was this EVER the case? It certainly wasn't when the game was called Hydro Thunder and Midway made it. Basically, as you unlock vehicles, it's all a subtle stat balance and that's about it. But it's never a regressive balance. In other words, you ALWAYS unlock better cars, never adding to the choices presented to you to clear races, merely pushing you up a linear path towards faster speeds. Kinda like leveling in an RPG. "Welcome to Lv2, now you hit hard."

Also, the tracks lack any real interesting attributes to them. In other arcade racers like Hydro Thunder, Ridge Racer, Sega Rally Revo, and even Full Auto, the environments are busy, things going on. It's a staple of the genre, in all honesty. In Excitetruck, the only things that maintain interest in the environments are the changes you make yourself via the modifier powerups. I would be much more enthralled with the huge jumps if there was something to look at. Maybe a busy logging encampment or a highway off in the distance. Not to mention all the possibilities for ski lodging or helicopters in several of the environments. So for an arcade racer, the excitement in the environments themselves fell flat.

ExciteTruck is not a bad game per se. It's just an arcade racer than exists in a valley of giants. Hopefully majority of these issues will be fixed for the sequel including the all important noticable missing feature, four player splitscreen. To call it deep though is quite funny.

But better than Motorstorm? Well, I guess it's all opinion but there is a hell of a lot more depth to Motorstorm than Excitetruck. But it falters on many other aspects such as being online multiplayer only or not being able to create your own single player races. Gotta find that event ticket...

But of the two, both are pretty readily stomped by other arcade racers such as Sega Rally Revo and Ridge Racer 7. Sad, but true.

since these comments are probably the only social interactions that you enjoy in your life, i'm going to let this one slide.

Well Granted... you spend your time here as much as I do.

Sometimes I wonder, do you troll on other websites. Because seriously, I doubt you would make it past your first "Ban-Hammer Monday" at Kotaku.

But anyway back on topic. If any place needs a drop its Japan, its the only territory where the sales are sluggish.

Sorry for the double post earlier (once again, edit/delete button FTW).

Thats because kotaku sucks.

I like Kotaku.

Yeah, I take that back. Kotaku isn't bad...







...FOR ME TO POOP ON!!!

ill read destructoid over kotaku any day

I think we all know the best site is http://www.4colorrebellion.com

Kotaku sucks; it’s full of failure and AIDS.

Really Kotaku feels like a fascist extension of /b/ there is furry, hentai, racism etc but don’t you dare to do it yourself or else, also Kotaku posters suck and the stupid idea of let posters ban other posters is plain retarded you only let gangs take over the place and make the minority which would be PSP,Ps3 and some XB360 supporters suffer but then again if you are a hardcore gamer what the eff are you doing in kotaku they only cover sh*t unless you consider news about a new Japanese pedophile game something important

So basically Kotaku sucks because is unfriendly to new posters, their news section suck they only cover hentai figures and dog crap that looks like Mario and their editors are furf*gs, seriously they do have an obsession for furry in kotaku.

Ooooooh, I know SOMEONE got the Kotaku Banhammer dropped on his ass!

But seriously...after the clusterfuck of all the Nintendo/Wii flame-fests yesterday, it becomes hard to deny the merits of a walled community sometimes.
(Not that I'm always a saint, either, mind you...)

JodyAnthony is correct. I love 4colorrebellion that I check that gaming site first.

You generally don't raise the price on a consumer electronic item like that at the factory/manufacturer level, unless the shortages are caused by increased costs to manufacture and such. In a case of simple high demand, the cost usually goes up through retailers getting greedy. So, no, that would be a bad move economically, as the purchasers would feel slighted and could cause the bottom to fall out.

Thats my 2 cents - not worth much more.