Nintendo: Wii price cut drove sales up 85%
Nintendo tells the
San Francisco Chronicle that sales of the Wii were up 85 percent week-to-week following the
September price drop. The Chronicle's piece is mostly an examination of Nintendo's challenges in
staying top console for a fourth Christmas in a row, with expectations that the console will have plenty of stock available this holiday for the first time since release.
The Wii may not have the explosive sales that it's maintained for the last few years, but Nintendo is still
swimming in cash. Perhaps a
slowdown in Wii sales can be seen as a good thing -- we know how Nintendo loves to introduce
hardware revisions when the going gets
tough slower.
[Via
Gamasutra]
