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To: SmokingJoe
YOU are wrong.

And you are late, see 65.

As a matter of fact, for September, the Wii came in LAST

Given that the main selling point of the Wii was its much lower price, it was inevitable that the others would catch up if Nintendo didn't drastically lower the Wii price to keep it well below the others, which didn't happen.

Nintendo’s profits took a very sharp fall only a few weeks back.

That doesn't really hurt the financial strength of the company. Nintendo has been making money on each Wii since day 1, and the profit increased as manufacturing cost went lower. That profit just slowed down again. The XBox line, even with the current profit-making sales, still isn't even close to paying off its loss leader. The gaming division was already $4 billion in the hole when the 360 was released, and then proceeded to take a several hundred dollar loss on each 360 sold until 2008.

79 posted on 10/15/2010 2:28:46 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
Given that the main selling point of the Wii was its much lower price, it was inevitable that the others would catch up if Nintendo didn't drastically lower the Wii price to keep it well below the others, which didn't happen.

Nope.
Main selling price for the Wii was the motion sensing Wiimote novelty, and the games that went with it. The Wii is still a much cheaper(at $200) than the top selling 360 SKU right now(the 250 GB 360 “S” at $300), and that hasn't stopped the 360 from outselling the Wii for 4 straight months has it? The point is, the PS3 Move now does everything the Wiimote does and does it better, and it's in magnificient HD as well. So even at $300 for the PS3, the PS3 still outsold the Wii for September with the release of the PS3 Move. Microsoft's Kinect is experiencing excellent pre-order sales as of right now. I am gonna be expectoing the 360 to easily outsell the Wii for this comming holidays with the Kinect launch. Kinect already sold out at Gamestop in the US.

http://www.lazygamer.net/kinect-already-sold-out-at-gamestop-in-the-us/

Microsoft Kinect’s pre orders sell out!http://blog.gadgethelpline.com/microsoft-kinect%E2%80%99s-pre-orders-sell-out/

Xbox 360 is Top Console in September, Kinect Selling Out http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/news/xbox-360-is-top-console-in-september-kinect-selling-out/

81 posted on 10/15/2010 2:49:15 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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