No Wii price cut this holiday season.

No price cut but other announcements have been made.








So if you already own a Wii and play it by yourself you realize that it was one of the biggest mistakes you have made. The Wii only focuses on casual gaming which means anyone from a 4 year old to your 90 year old grandma. This means that the gaming industry has to shift focus into this type of market and mostly it doesn't pay off.

Nintendo has been so successful with the Wii that people who never purchased a console will pick one up and that is good enough for Nintendo. The Wii is the only console this generation to not have much in terms of a price drop. The console originally cost $250 at launch and that was back  in 2006. With the end of 2010 almost here Nintendo has no plans to cut the price of the Wii.

"Of course, we cannot say it will never happen, but we are not thinking of it for the near future," Iwata said at a Tokyo hotel, when asked about a possible price cut.

Iwata is relying on the new red versions of the Wii and DS to push sales this holiday season and the hype of the upcoming 3DS which is going to sell for $300 in Japan. No price announcement has been announced for the states but it's likely that the 3DS could sell for as low as $250 to as high as $300.

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