For the first few months, I got rather tired of people saying "why are their shortages? It's old technology!", as if the systems would build themselves because there's no BluRay drive :p
I agree that they'll drop the price when demand slow a bit, but I don't see that happening until maybe next year (maybe). By then they'll be making even more money off each system and will be able to drop the price while maintaining a huge profit margin. Right now the price of the system clearly isn't an issue with consumers.
I will predict that Nintendo will have shipped out 15 million systems by the one year anniversary of the system easily (which would be with only a small increase to current sales levels). If they can get enough new suppliers online in the next couple months, I think 20 million by X-Mas could even be possible (though not very likely).
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For the first few months, I got rather tired of people saying "why are their shortages? It's old technology!", as if the systems would build themselves because there's no BluRay drive :p
I agree that they'll drop the price when demand slow a bit, but I don't see that happening until maybe next year (maybe). By then they'll be making even more money off each system and will be able to drop the price while maintaining a huge profit margin. Right now the price of the system clearly isn't an issue with consumers.
I will predict that Nintendo will have shipped out 15 million systems by the one year anniversary of the system easily (which would be with only a small increase to current sales levels). If they can get enough new suppliers online in the next couple months, I think 20 million by X-Mas could even be possible (though not very likely).