@lstormy10, A price drop doesn't really make sense, especially not one to $99. They'd be taking out 1/4 of their price, which they'd be stupid to do for a system that's selling as well as it is. I wouldn't rule out a $10-$15 price drop, but certainly not $30. I think dropping the price to $99 would be plausible if they were doing it to clear stock for a radically different DS, but not for what is essentially going to be a redesign of a redesign.
I would like to see what the thoughts of other members of the simExchange are on what the likeliness of a price cut for the Nintendo DS is for next year.
I believe that if Nintendo went ahead with a price cut to bring the DS down to to the price of $99.99 for the U.S., then the sales of the DS would pick up a great momentum next year that will carry the platform through the entire year and probably into part of 2009. If the DS is brought below the $100 sweet mark in the U.S. market and corresponding price drops come in the rest of the territories around the globe, then sales would experience quite the boost.
A price drop in 2008 for the DS is something that I believe is quite possible because of the last drop being quite sometime ago and the PSP price coming very close to the DS price. Also, Nintendo most likely can still make a nice profit on the DS even with a thirty dollar price drop. A Nintedo DS price drop down to $99.99 is one of the easiest and smartest moves that Nintendo can do for the platform for next year (other than release a Pikmin DS game - which I think would be totally awesome). I am going to go ahead and say that there is a better chance of a DS price drop next year than there is of not having one - I expect a DS price drop next year.
Key words "a bit," Gaara42. 1.53 million in November should lead to over 3 million in December. And with a 5-week December, I think sales should be closer to the 3.5 million forecast of a few hours ago than the current 2.75 million forecast.
"As of now, whichever store sells the lead DS lites gets the least (if any) Wiis. This isn't specific to a single retail chain, and it isn't just for the Christmas Holidays.
Nintendo's new policy is: sell more DS lites, get more Wiis. Sell less DS lites, get less than your usual share of Wiis (Which will then be given to the stores that ARE selling DS Lites)."
If true, that could spure sales of the DS, because retailer would advertise it (bundle it, special offer it) as much as possible.
As far as I know the DS was supply constraint last holiday season, it isn't this one. Not that I want to say our number could be to high, but thats maybe the reason the % is increasing, isn't it?
It will depend on November's numbers. The numbers you posted could be showing an increase in year over year as we get closer to the holidays...November's change could be higher than 35%, which would leave a 37% increase potentially undervalued.
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A price drop doesn't really make sense, especially not one to $99. They'd be taking out 1/4 of their price, which they'd be stupid to do for a system that's selling as well as it is. I wouldn't rule out a $10-$15 price drop, but certainly not $30. I think dropping the price to $99 would be plausible if they were doing it to clear stock for a radically different DS, but not for what is essentially going to be a redesign of a redesign.