Evidence for Console Price Cuts

Next Generation offers up an exhaustive analysis of previous console generation price cuts, and concludes that we are definitely due for some cheaper next-gen action sometime in the near future. The piece includes charts of lowering system prices, as well as a breakdown of how many consoles sold at various price tiers. "Certainly we can use history as a guide, but there are limits to its use for prognostication. The price drops this generation may happen in ways entirely different from what has been suggested above. Maybe the $300 console this generation will be what the $200 console was last generation. Maybe Microsoft will forge ahead with its current price structure until after Halo 3 has come and gone. Maybe Sony will bless the PlayStation 3 with a 33% price drop sometime this year. And maybe Nintendo will give the Wii a small price drop by removing Wii Sports from the package. Those could happen, but don't bet on it."

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i dunno about wii sports

[rubberbandball]

Nintendo should probably de-bundle wii sports and instead sell the wii with mario party. I paid $40 for the most highly anticipated game since LoZ:TP at circuit city to learn that (after a near 3 month delay) the actual gameplay doesn't support 16:9 resolution, and that there are no sound/video options whatsoever. The cutscenes (if they so can be called) are in 16:9. basically, you're playing mario party 5 with a wii controller on your 50" panasonic plasma, and you've got 4 inch borders on each side of the screen. meanwhile, i could play Mario Party 5 on my wii and have full screen support, allbeit stretched, but fullscreen. now i get to wait til (at least) august for Metroid Prime 3. thank god i can play baten kaitos origins (which is fullscreened, btw) on my fancy new gamecube until then.