We all know that the Wii hasn't seen a price decrease since launch, and considering how well it sells, why would you.  It i also clear that with a combination of the passing of time and the global financial mess, the sales have levelled a little, whilst still knocking the competition around.   
 
So how do you give a price decrease without actually decreasing the price? 
 
I don't know about the rest of the world, but in Australia, you bundle Wii Sports Resort with the console. 
 
A major department store in Australia, clearly in conjunction with Nintendo, is doing that, and my friends tell it is flying out.  The console is $399 and Wii Sports Resort is $99, but they are bundled for $388.  This is very clever marketing on Nintendos part and appears to be working, but more importantly, it is getting even more Motion Plus attachments out there.  This will only drive more games to use it and that can only be good for all of us. 
 
So that is Australia, what are Nintendo doing to push sales in your part of the world and what do you think of this type of sales method?

If I didnt already have the Wii thats probably how they would have finally got me, bundling in the Motion Plus Wii Resort with the console. As it is I have held off from getting Wii Resort but I'll probably pick up a copy next Wednesday.

" If Wii Sports didn't sell the system to some people, I doubt Wii Sports Resort would be any different. "

Everyone bought it at launch and then either sold it to someone else or hasn't used it since. Everyone knows Wii sales figures are a down right fabrication.

" If I didnt already have the Wii thats probably how they would have finally got me, bundling in the Motion Plus Wii Resort with the console. As it is I have held off from getting Wii Resort but I'll probably pick up a copy next Wednesday. "

" Everyone bought it at launch and then either sold it to someone else or hasn't used it since. Everyone knows Wii sales figures are a down right fabrication. "

Well in Japan they got Monster Hunter 3 and the black Wii and in the first week that boosted Wii unit sales to about 95K and in the second week to almost 60K, from a previous average of > 20K weekly. For comparison, the PS3's weekly sales there average <10K, but were <6K in that second week. The Wii will have a stream of other notable titles there within the year (like Crystal Bearers I think) so it will hopefully all help it.
 
Where I live though they aren't doing shit. There's no real Nintendo of Greece, they do it through a different company, Nortec, and they suck. I wish they'd drop them and just give us the UK versions or something, it's not like they get translated here, at most you get the back of the box, and maybe the manual, so speaking another European language is still a must if you want to play the games. They also publish some third party Wii games here. Those tend to have bad box quality, stickers that can rip the plastic and the translated instructions are a single b&w photocopied page. There's also next to no advertising push. We're probably the only country where the Wii sold/sells like shit, thanks to Nortec. I got it close to launch yet the store, one of the largest chains here, had no pamphlets or anything, and the Wiis were way at the back, out of view.

" Well in Japan they got Monster Hunter 3 and the black wii and in the first week it boosted Wii unit sales to about 100K (from the usual 20K) and on the second week almost 60K. For comparison the PS3's weekly sales there average <10K, but were <6K in that second week. The Wii will have a stream of other notable titles there within the year (like Crystal Bearers I think) so it will hopefully all help it keep the momentum. Where I live though they aren't doing shit. There's no real Nintendo of Greece, they do it through a different company, Nortec, and they suck. I wish they'd drop them and just give us the UK versions or something, it's not like they get translated here, at most you get the back of the box, and maybe the manual, so speaking another European language is still a must if you want to play the games. They also publish some third party Wii games here and those tend to have bad box quality and stickers that can rip the plastic encasing when you pull them off. There's also next to no advertising push. We're probably the only country where the Wii sold/sells like shit, thanks to Nortec. I got it close to launch yet the store, one of the largest chains here, had no pamphlets or anything, and the Wiis were way at the back, out of view. "

" @oldschool: Is there anything else available already that haa Motion Plus support? I was really hoping Ashes 2009 would and sadly it doesn't, though not as sad as the fact that it still isnt out on the Wii yet. I am not sure how much lasting appeal Resort will have for me. "

" Everyone bought it at launch and then either sold it to someone else or hasn't used it since. Everyone knows Wii sales figures are a down right fabrication. "

" @keyhunter said:

" Everyone bought it at launch and then either sold it to someone else or hasn't used it since. Everyone knows Wii sales figures are a down right fabrication. "

I believe sales figures are based on retail sales, not on some dude selling it to his friend. And even if it was traded in to a store (like Gamestop), and they counted the sale of that Wii again, it doesn't matter. A sale is a sale whether it was sold twice or not. "

" @PureRok: You should probably learn to read before you go on saying something in reply to what I said. "

I'm getting a little cynical about "having more MotionPlus units out there" now that I have read Metroid: Other M is another first party game that won't support the peripheral, after NSMB and Wii Fit Plus. And most probably almost all of Nintendos 09/10 games. >:(

The Wii does not need to sell more. It's still selling like nothing else in the history of videogames. Pundits say the Wii is in trouble, but it's still doing a couple of times better than the other consoles.

Eh, Other M and NSMBWii are "just" side scrollers, M+ is no biggie for them. At most you get some shake like in Wario Land or something...
 
Wii Fit Plus should have used it though, but I guess it really is a mere update to Wii Fit, they don't want it competing with Wii Sports Resort...
 
From the games we know they're making (supposdelly several secret projects on top) it's announced for where it actually fits really (Zelda).

  @Willy105 said:

" The Wii does not need to sell more. It's still selling like nothing else in the history of videogames. Pundits say the Wii is in trouble, but it's still doing a couple of times better than the other consoles. "

" I'm getting a little cynical about "having more MotionPlus units out there" now that I have read Metroid: Other M is another first party game that won't support the peripheral, after NSMB and Wii Fit Plus. And most probably almost all of Nintendos 09/10 games. >:( "

" @keyhunter said:

" @PureRok: You should probably learn to read before you go on saying something in reply to what I said. "

I am just curious though - are you saying that the 50 million plus sales are a fabrication?  Is that the same for Xbox 360 and PS3?  Could you provide me with some kind of link that purports to show that there hasn't been 50 million plus Wiis sold throughout the world? "

" @oldschool said:

" @keyhunter said:

" @PureRok: You should probably learn to read before you go on saying something in reply to what I said. "

I am just curious though - are you saying that the 50 million plus sales are a fabrication?  Is that the same for Xbox 360 and PS3?  Could you provide me with some kind of link that purports to show that there hasn't been 50 million plus Wiis sold throughout the world? "

I think what he is referring to is the graph showing the amount of playing time per (week? month? dunno) that was put out recently. I'll try to find the link to the article, but it showed that the wii had less playing time, on average, than even the gamecube and original xbox. "

" @jukezypoo said:

" @oldschool said:

" @keyhunter said:

" @PureRok: You should probably learn to read before you go on saying something in reply to what I said. "

I am just curious though - are you saying that the 50 million plus sales are a fabrication?  Is that the same for Xbox 360 and PS3?  Could you provide me with some kind of link that purports to show that there hasn't been 50 million plus Wiis sold throughout the world? "

I think what he is referring to is the graph showing the amount of playing time per (week? month? dunno) that was put out recently. I'll try to find the link to the article, but it showed that the wii had less playing time, on average, than even the gamecube and original xbox. "

That isn't sales as a fabrication though.  As for play time, sure, some people are not hardcore gamers and they are the new market, so they don't play as much, plus, that is reliant on people being online as well (who is to say the new audience use the Wii online).  Hardly comparable to "everyone hasn't played it since launch".  Extreme statements are hardly conducive to sensible debate.  I would just like him to explain his commentsso I can understand his point. "

" The Wii does not need to sell more. It's still selling like nothing else in the history of videogames. Pundits say the Wii is in trouble, but it's still doing a couple of times better than the other consoles. "

Will clearly meant it doesn't need to sell more because it's already selling enough since it's selling more than the competition. So, it doesn't need to sell more as in, more than it does already, rather than, it doesn't need to sell a single unit more. That is absolutely correct, not wrong. No, they don't just care how it sells NOW, the existing install base clearly has advantages for revenue, as does the accumulated profit. A great track record is a great track record, even if the spree comes to an end at some point. It's happened before, but the company remains strong.

Also, Japan is where it's slowed down the most, so that's where the success wasn't guaranteed, though with recent moves it picked up again. Lol at it being "easy" there considering Microsoft hasn't managed to penetrate the market despite all their efforts in attracting that kind of gamer with plenty JRPGs, and also how Sony hasn't managed to approach Nintendo's success, and also how even before Monster Hunter 3 the Wii was consistently selling twice as much as the PS3, week after week after week, as the Media Create (and Famitsu, and Dengeki) Sales show. The home console market in general has shrunk in Japan where the handhelds clearly dominate, it's certainly not "easy" to do good there. As for the rest of the world you say "it's barely outselling the 360" as if that's an indication of doing bad or something. How about "it's still the market leader with 50 million users and others playing catch up" instead? Does that sound better? Outside of Japan the Wii never stopped dominating, even recent reports of how the 360 outsold it for 2009 so far, turned out to be flat out false. Even so, Nintendo simply does great business.

In the last generation they were a distant third place, and despite not having any other activities to fall back to, being primarily a video games company unlike Microsoft and Sony, they came out of it profitable and in great health. They'd be fine and likely be the clear "winners" of the generation even if they really didn't sell a single unit more, as long as they could predict that much and not manufacture excess units. They've had the most growth and most profit. Of course this is all a "what if" scenario, not something tha'ts going to happen any time soon. The generation clearly belongs to Nintendo, they aren't falling to third place before the next one begins, where everyone can retry to grab the market.

" @keyhunter said:

" @PureRok: You should probably learn to read before you go on saying something in reply to what I said. "

I am just curious though - are you saying that the 50 million plus sales are a fabrication?  Is that the same for Xbox 360 and PS3?  Could you provide me with some kind of link that purports to show that there hasn't been 50 million plus Wiis sold throughout the world? "

" @PureRok: You should probably learn to read before you go on saying something in reply to what I said. "

" Everyone bought it at launch and then either sold it to someone else or hasn't used it since. Everyone knows Wii sales figures are a down right fabrication. "

I don't know why people are dissapointed that M+ isn't comming out in games like Metroid: Other M because there's no real way  that it could benifit the experience. Of course you'll be bummed if it isn't being supported in your favourite Tennis or prehaps driving game but for a sidescroller? I guess it would be cool if all games supprted it, though. Most motion controlls are just fancy buttons anyway.