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charlequin
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(09-12-2009, 05:53 AM)
 
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Originally Posted by Spirit Icana:
What is so confusing for you? If Nintendo drops the price, that means the company has submitted that their console is no longer worth $250. They'd have given up the fight to keep the system of consistent value and begin to adjust the platform to its current value as percieved by the consumers

You're right that they'd be "giving up on" that, because "that" was a dumb idea that never had anything beyond a tenuous relationship to reality. Consoles drop in price over time; Nintendo wasn't going to be able to avoid that reality just by wishing really hard.

Originally Posted by Spirit Icana:
They are submitting to defeat.

Waiting longer than any previous system ever to make their first price drop is not "submitting to defeat."

Originally Posted by Spirit Icana:
Again, it's counter to the Blue Ocean Strategy, a strategy Nintendo has stated they were following.

Not dropping the price has nothing the fuck whatsoever to do with the Blue Ocean strategy.