Nintendo not considering Wii U price drop even after glacial quarterly sales

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata doesn’t want to cut the price of the Wii U. The executive thinks that consumers are willing to spend the money, but they just haven’t yet because the Wii U doesn’t have enough games.

“If the price is actually an issue [for Wii U sales], then there is some contradiction between the current sales balance between the Basic and Premium versions of the Wii U,” Iwata said in an interview with website CVG. “The Basic version should have sold a lot, but the fact of the matter is that people are buying more of the Premium version. So the issue [of price] is not there.”