It is actually more a marketing move than a price reduction. Nissan had been routinely giving incentives/rebates roughly equal to the msrp decrease. They are now simply moving it to be more visible.
I would have bought mine (with new battery) after the 5 year lease was up but Nissan wanted a ludicrous sum to buy it ($12.5K). It sat on a dealer's lot for nearly a year after I turned it in and finally sold for $5K. Typical Nissan incompetence.
Yep, it only took them a decade to decide that everyone else was right about needing a battery TMS... Anything Nissan would be a very hard sell for me these days...