Wii price drop confirmed: $199 starting this weekend

[mushroomboy5]

as an afterthought I think they (nintendo) also need to look at reducing the price of their older games...
Both the 360 and PS3 have a pretty good assortment of their Platinum and Classics line...the shop I went to today had a huge display of ps3 games that are platinum titles in a prominent position in the store...(which consisted of exclusive titles like UNCHARTED, Ratchet an Clank, Little Big Planet, MGS4, KZ2 etc at half the price of most of the good wii games that have also been on the market for a similar timeframe)...if I were a random guy off the street just walking into a shop to buy a console with no preconceived idea of what one i wanted, I know which machine would present itself better at this point in time!
Don't forget, a huge factor in the wii's initial success was the fact that it was the cheapest console on the market by a large magin(parents like that sort of thing after all and don't give a shit about other factors!) and now that margin is much smaller!!!

Don't get me wrong...I'm a big nintendo fanboy...I own a ds and a wii (have bought 6 wii games this year so far ...even the ones that bombed and I don't own wii fit) and like them a lot, but I don't represent the typical consumer...

Nintendo need a price cut...it just makes sense!