Well, you're half right...

I was hoping for some Wii games from Nintendo, since they are the company I buy most of my games from. Home consoles though. That's Why I want a new console, Wii is on the verge of dying. Nothing wrong with that. And I won't claim I was right since I'm not predicting doom. You are stuck in 2008 man, time to move on.

Mid-May makes sense, allows half the quarter at the current price, half the quarter at the new price. Sony / Microsoft probably won't cut price by then either.

But with no software, there is no driving force for continued sales past a month at most...

And the next round of price cuts begins.

I expect Sony and Microsoft to follow with price cuts in the Fall.  The question is who will go first and how big will each drop be.  I'm guessing $50 a piece, with Microsoft leading by a few weeks.

If Nintendo brings the right software in the latter half of the year, I could see them coming out on top overall yet again, thanks to that and the early price cut.

The Wii doesn't really sell on new software in the USA anymore with a hand full of exceptions, given how big and diversified the base is. The library is broad enough that a price cut, particularly with Mario Kart included, will drive some hardware. I was expecting a cut in April or September, but May 15 is exactly half way through the first quarter of Nintendo's March 2012 fiscal year so it does make sense. In Japan its concievable that a price cut could come even earlier given the slowdown there, possibly as early as Nintendo's earnings briefing on April 25.

Its also been a hell of a long time since a viable / still fairly healthy console could be bought for less than $200 new. PS2 hasn't really been significant in steady game releases since 2006-2007 in the USA, so on the console side, Wii at $150 would be pretty significant for the budget-console gamer.

As far as game releases go, the Wii Play sequel will probably help drive some hardware sales just as Wii Fit Plus helped around the 2009 price cut.

Wii is also way overdue for a player's choice line at some point, given that close to 120 titles will have topped 1 million units worldwide by the time the price cut comes.

In the grand scheme of things, its important to remember that old business figures put NES at 80,000 units in the USA even as late as December 1994 (about what PS2 did in Dec 2010) - and so Wii is probably capable of 1m units even into 2015 or 2016 in the USA given that there are still price cuts to $130, $100, $80, and $50 if Nintendo chooses to really ride out long term. I'm not suggesting Wii core games will continue selling throughout this period, I think 2011-2012 is the end of Wii for that, but the leggy, casual titles will continue to arrive for a couple more years yet given the size of the software market.

I always thought testres hates Nintendo's guts and has never praised them and never will.

Already? I just got mine for €250 3 years ago.

I feel ripped off.

I know that the sheet says 'clearance' price, but we're guessing that this is related to the rumored price cut as well. Either that, or some sort of new bundle is on the way. Thanks to DrGAKMAN for the heads up!

Guess this could confirm it. And lol at Zune down from 250 to 10 bucks lololol

wow try and scroll up and down fats on that list, it's as if you are really looking down at the list in real life, and I bet this will lift wii sales a tad, should be effective at the holidays.