It's not that I trust Nintendo. It's that I don't trust Kotaku, and the only "bad" thing about all of this is that people still choose to trust such an unethical band of biased fratboys. Their journalistic integrity is worse than zero, and this should have been dismissed for the hoax that it is long ago. Give me a source that can't be traced back to them -and even the latest leaks are, conveniently, theirs and theirs alone- and then I'll be impressed. Until then, either they cooked this up out of whole cloth or they've fallen for some anonymous hoaxster due to their own fratcore wishful thinking.

GH5, Rockband Beatles...

Like many have already said we will find out soon enough. But I think I'm leaning more towards believing the price cut is true. With supposed leaks from three circulars, plus an event Nintendo will be at the day before the price cut is supposed to take effect, it seems logical. Plus I agree with what others have been saying in this thread, about not being sure how big a boost Nintendo's software will give the Wii. Wii Sports Resort hasn't done that much yet despite being a huge success. And this week with Rock Band opening to greater than 200k sales in America, Wii only managed a 3% weekly boost. Even if the game is multiplatform, the Wii only has a few games set to release that will open with greater than 200k in one region.

New ad from Best Buy $199 Wii. http://kotaku.com/5362694/this-is-getting-wii+diculous

lol...Game party is free! Who wants to go camp out at best buy?

That's a big lie. The Wii has been going down in sales weekly since the game launched.

Wii is now selling less units than before they released WSR.

Iwata said this at the Financial Q & A in August:

"In September, which people overseas call "back-to-school," people start to pay more attention to home consoles. If we can convey the appeal of Wii Sports Resort to existing customers then, it will surely contribute to the sales of hardware and generate good momentum toward the holiday season. So we feel that Wii Sports Resort will drive hardware sales mainly in Q3 from October to December."

HW sales have been going down since WSR launched, but at launch there was a large hardware boost due to this being released (plus MH3 and Black Wii in Japan). So it's really only down about 9k since July and actually up 5k since May.

And as the quote says, Iwata didn't really expect hardware sales to be driven upward until the third quarter. So if in December Wii is still down 50%, then you can come back here and make me eat crow.

there's never a price cut on the horizon until it happens

All but confirmed now. This'll really boost Wii's sales into orbit and put it back in first.

Malstrom will be pissed, but Nintendo is going to have a monster holiday.