i still think its a waste of money or to put it better a poor value and this is coming from an ex Nintendo fanboy

I always like a price cut. Though it usually means a new version of the system is around the corner.

I am also an ex nintendo fanboy.
I really don't think the Wii is that great.
It is a lot of fun for some games but nintendo tends to have too many childish and novelty games and the Wii isn't capable of HD resolutions.
Despite those facts I still have one and own several games for it... but I find it's collecting dust. While my PS3 is being used all the time.

i think some of you forget the true demographic nintendo aims for... and it's not yourselves...

I want the black Wii.

I always felt that $249.99 was too much for this. When I found out it was still that price I was like what... I think I read somewhere that it costs nintendo like $70 to manufacture this console or something. Anyway $199 for this or you can get an xbox 360 somewhere on sale for $157..seems like a no brainer to me. xbox 360 is a better console overall.

Even though I neither need or want it, price cut is always a good thing.

Nevertheless, I hope the price for food, fuel, cellphone fee, insurance and apartment rent can be lowered, too.

I too think that Barbie's Playtime Funhouse is juvenile and a little girly. I just don't know what Mattel was thinking, releasing such a toy in the face of the XBox 360 and the PS3. Without HD output (or any video output for that matter), a lack of internal harddrive (or any data storage for that matter), and no Wifi Draft-N (or any network connectivity whatsoever), it just simply can't compete. Ignoring the fact that billions of dollars worth of Barbie dolls merchandise sell every year, clearly Mattel has no idea what they are doing.*

*In case you missed it, that was sarcasm aimed at every "Nintendo Sucks" douche-bag who keeps posting about what a failure the console is. 25+ years of experience, the #1 console (50+ million Wiis sold), and the #1 handheld (over 100+ million DSs sold), are success under any terms. Whether or not the Wii directly competes with the 360 and PS3 is meaningless.

What's next, the Toyota Camry is a failure because it doesn't have the horsepower of a Corvette or the fancy keyless electronics of a Lexus?

sweet.... I'm going to hold off on buying one for a little longer !

i've been getting the itch to buy one in the past few weeks and people have them for $150-175 on craigslist...

Nintendo wasted the potential of the Wii. 3-years later and the Wii is still waiting to have a killer-app. Overpriced weak hardware, lack of real gamer games and a controller that never got fully realized. The system gets almost no play at my house other than my 7 year daughter and she still rather play (Burnout-Paradise) and (Prince of Persia) on my P.C. with... the XBOX-360 controller. LOL.

The Wii has its place...and that place is not in my entertainment center.

All of you who defend the wii... well... would you like it if all the consoles had the same tech specs as the wii? cause I can imagine Sony and Microsoft are feeling pretty ripped off that all of you are willing to pay nearly as much for shithouse 10 year old hardware than what you'll pay for the much more expensive hardware they put in their consoles.

yeah i'm ashamed to say it but i bought one off of my friend for 120. yeah thats seems pretty low but it was pretty scratched and why you say i bought one? for the only games that matter on it zelda and no more heroes one of the few true games ive seen in a while for this console.

If your Wii is hacked or Chipped its a lot more fun (makes a great emulation machine for sitting on the couch and firing up an old NES or SNES game with the classic controller) Homebrew channel FTW !

I like my PS3 and my Wii the 360 scares me, well except those new ones that supposedly are RROD proof so I might pick one of those up...

Last thought on this news, its about time!

$249 is too much. $200 is a lot. Make it $129 otherwise no sale for me.

I am 16, and have a wii. I always loved nintendo with their games, but as I got older, I felt they were too childish for me. The only wii game I thoroughly enjoy is Call of Duty WAW. I think the wii is good when you're a kid, or have kids, otherwise it isn't worth with all of the downgraded parts comprared to 360 or PS3. I hope to get a 360 on Christmas

When I buy consoles it has had little to do with the quality of graphics. I like Nintendo because they make great, unique games that are not available for any other system: Zelda, Mario, etc.

If I want awesome graphics, I game on a PC.

I will never understand why people pay top dollar for a console whose graphics will be obsolete in six months; yet cite the consoles awesome graphics capability for their reason for buying it in the first place.

The PS3 is just starting to be great now that it is available for around $250 if you shop around, which is competitive just as a blu-ray player.

The Xbox 360 is just a total flop: High failure rate, no unique and worthwhile games, graphics are terrible compared to what's available on a PC.

Finally! I just might get me one of these now, i've been waiting for 3 years, playing on other people's Wii's, no moar leeching.

I don't want a Wii price cut because I've been planning on selling mine for the longest time. If I hurry I could sell it before the cut, but I guess I'm just lazy that way.

Also I think $140 or so would be a more reasonable price for the Wii considering the PS2 is profitable at $100.

Even at $200, it's an overpriced peice of shit.

Apparently, everyone else in the world thinks differently since day 1 when the Wii came out. So now explain why the Wii is still the #1 selling console???

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^Well I call ignorance.What do you say r3t4rd? Is there another reson for this?

anamaniac : I swore i'd never get a wii... but it seems that they seem to be easily modded to play downloaded games, emulators, etc.

I started my wii quest because of Final Fantasy 4 : The after years... the sequal to my all time favorite game! luckily i'm able to play it via dolphin on my pc but i'd rather be playing on my tv set w\ a wii.

The simple fact is, that it should not even count as a console. Not when what you say is that it isn't trying to go against the PS3 or 360. It simply isn't the same kind of thing. You don't compare motorcycles to cars and claim one as best. It's a toy for non-gamers. Even when gamers have them its with a 360, PS3 or both. That isn't competing.

Even the DS, when it first came out it was great. Best kind of portable gaming there could be: all sorts of new stuff like touch screen and whatnot. Now we're on like the third kind of DS, and all it did was lose GBA functionality and added a crappy phone that we all already have in our cell phones. Even the PSP is kinda old now, and I expect better games out of the ZuneHD and even the new iTouch. And those were supposed to be just MP3 players!

Overpriced or not, people buy it (not me, I want it cheap or i'll stick to my PC). If people buy it, it means the market considers it a reasonable price. From the business side of it, it's only logical not to lower the price to please competition fanboys, it's not their target anyway.

What makes me laugh is those people that diss the Wii in favour of a PS3 or XBox claiming they want 'quality'... well if you are "willing to pay top dollar for top quality" you should buy a pc, wich also you can upgrade periodically. Oh, wait. you're not that bright :-s

when the president of nintendo, satoru iwata, says there won't be a price drop, it usually means there won't be a price drop. this price drop isn't an official nintendo announcement but rather a drop of price that the store is undergoing themselves.

'Tis a wee, err Wii, price cut indeed, laddie XD Actually, $50 less isn't that bad. However, you've still spent over $600 once you've bought all the controllers and a handful of games. A price cut on the accessories would be nice.

To all of you who bash the Wii for being too 'kiddie' and underpowered: Quite frankly I like those so-called 'kiddie' games. The whole reason I bought a Wii was to play Zelda, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Mario Party, Mario Galaxy, etc. Those types of games are fun. I even still play the old NES/SNES/N64 Nintendo-brand games. When you get down to it, Nintendo knows how to make good games.

When I'm in the mood for violence, gore, and other more mature material, I switch to my PC. That's the way it's always been for me.

As for the Wii's specs - yeah, it would be nice to have at least 720p and 5.1 digital audio, but short of watching DVDs, it wouldn't serve much purpose. The games that I use the Wii for would hardly benefit from such enhancements. Also, as someone else mentioned, it's great for homebrew. I'll take a well-made game over pretty graphics any day.

Last I checked, the Wii is used only for playing video games. By definition it is for gamers. Non-gamers (people who do not play games) would never use the Wii! If anything, Xbox 360 and PS3 can be considered toys for non-gamers, since they do other things besides video games such as play DVDs and/or Blu-Ray discs.

So is the Atari not for gamers? Or the Super Nintendo? Or N64? Or PS2? Or Xbox? So just because their graphics aren't as good as the PS3 or Xbox 360 that means they aren't game consoles, and therefore can't be used by gamers?

The vast majority of those who have been bashing the Wii have forgotten the whole point of gaming: to relax and have some fun. Not in HD? Who cares!? I think it is sad when we define our level of fun based around how many fps we get or how high our resolution is. Microsoft and Sony completely forgot about that, and that is why the Wii is vastly out selling both consoles.

And this is EXACTLY why Crysis didn't sell that well either!

The Wii is getting a price cut? Hmm, hell must be freezing over.

I would have to concur. I get a lot of dirty disc errors with my wii lately and I barely ever have even played it. To me, out of any console I have ever owned, Wii is by far the worst and that is going below my first xbox360 which did the RROD. Nintendo needs to step up the game and stop shoveling low-end garbage at the public. All Nintendo does is makes billions of dollars and doesn't really innovate on technology. And what argument against that, the motion sensors? There's plenty of devices out there that have motion sensors including the dualshock 3.