Nintendo lowers Wii price to $199 in US and EU on September 27, 2009
A Wii price cut is now official in America, Europe and Japan announced Nintendo. The new price for the system is a budget-friendly $199/€199, down from the previous price point of $249. This new price will be effective on September 27, 2009.
The system configuration will be the same as before. Buyers will get the Wii Hardware, a copy of Wii Sports, and one Wii Remote & Nunchuck controller set.
As far as the UK and the rest of Europe is concerned, their price drop will be effective as of October 2nd, 2009. The UK and Republic of Ireland will also be getting a new configuration of Wii Hardware that includes the Wii System along with Wii Sports Resort, a Wii Remote & Nunchuck and a Wii MotionPlus accessory.
The final exciting announcement is regarding New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which has been dated for November 15th in North America. That follows Wii Fit Plus which hits on October 4th.
24 September 2009 09:28mcjakeqcool
About time! However, I remember back in ‘08, the Wii was that exzact same price, so they’ve effectively taken the price up and cut it again, obviously Nintendo thought people were stupid, the same reason they launched the Wii with the same hardware as the Gamecube, did not include a DVD drive and disabled the abilty to play audio cds. Well thankfully not everyone is stupid, overwise Nintendo’s Wii would get away with being the first console since the SNES to not play any kind of media (the TG16 CD & Sega CD could play audio cds) without getting one bad word from the video gameing community. Well guess what Nintendo, that aint gonna happen!
Sometimes it gets too boring playing Mario and Luigi and to have 4 players at the same time is really exciting. Now, aside from Aion Online, I have something else to look forward to.
