Wii Cuts Price to $199
Wii Price - How low will it go?
Nintendo announced today they are slashing the price of the Wii to $199. Sales of the Wii this August compared to sales of the Wii in August of last year are down almost 40%. Does this really come as a surprise to people?
The Wii has been out since 2006. How many years is Nintendo going to promote a failing system? Perhaps until they re-think how a gaming system is supposed to function and come out with a new console.
Will this new price drop make hoards of new people buy the Wii? Not likely. As sales of other systems with blue-ray players, HD, and real graphics continue to soar, the Wii will probably end up being great for 12 year olds, 60 year olds in physical therapy, and novelty collectors.
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Nintendo is following microsoft and sony, you ps3/360 fanboys!!!!!! Why criticize something when the console of your choice is doing the same thing?
Omg, dude seriously.
1. Graphics sucks
2. Cant even play dvds
3. Online sucks
4. Too expensive considering how old it is
5. Crap games
6. Dodgy controllers
I rest my case
“Omg, dude seriously.
1. Graphics sucks
2. Cant even play dvds
3. Online sucks
4. Too expensive considering how old it is
5. Crap games
6. Dodgy controllers
I rest my case”
1. Who cares about graphics?
2. It IS backward compatible w/ Gamecube accessories and games
3. It may be where you live where it sucks
4. Why the f*** do you think they lowered the price,then?
5. Some of the games are great! Don’t blame the Wii because cheap,unexperienced 3rd party companies wanna make a quick buck.
6. The controllers work fine. Perfect example: Super Mario Galaxy
I rest my case. 
The Wii is lame. I should have never got on one if I would have known that it was going to be like this. Im getting a PS3 or 360 I don’t care as long as its not the Wii.
Wii has the worse games ever. So much 3rd party crap on the shelves of game stores I can’t find anything good that dosen’t have to do with Mario or any Nintendo character.
Please, please, please tell me this site is just a big joke. Like that’s all irony. Because nobody can seriously mean all this rubbish. I mean, one thing is to not like a system, but THIS? This is way too extreme. If you really mean it, then you are in denial.
“The Wii has been out since 2006. How many years is Nintendo going to promote a failing system? Perhaps until they re-think how a gaming system is supposed to function and come out with a new console”? Whaaaat?
Ah, of course:”The Wii has been out since 2006. It has sold like crazy since the beginning, and outsold the 360, which came out the year before, within a year. Perhaps that’s what made MS and Sony realize that they couldn’t just power up and continue as before, but has to innovate(Read: Sony’s new controller and MS’ Project Natal)”. Fixed.
“As sales of other systems with blue-ray players, HD, and real graphics continue to soar”? Whaaaat?
Ah, of course: “As sales of other systems, namely Xbox 360 and PS3, with blu-ray players, HD and superior graphics continue to lag behind Wii’s sales.” Fixed again.
Courteously~
Darren
PS: If anyone begins to flame me, seriously, get a life. I’m not a fanboy, I own both a Wii and 360, and play roughly the same amount on them. I’m just pointing out that this site is pointless, in denial, ignorant and, in some posts, just plain stupid. If you really spend time on this site just posting lies to further your hate of a console, then you have my pity.
The words “Wii” or “nintendo” are forbidden in my household infact i despize any word related to the wii!
Great site love it 
Whoever posted this doesn’t know shit. If you get injured while playing the Wii, its your own fault for being a dumbass. Rechargable batteries cost $100? Since when? The Wii turns off. Hold button for four seconds, retard. And, by the way, the Wii is ranked number one on Amazon. Why aren’t the other systems up there? Thats right. Eat it, bitches.
Did you know the idiot who made this crappy website closed his YT account? The Wii will always rule and PS3 and 360sucks. So do all Wii haters.
That’s right. The Wii will always be the console that does EVERYTHING it’s supposed to do. The 360 has the red ring of death, no built in Wi-Fi support, and crappy Xbox back-compatibility. The PS3 has no PS2 compatibility at all (i.e. people don’t want to buy a PS2 and pay another $100 for something that should already be on the PS3). Those 2 consoles have major fails. The Wii has seamless Gamecube compatibility, compatibility with Virtual Console games, and a hackability that puts the 360 and PS3 to shame. And, graphics don’t matter. Many hi-budget, special effects films flop, but indie films can be successful. Same with the consoles. The Wii is greener, too. It uses the least power of all 3 consoles. And for those that say there aren’t any good games (I admit the Wii attracts a lot of crap though), take a look at IGN’s top 25 Wii games list. Chances are, you’ll find at least one that you’ll like.
http://wii.ign.com/articles/104/1048874p1.html
I occasionaly turn on my Wii, but find myself with suicidal thoughts shortly after therefore i have burned my wii!
Anyone one willing who wants my Wiimotes can find them in the scrapyard although they have probably been destroyed too!
I hate the Wii very much myself, but even I didn’t think of
BURNING my Wii! I just sold it! But, hey. What do you
expect? The Wii isn’t any better than my grandmother’s
cooking. If you ask me, NOTtheWii did the right thing.
Screw the boundaries.
I got Wii for my boyfriend because he love nintendo games. I came from a PSP background and I did enjoy how you can be more active and the games were pretty good and cute. But Now I am annoyed because all the games are cute and they just bring back old games and make it slightly glossy. There is no games for me I want to play anymore except for Wario Ware that sold the console for me, everything else went down hill. So we are going to buy a PS3 when we have the money for it and sell that Wii off until they get better games in Nintendo or at least sell yourself to Sony so they can make better Mario games “Call of Mario” or something.
to the people who think the wii is better than a ps3 or 360, your oppinion doesn’t matter your just mad because your too cheep to buy a real gaming system. The only thing the wii is good for is improving the self esteem of 60 year old women on wii fit,and old nintendo games like punch out and super Mario 3
the wii is so much worse than xbox, ps3, or PC and why in the world would nintendo keep selling this tripe. i mean cmon, wii has their little bubbly characters fit for a three year old. and OH LORD look at those graphics – simply makes me want to throw up ON my throw up. and no dvd drive, good god what has nintedo come to today. oh and im no fanboy, i think the wii just sucks – all other game systems are alright, but the wii? lord… case closed.
No matter how Nintendo tries to help their precious Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis. It will always be shit.