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Nintendo reports it will not drop the price of it's Wii console
As if this was a completely unsuspecting turn of events, Nintendo announced that they will not be dropping the price of the Wii. It forces those of us who spent the money on a PlayStation 3 and/or Xbox 360 to chuckle just a bit, not because Nintendo has suddenly decided to tighten up, but because the Wii is already overly inexpensive.
Knowing full well how the Wii was the only console to actually make money for Nintendo from the start and that it was the cheapest console on the market since release, and is only competing (if that's what it can be called) against the 360's "Xbox Live Arcade" version, which is just $30 more, they obviously see no need for a price drop.
Why should they? The only expensive part in the whole console isn't even the console, it's the Wii remotes. If a price drop should come to anything, it should be to those expensive controllers that people are buying Wii Play for exclusively.
Apr 27, 2008News by James Pikover.
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