Wii Price Drop: $199.99, September 27

And my procrastination on deciding whether or not to sell my Wii has cost me $50. Thus, I'm totally deciding not to.

Maybe I should buy another Wii just to sell it so I can fit in.

I dunno, I'm thinking about getting a Wii after this.  I mean, it has the ever important VC plus games like Metroid Prime Trilogy, Mario, No More Heroes.  I would drop 200 bones for one I think, even with my measly grad school budget :(

" $200 is about $180 more than I am willing to pay for a Wii.  GameStop should just charge by the minute for people to use their demo units. They could charge a dollar a minute and I would have had all the Wii play I want in a year for about $10. "

I already have a Wii, and I'm glad I have one because it's very good at its job: collecting dust.

Europe get NSMBW on November 27th.

" @LaszloKovacs:   
 

" $200 is about $180 more than I am willing to pay for a Wii.  GameStop should just charge by the minute for people to use their demo units. They could charge a dollar a minute and I would have had all the Wii play I want in a year for about $10. "

 Yeah because Mario Galaxy, Prime 3, SSMB, Zelda: TP, Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, etc can all be beaten in 10 minutes.  You're being a little unfair I'd say. "

The AI is not dumbed down, nor is the AI in the Trilogy release (with the same controls as Prime 3) dumbed down which would mean any changes weren't due to the controls as they would be retained to the ports. There's nothing imprecise about such games. It seems your hate for it is merely based on personal incompetence (if we believe your experiences are true, how can just about anyone get used to it, and use it well, but not you?) and false assumptions you spew out as facts. You should seek help if you really do have such strong feelings over games, and in fact games you do not have to, and apparently don't, experience.

The fact you condemn them for waggle when the majority of their gameplay relies on the pointer controls, which are a completely different aspect of the remote, and one that lacks nothing, has next to no issues and would not be improved with better motion sensing, tells me you haven't actually played these games. Now, they definitely include some motion actions, but they're no different to parts of conventional controller games that require button mashing. They aren't the focus, they aren't intended to be precise, they work very well. In fact, most of them aren't even done during frantic gameplay, as motion controls were restricted to pulling switches and other such actions, aside from the grapple beam which could (and had to) be used on some enemies.

Cool, I guess.  
 
I'm not a hater or anything, the Wii has a lot of potential, but Nintendo needs to start releasing some worth while games. I can count the number of games I want to play on one hand and still have some fingers left over. 

There's nothing imprecise about such games.

You should seek help if you really do have such strong feelings over games

has next to no issues and would not be improved with better motion sensing

Yes, next to no issues means it has that one issue of the range of the sensor bar. Still, it's quite a wide range, I honestly fail to see how most people need more, not once did I go out of range in any game that uses the pointer functions. It works well. I can see why people would prefer your description, but even so, you'd still have a specific range that would end up either constantly turning or stopping the turn depending on the options. After all, you aren't going to turn your wrist all around to do quick turns. It would just be somewhat wider, and for most people (if with options) I imagine not THAT much wider.

The natural motion of the wrist is still within a particular angle that I feel the sensor bar covers well enough, requiring more would border on unconvenient waggle style motions that would not offer precision. This could be "fixed" with a high degree of sensitivity, but then that would make the fact you say you can't keep your wrist steady even worse, and make it a problem for people who had it steady enough previously (try resting it on your lap...). Red Steel 2 uses M+ for out-of-range sensing, we'll see how it works there, but I don't think it's going to be as good as you imagine it would be with that style of controls.

You know its bad when the PSP has a better lineup of games this holiday season than the Wii.

$200 is not a bad deal.

They should have gone the extra mile and drop the price to 179.99. 50 bucks just isn't enough to make a serious impact on sales. Better then nothing though. Now there is finally no console selling for the launch price. However it is still the only console that hasn't been updated in any way. Still uses 90nm technology while 360 and PS3 have moved on to 65nm and 45nm. I guess it doesn't make much difference though. It's pretty small and light as it is.

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, and if anyone has sorry for a repeat.
But in the UK, there isn't really any  price drop. Nintendo up'ed the price due to the Pound earlier this year, and now with this worldwide price drop, the cost of the Wii is now it's original price.
Although, there is meant to be a bundle with Wii Sports Resort and motion plus.

" @jakob187 said:

" And of COURSE this would pull the trolls out of their caves.  HOWEVER, I almost have to agree.  Now that the PS3 is sitting at $299.99, it almost looks weird to see the Wii for $199.99. "

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All this Wii bashing. tisk, tisk, tisk. Meh, I like my Wii so that is all I'm going to say.

Everyone saw this coming.  After the price drops of the PS3 and Xbox 360, Nintendo had to lower the Wii's price to stay competitive.

well well, are'nt we late for the $199 party, eh nintendo?

" You know its bad when the PSP has a better lineup of games this holiday season than the Wii. "

" @Floppypants said:

" You know its bad when the PSP has a better lineup of games this holiday season than the Wii. "

Haha, great point "

" @Tallica9000 said:
Hardly. The WIi holiday lineup includes titles like this, this, this, this, and this. That doesn't even include sports games that provide a great new experience like Pro Evo Soccer 10 since I don't play such games much myself, and doesn't include WiiWare which has its own great stuff. How many titles does one need for the "holidays" and does that one have all the great recent Wii titles like Anno, Muramasa, and Little King's Story?Not that this has anything to do with the topic... "

Yes, the tone of "you know it's bad when..." (you who? me? and what is bad? that you personally don't want Wii games is bad is what you now claim you meant? like anyone should care) certainly merely indicated a personal preference without attempts to tie it to some sort of objective issue with the Wii. Play what you want to play too, just don't project your opinion as some kind of industry wide problem. If you do, expect a comment. If you haven't found one game on Wii that is interesting this year I do wonder exactly what kind of games you play though, since it's covered almost any genre with quality titles from respected developers, aside from FPS and JRPG, the latter of which is covered in the holidays.

The Wii has easily been the best console this generation, regardless of what all the haters say. And it has the best lineup this holiday, too. The haters can keep hating, and the rest of us can just keep enjoying all of the great games that come out on the Wii.

"You should seek help if you really do have such strong feelings over games "

Um? I didn't launch a personal attack, or say your opinion is wrong. I merely corrected your blatantly false statements (the stuff about dumbed down this or that, assumptions about the reasons behind this imaginary dumbing down, claims of imprecision, etc). Of course, this type of rebuttal was expected since you have nothing to argue against what I actually said, so instead resort to claiming random shit a page later.

"Of course, this type of rebuttal was expected since you have nothing to argue against what I actually said"

"claiming random shit a page later. "

Great! Now only $150 overpriced!

" Haha, calling these people trolls is far too dignified. A good troll knows how to stir up message board chaos to the chagrin of all involved.  No, these yahoos truly believe what comes out of their miserable keyboards. And it is only to the detriment of reasonable representatives of their consoles (PS3 and 360 fans who do not want to associate with idiots). They took the opportunity of the Xbox and PS3 price drops to suddenly harp on the Wii's price, as if it is somehow ridiculous that anyone would pay 250 dollars for a videogame console that just so happens to not be their own. But no, the PS3 at 400+ dollars for two and a half years is just fine!  What makes these tears so delicious for Nintendo fans such as myself is the true fact of the matter: Nintendo was able to strap two Gamecube's together, add motion controls (that are mostly underutilized), entirely rebrand the Nintendo franchise, and was able to completely undermine the Microsoft and Sony business model.  And guess what folks, it aint coming back. E3 2009 is proof enough of that. "

Good deal. It's going to sell an astronomically large amount this holiday.  When will the haters grow up?

I have a black PS3, a black PS2, a black 360, and a black TV, all on a black entertainment center.  The Wii is just interesting enough to me that I'd pay $200 for a black one.  A white one though?  Forget about it.

" But will a price cut fix the suck?  No, no it will not. "