According to Engadget’s industry spies (or, more euphemistically, “trusted sources”), Nintendo is planning to cut 25% off the Wii’s recommended retail price point, taking it from $199 down to $150, on the 15th of next month.
It’s not an unlikely contingency, given the console’s recent flagging sales, although one has to wonder if everybody who’s ever going to buy a Wii perhaps already has one by now. Console war correspondent VGChartz has the Wii’s worldwide sales at around 86 million now, which is already most of the planet (Um… – Ed).
The Wii hasn’t had a price cut since September 2009, when it went from $249 to its current pricetag. A cut to $150 would put it $50 under the basic 4 GB Xbox 360 SKU and $100 under the recently launched 3DS.
Obviously, Nintendo has yet to make any official statement on the matter, and when that happens, it’s quite another matter entirely whether we’ll see a similar price over here.
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