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Wii cut to 199 USD spied in US (Ferrago)

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Retail led, not official – Nintendo An advertisement said to come from US retail giant Target appears to show that despite Nintendo’s denials the Wii will soon fall in price. The commercial for the week beginning September 27th sees the Wii being sold for 199 USD – the same point as previously speculated – a drop of 50 USD over the current price

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Wii cut to 199 USD spied in US (Ferrago)

Nintendo look to push Wii users online (Ferrago.co.uk)

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

New program hopes to get users connected The Nintendo Wii may be the best selling console of the current generation, but the system has already come under-fire for being the least played of the big three, critics hitting out over a lack of good games and a focus on casual filler releases. Nintendo aren’t taking these criticisms lying down however, and in a bid to get Wii users more serious they …

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To Wii or Not to Wii (PC World via Yahoo! News)

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Pity that busy monster, gamers-unkind…to Nintendo’s extraordinarily successful pint-sized hexahedral Gamecube-with-motion-control. Who knew the Wii would become the sales darling of the current generation? The Nintendo ditto-heads, sure, but they thought the Virtual Boy would usher in head-mounted gaming long before the Wachowskis were jamming knitting needles upside the backs of pasty-faced …

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To Wii or Not to Wii (PC World via Yahoo! News)