In> an effort to revive sales, Nintendo said it will cut the price of the Wii video game console to $ 149.99 on May 15 and also reduce prices for some games to $ 19.99.
Discounts, rumored for more than a month, with the aim of reactivating the Wii drops sales and make these systems affordable to the mass consumer market a new and broader much more sensitive to price players hardcore. It is a further sign that the Wii, which is almost five years, is entering a new stage of maturity. Nintendo has announced it will launch a new console next year.
Wii Price Drop Wii will include black and white, motion sensor Wii Remote, and a copy of Mario Kart steering wheel with black or white. Previously, the Wii costs $ 199.99 and is included with Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort. Nintendo will continue to sell packages to run out the summer. Some retailers are selling the package for $ 170.
While Nintendo has announced a replacement for the console and are explained in the show this year, the E3 trade in June, would be a mistake to assume the Wii will be reduced. In fact, the previous generation console, the largest amount of consoles sold, when the price falls below $ 100. Since 2006, the Wii has sold over 86 million consoles. In the last year, Nintendo said it sold 15 million units, compared to 20 million in the previous year. Nintendo expects to sell 13 million Wii in the current fiscal year ending March 31, 2012.
The timing of the price reduction is good at one thing because Sony has suffered a setback due to the disaster with the PlayStation Network, which is hacked. Sony said the hackers had access to personal data of more than 77 million registered users and hackers may have stolen credit numbers over 10 million cards.
Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America president, said the U.S. Today’s new console will not be sold until the second half of 2012 at the earliest. Nintendo said it would sell four games for $ 19.99: Wii Sports, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Animal Crossing: City Folk, and Mario Super Sluggers. Wii Sports Resort will sell for $ 39.99, without the Wii remote. Nintendo’s new games are still selling for $ 49.99.
