Wii drops down to $149.99, ‘Nintendo Select’ brand revealed
Nintendo announced that they are dropping the MSRP of their upcoming Mario Kart-bundled Wii system to $149.99 on May 15th, as many gamers have expected after the announcement of their next console tentatively titled “Project Café.” Seen as a move to counter Sony’s PlayStation 3 Move bundle along with Microsoft’s Kinect, it appears that Nintendo has been making moves in order to regain loss ground over their competitors with this announcement along with their new ‘Nintendo Select’ brand.
Also on May 15th, Nintendo will be launching their brand-new ‘Nintendo Selects’ collection of Wii games. $19.99 games that have sold well and are popular, similar to Microsoft’s and Sony’s Greatest Hits lines. The first four announced games for this collection are the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Animal Crossing: City Folk, Mario Super Sluggers and Wii Sports.
As stated on their official press release, “From the day it launched, Wii has let players of all ages and experience levels have fun with one another,” said Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Ame. “The new suggested retail pricing for both the hardware and select games will help create more of these magical moments for even greater numbers of people.”
About Nintendo: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii™ home console, Nintendo 3DS™ and Nintendo DS™ family of portable systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold more than 3.5 billion video games and more than 577 million hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi™ and Nintendo DSi XL™, as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance, Super NES™, Nintendo 64™ and Nintendo GameCube™ systems. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names such as Mario™, Donkey Kong™, Metroid™, Zelda™ and Pokémon™. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, please visit the company’s website at http://www.nintendo.com.
source: Nintendo PR
