Prices slashed! It looks like Nintendo plans to move consoles and games this year, leading into next year when they launch their new console, codenamed Project Cafe. Retail sources tell Kotaku that Nintendo will drop the price of the Wii to $149 this month. This price and timing matches reports from earlier in the year. What's new is that this drop will conincide with a new budget Wii game line called Wii Select.
Wii Select will kick off with $19.99 versions of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princes, Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Mario Sluggers. Wii Sports will also join the line-up, to be sold separately. The same sources say that Mario Kart Wii will now be bundled with the Wii console, and will be sold for $149 starting May 15th.
Someone's blowing all the fun for Nintendo before E3!
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10:20 AM on 05.03.2011 | 
Still don't want a Wii.
I lost all interest after "project revolution" turned out to be wiik as hell. "Project cafe" does nothing to intrigue. Until theres actual tech demos and pictures of what Nintendo is trying to heave at the general masses with a shovel, anyone who's jumping on board like this is Noahs ark coming to return us to the days of goodness before the wii is totally buying into hype.
i wonder if Nintendo will start releasing Fatal Frame Captain Rainbow and other wii games unreleased outside japan now or will they update those games as budget priced Wii2 titles.
And I'll be waiting for the $100 Wii before I buy another.
this will sell alot of wii's until project cafe arrives :P