Hardware manufacturers offering greatest hit lines of their best sellers at budget prices has become a standard practice over just about every console generation. Nintendo, possibly due to the runaway sales success the Wii enjoyed for years, has not yet done so with its current home console. According to Kotaku, that’s all about to change with the introduction of “Wii Select” in the coming weeks.
Launching at some point later this month, the program will offer $19.99 versions of some of the system’s biggest Nintendo games. The initial batch of budget games will be: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Super Sluggers and Wii Sports. That last one sounds odd, considering it has been a pack-in title with all new units since the Wii launched back in November of 2006. It seems however, that the Sports will be transitioning to a stand-alone budget title with Mario Kart Wii replacing it as the pack-in game.
It was previously leaked that the Wii would be dropping to a $149 price point in May, and Kotaku believes the cut will coincide with Kart’s replacement of Wii Sports. Retailers are currently selling the console at an unofficially slashed price of $169 in advance of the impending official price cut. Nintendo still refuses to confirm or deny any of this, but it appears increasingly likely that the rumors are true.
[Source: Kotaku]
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