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Nintendo drops price of Wii to $129

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nintendo has cut the price of its six-year-old Wii video game console in advance of the launch of its next-generation Wii U.

The Japanese company cut the price of the Wii from $149.99 to $129.99 in the U.S. just in time for the shopping season. The new Wii bundle will be in stores by Oct. 28. It includes a black Wii console, Wii Sports, and Wii Sports Resort on a single disk, a Wii Remote Plus and a Nunchuk controller.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.