Nintendo Wii Price Drop Confirmed, Wii Now $149 May 19, 2011

This is a bit bleated news, especially given the fact that many were speculating about this for the past few weeks, and a few retailers probably started jumping the gun in anticipation for this happening, but Nintendo has confirmed that the Nintendo Wii’s official MSRP is now $149US, and has lowered the price of many of it’s first party games to $19.99 US including Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Super Mario Sluggers, Animal Crossing City Folk and Wii Sports.

The Nintendo Wii is now being bundled with copies of Mario Kart Wii, come in the color black, and include a Wii Racing Wheel.

I have to admit, this is pretty great news. Obviously this price drop is in anticipation for the formal reveal of Project Cafe (the Wii’s successor) at E3 this year, but more than that the Wii has a fantastic library of first party titles as well as some great third party titles that have cult status. Maybe I should do a list of my personal favorite Wii games for people interested in it.