Nintendo will lower the price of its Wii game system in the U.S. and Japan, the company said Thursday on the eve of the Tokyo Game Show.
On September 27, the price of Wii will drop by $50 to $200 in the U.S., Nintendo of America said. A separate announcement by Nintendo’s Japanese parent company said that the price of Wii would drop in Japan to 20,000 yen (about $210) on October 1.
Nintendo also said that New Super Mario Bros. Wii will be available in the U.S. on November 15.
The timing of Nintendo’s announcement was suspicious, to say the least: The news went out in the middle of Sony chairman Kaz Hirai’s keynote speech at Tokyo Game Show.
