{"id":3518,"date":"2011-05-04T09:09:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T13:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=3518"},"modified":"2011-05-04T09:09:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T13:09:15","slug":"nintendo-wii-price-cut-official-at-149-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/nintendo-wii-price-cut-official-at-149-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Wii Price Cut Official At $149.99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/files.g4tv.com\/ImageDb3\/183100_S\/nintendo-wii.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Wii\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nintendo is dropping the price on the Nintendo Wii to $149.99, as insinuated by price drop rumors floating around Nintendo&#8217;s console the last few weeks. The price drop  will be in effect as of May 15th, and will include a Nintendo Wii in  black or white along with Mario Kart Wii and a matching colored wheel, replacing the Wii Sports\/Wii Sports  Resort pack-ins. For those dying to pick up a black wheel, it can be  purchased separately for $9.99.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the Wii cost reduction, Nintendo also formally announced its  &#8220;Nintendo Selects&#8221; program, which will offer popular Wii titles at the  $19.99 price point. The four titles initially part of the Nintendo  Selects family include The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Animal Crossing:\u00a0City Folk, Mario Super Sluggers and, for the first time ever as a separate software purchase, Wii Sports.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like a great deal for someone that&#8217;s been waiting all these  years to pick up a Wii, with deals galore for classic titles that the  legions of Wii owners have enjoyed for years.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Are you excited to finally pick up a Wii?<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.g4tv.com\/thefeed\/blog\/post\/712360\/nintendo-wii-price-cut-official-at-14999-nintendo-selects-to-follow\/#ixzz1LO9vxmdo\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo is dropping the price on the Nintendo Wii to $149.99, as insinuated by price drop rumors floating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3519,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions\/3519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}