That Wii price drop rumor is back again. For the past few months, we’ve been constantly hearing murmurs that Nintendo is going to drop the price of the Wii in May 2011. Now retailers have been backing up that assertion by claiming that Nintendo will be announcing an official $149.99 Wii price drop in the next few weeks. Not only that, but there’s some interesting news in the world of Nintendo Wii games as well.

Kotaku was the first to bring up this new insight, courtesy of its unnamed retail sources…

It’s no secret that people are cutting back. Unemployment, foreclosure and all sorts of other calamities are befalling families across the US, so it’s no surprise that for many people, entertainment is taking a backseat. Midway and EA are just two of the companies facing some serious losses.

Now is the time when companies have to rethink how they market games. Video game developers and publishers have to rely on casual and multiplayer games. While what TIME says holds true, that is that people will rely on forms of entertainment that will provide the best…

In a move that should surprise no one, Nintendo has announced that blockbuster Wii party/fighter Super Smash Bros. Brawl has sold over 1.4 million units in its first week. The game sold an astounding 120 copies per minute between March 9 and March 16, 2008, smashing previous Nintendo of America sales records, according to a more »

Nintendo doesn’t know what it’s doing with multiplayer online gameplay. It’s just that simple.

The Famicom and the Super Famicom, and the Nintendo 64 had online peripherals which were never a wide enough success to release in the US market. Nintendo tried, and it decided nobody cared… and then the online gaming market exploded. Nintendo was too far ahead of its time. Then, the DS and the Wii came along and Nintendo promised wireless internet connectivity right out of the box. But Nintendo has left us sour in the one aspect that it has always claimed deserves the most attention: The games.