"Eat that all you guys.  We dropped it to $169.99 instead yo..."
Wait..
$169.99 thats like a clearancing drop when it needs to go but not because of age.

$169.99? Far too little. They've got to get it under $150 AT LEAST. And this talk of "the cost doesn't matter. Whoever wants one already has one" is complete horse shit.

Any word on a price drop in Europe?

You can get a Wii for £99.98 from Game.co.uk at the mo.

Well, the $150 price drop is supposed to coincide with the bundling of Mario Kart Wii...

This bodes well for an end of the year Wii2 release.

This might just be an interim price drop to give retailers time to clear out all the $199 Wiis without them having to be sold at a loss. After they're all gone, the price may drop again to $149.99.

If retailers are jumping the gun on a price cut then the system must not be selling very well. I can't say I'm surprised that Wal*Mart hasn't dropped the price yet; in my experience (which admittedly is rooted many years ago), they are always the last to comply with price cuts.

I haven't checked a Wii bundle in the store lately. That includes motion plus and Wii Sports Resort, right?

Correct. And it's a Wiimote Plus where the Motion Plus is built into the Wiimote and not an accessory. The only downside to that is that it drains batteries a little faster.

That's because they price match, so if you didn't know it was lower somewhere else, then they would still get their advertised price out of you.

Yeah, you just have to bring the ad from a competitor in and they'll match it.

That's pretty low.

I'm thinking that this may have been planned for the future, but was perhaps done now due to the Wii 2 stuff that's been floating about.