Fresh off of the Nintendo’s PR site effective this Sunday the Wii is getting the old price drop to 199 dollars. This comes as a surprise to absolutely nobody as leaks ranging from in-store memos to newspaper ads were already running with the news.

So yeah that’s, really all there is for this news story. Wii’s fifty dollars cheaper, the NPD’s getting another Mario entry in it’s Top Ten on November 15th the PR also states.

Oh, and while it’s not related to the story in the least, today is the 120th birthday of Nintendo. Nice to see the whole video game venture worked out for them, after successful ventures like card games and toys could only bring them so far into the modern commerce mindset while other ventures like Taxi Businesses and…Love Hotels…weren’t as successful for them in the long run.

Of course the Wii now, for better and worse defines the company now a days, and it’s a wee bit cheaper as well, just in time for that all important Holiday Shopping Season. – The Ben