Nintendo Wii Price Drop - Get It While You Can

As expected on Oct 1st just in time for the Christmas season Nintendo dropped the price of the Nintendo Wii $50 to $199.99. But will you be able to buy a Wii near Christmas? If you're in for one you should get a Wii now. In the post we suggest three products you should consider buying at the same time to fully enjoy your Wii on the festive morning. 

Every year since it's 2006 launch Nintendo has unable on purpose to supply stock of it's popular Wii console leaving punters to hunt down over priced bundles, bid high on eBay and otherwise beg, steal or borrow a Wii for the all important Christmas Day. Demand for Wii and it's family friendly and casual games means Nintendo has enjoyed market expansion into retail spaces the Xbox and PS3 simply can't get into becuase Nintendo's own content is primarily aimed at casual and gestural based gaming thats also fun and family friendly. Something the hardcore gaming consoles don't enjoy.

How can you optimize buying your Wii? Read on...

Lets say you want to buy a Wii and get it before Christmas... there's a few things to consider:

• The Wii comes with one Wii Remote and Nunchuk (good for one player only)
• Wii Sports comes in the box - a collection of sports games of which we think Tennis, Golf and Bowling are the best
• A composite cable to TV connection

At a minimum we'd suggest getting the following three additional items

Wii Play - A collection of great mini games in different genres (Tanks, Skeet Shooting, Laser Hockey are our favorites) that has the advantage of coming with a FREE second Wii Remote. This is a great value purchase and really helps to balance out your initial range of games for maximum enjoyment.

Wii Play is about $45.

An extra Nunchuck - So that a second player has a complete controller set (in conjunction with the free Wii Remote you get with Wii Play above).

The Wii Nunchuk is about $18.

A Wii Component cable - Whilst the Wii doesn't do high definition output it does do 480P output. This so called 'progressive' mode means the games look more solid on screen because an entire frame is draw at once instead of alternate lines being draw on alternate frames (interlaced). Trust us, it's worth it especially if you're putting the Wii on the main TV in the living room as it's a flat tv.

A Wii component cable should cost no more than $15 don't be fooled into buying 'oxygen free copper cable in fancy packaging'. Of course we've already found one for you that costs around $13.

With this small collection of initial addons you'll have a Wii with about twice as many games in a variety of genres, full two player enjoyment of those games in best clarity the Wii can produce thus optimizing your initial Wii purchase for an additional $75.

Just don't forget the batteries.