# Rumor: Wii price cut in October **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 12, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786 "2009-09-12T03:17:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/21 "2009-09-13T17:26:37Z")
Thanks, I’ll try it. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/22 "2009-09-25T20:48:49Z")
:slight resurrection: [And now they have done it.](http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/nintendo-s-holiday-gambit-a-wii-price-cut/1357014) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/23 "2009-09-25T21:32:24Z")
On the one hand, yay. On the other, what happened to the practice of packaging whatever the current Mario game is with whatever the current Nintendo system is? I don’t want effin’ Wii Sports. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/24 "2009-09-25T21:44:15Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > On the one hand, yay. On the other, what happened to the practice of packaging whatever the current Mario game is with whatever the current Nintendo system is? I don’t want effin’ Wii Sports. Nintendo hasn’t done that in almost 20 years grandpa. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/25 "2009-09-25T21:48:32Z")
The N64 came with SM64. That wasn’t 20 years ago was it? I sure as hell hope not because I’m going to want to know where a few of those years went. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/26 "2009-09-25T21:49:50Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > The N64 came with SM64. Ummm, mine didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/27 "2009-09-25T21:56:03Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Ummm, mine didn’t. None of that did. Nintendo stopped doing that in 1991 with Super Mario World. Super Mario 64 was one of only two games available at the N64’s launch (Pilotwings 64 was the other). So it only seemed like it was packed in with the system. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/28 "2009-09-25T21:56:22Z")
Mine did. EDIT: Damn. Foiled again. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/29 "2009-09-26T00:22:01Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > The N64 came with SM64. That wasn’t 20 years ago was it? I sure as hell hope not because I’m going to want to know where a few of those years went. It did? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/30 "2009-09-26T01:16:38Z")
I’m almost positive my N64 came with Mario 64. It also came with Star Wars Racer and Star Wars somethingorother. Rogue Squadron or something? I want to say I got Starfox in the deal too. I don’t remember buying any of those, and I _know_ I would not have bought the Star Wars games. I wouldn’t have bought the console at all if it didn’t come bundled with Mario. Got it at a Price Club or Costco’s or someplace like that, most likely a year or more after the console was released. Around '99 or 2000 I think. ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/31 "2009-09-26T01:48:53Z")
The N64 came out in 1996, on the same day as Quake. You probably picked up a retailer’s bundle, which isn’t the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/32 "2009-09-26T01:52:31Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Nintendo hasn’t done that in almost 20 years grandpa. 😉 On the other hand my brother got a Gamecube with a copy of _Pokemon: Whatever The Hell the Gamecube One Was_. So it wasn’t like they completely skipped the concept of pack ins between the SNES and Wii. And I have to eat my words here. I figured Nintendo wouldn’t go for this until November for the maximum holiday sales buzz but I guess they want to give it some time to build. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/33 "2009-09-26T16:37:29Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > None of that did. Nintendo stopped doing that in 1991 with Super Mario World. Super Mario 64 was one of only two games available at the N64’s launch (Pilotwings 64 was the other). So it only seemed like it was packed in with the system. I got one on the first day and it was definitely bundled with SM64. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/34 "2009-09-26T17:11:45Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I got one on the first day and it was definitely bundled with SM64. In the US or UK? I got one very close to launch too, and I remember being pissed that they weren’t doing a bundle. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/35 "2009-09-26T17:24:28Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I got one on the first day and it was definitely bundled with SM64. As did I and my copy of SM64 came separate. Actually, I got SM64 a few days before I got the system because Nintendo put the games on sale a few days before the system launched. But there was no bundle, I’m sure. The only bundle was a Pokemon one created in the waning days of the system for Toys R Us. [http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/image/916387.html](http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/image/916387.html) ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/36 "2009-09-26T19:14:33Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > As did I and my copy of SM64 came separate. Actually, I got SM64 a few days before I got the system because Nintendo put the games on sale a few days before the system launched. > > But there was no bundle, I’m sure. The only bundle was a Pokemon one created in the waning days of the system for Toys R Us. > > [http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/image/916387.html](http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/image/916387.html) That may have been the only _game_ bundle, but maybe a year or two after the N64 was released there was a special bundle that came with an extra, purple see-through, controller. Edit: Actually, it maybe not have been an _extra_ controller, it might jsut have been that the one it came with was purple. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/37 "2009-09-26T19:19:45Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > That may have been the only _game_ bundle, but maybe a year or two after the N64 was released there was a special bundle that came with an extra, purple see-through, controller. > > Edit: Actually, it maybe not have been an _extra_ controller, it might jsut have been that the one it came with was purple. Well, he was clearly talking about game bundles. And a new color for the controller isn’t exactly any kind of bundle anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/38 "2009-09-27T02:08:17Z")
No, it was definitely an official Nintendo game bundle. One controller and SM64 (plus the system and power cable, of course). I got it at EB and they were giving away a free off-brand (MadCatz, I think) Controller Pak too. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/39 "2009-09-27T02:26:19Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > No, it was definitely an official Nintendo game bundle. One controller and SM64 (plus the system and power cable, of course). > > I got it at EB and they were giving away a free off-brand (MadCatz, I think) Controller Pak too. Was the game inside the N64 box or did it come separately in its own packaging? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/40 "2009-09-27T02:32:58Z")
In the box. IIRC, there was a picture of 64ized Mario’s head on the corner of the box and it said “Mario 64 included!” or something like that, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786.md?page=3)