# Rumor: Wii price cut in October

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786>\
**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:** 2\
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**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/61 "2009-09-28T23:22:41Z")

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> [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](#):
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> From [this](http://www.toyratt.com/systems/assets/NES2.jpg)to [this](http://www.n-sider.com/media/database-hardware-nesredesign01.jpg), in case you’re not familiar.

Your second link isn’t working, I suspect because because they don’t like people stealing their bandwidth. [let’s try this one.](http://atariace.com/images/atariace.com/nintendo/systems/images/nes-complete-top-loader-0100262.jpg)

Also notice that the controller resembles the SNES one, as well. I knew a guy who had one, though I think he got it long after the initial release off of eBay. At any rate, he was in my fraternity and it made playing the LARGE collection of NES games a lot easier. Yeah, we could have used emulators, but it’s a much better experience to play old school NES games on a real TV with a real controller in a room full of people telling you when to jump. 😃

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**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 29, 2009, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-wii-price-cut-in-october/509786/62 "2009-09-29T00:15:55Z")

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I’ve seen one in real life but I don’t own one myself. I think the original NES design is more ascetically pleasing but the redesign is a lot like the Famicom. Of course the Famicom used a smaller profile on the cartridge which prevented it from looking as unbalanced the the NES redesign…

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