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Wii Retro Wireless Controller




Wii Classic Controller featuring true Bluetooth technology that syncs up directly to the Wii hardware with out any pass through or dongle. Does not require a Wii remote.

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The average resale price for Nintendo's Wii hardware is now down to the system's list price of $250, a dramatic drop from its $469 resale price of during the same period in 2007. The console's resale price has steadily decreased since last year's holiday season, with a slight bump in June 2008 before resuming its descent. Pricing data site Video Game Price Charts -- which tracks "gray market" ...
All the best deals for Rock Band 2 hardware and games for Playstation 3, xbox 360 and Nintendo wii.
In the last year, our iPhones and iPod touches got jailbroken all over again, our wireless routers were graced with a new super-charged firmware, our Canon digi-cams gained pro-level powers, and we learned that our Nintendo Wiis were even neater than we'd thought. Today we want to take a long view on the best hacks of 2008
The Wii has sold around 800,000 units of hardware over the recent Thanksgiving weekend in the U.S., according to new comments made by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. The figure is more than double the 350,000 units sold at the same time last year, when the Wii still faced supply constraints. Although no specific figures were given, sales of the Nintendo DS were said to be up by 20 percent on ...
"I'm not arguing that Wii has the best titles (see: 360) or the best hardware (see: PS3), but it certainly has the best three-letter name (see: Wii), and from an objective, quantitative perspective, is the most successful console since the Playstation 2."
Conventionally speaking, platform holders in the videogames industry tend to lose money on their hardware (at least for the first couple of years) while making money through software. But if we've learned anything about the Wii by now, it's that it's far from conventional.