We tend to avoid posting news segments here. I’m way too far removed from caring about breaking news (I own a game store and I only heard about the PS3 Slim three days after it released) and Mike is… well. I have no idea. He posted on Kotaku until they took their comment section nepotism to the next level, so he’s usually my news source.

But a source inside the industry has let this tidbit drop, associated with the typical proviso that the facts can only be followed by speculation; At a recent summit, Sony dropped their price-down bomb. Nintendo immediately pulled their reps, and Microsoft pulled at least one shortly thereafter.

The most likely outcome? Cheaper Wiis. With Nintendo issuing their first half-next gen pricedown (the mediocre brain craze cash-in Big Brain Academy Wii Degree. Note the two-year-old Mario games are still $50) this may become reality. Microsoft? As Mike repeatedly points out between bouts of pumping mini-kegs, their philosophy seems to be “Get Sony”, so we’ll see what happens there.

Another bit of news that our contact dropped that might not be public yet and I’m too lazy to check otherwise; the upcoming Wii Fit Plus has all the content from the original game on its disc, locked. To unlock? Apparently it involves inserting the original Wii Fit disc. So rent it or borrow it from a friend and you have two games worth of content.

This just in; Fuck you fancy postwhore blogsites, we had it here first.

And while I’m at it, the Castlevania fighter on the Wii was originally going to be yet another installment in the stellar Metroidvania tradition of the series until a budget slash. There. I’ve been sitting on that one for for-fucking-ever.