There’s a “not really news” story floating around the internets today, clogging up the tubes. Evidently, Electronic Arts thinks the Nintendo Wii will retail for $170. Surprising news, right? Sure, unless you’re familiar with the news story Shacknews posted last week regarding a Japanese financial analysis firm saying that exact same thing, citing lower CPU chipset prices as potentially alleviating some of Nintendo’s Wii production costs.

The best part of this story has to be the 1up article title, “EA says Wii price at $170? Not really”. Which looks like this in my browser:

Which is basically true. We’re led to believe that EA has some kind of insider information, but really, they’re just hearing the same predictions from the same analysts as the rest of us. They’re just getting their own quotes for the news is all.