fly high ~ayunite~
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Wii launched at £179, £20 HD tax?
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NiNintendo Wii U console £199.99 @ Amazon UK [update: price & pre-orders removed]
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Sir_Crocodile
Member
on like donkey kongs schlong
please don't be cancelled(this is going to be cancelled).
please don't be cancelled(this is going to be cancelled).
fly high ~ayunite~
Member
About their pre-order guarantee
Goldrusher
Member
The date isn't funny, weird or confusing. The person in charge of this could have believed it was the correct/final date.
Smiles and Cries
Member
seems like a smart move to order ASAP
ReturnOfTheRAT
Member
1:1, what year are you from?
fly high ~ayunite~
Member
Yeah, seems like a win/win whatever happens regarding the price.
EternalDarko
Member
I spent more on getting a replacement ipad due to a cracked screen. Pre-ordered.
mocolostrocolos
Member
Pre-ordered.
Cerebral Assassin
Member
From the Terms & Conditions:
"Pre-order Price Guarantee applies only to not-yet-released books, CDs, videos, DVDs, software, and video games. It does not apply to other product lines or to items that have already been released."
No mention of Consoles on there.
I doubt this will actually come in at £199 and I fully expect my pre-order to be cancelled, but in the outside possibly this price point is even remotely real, Nintendo are going to shift a LOT of these at Christmas.
Strong marketing, new hardware, Mario, Wii Fit, Just Dance 4 and a price point below the all important £200 mental barrier would be a really, really solid launch for Nintendo.
Strong marketing, new hardware, Mario, Wii Fit, Just Dance 4 and a price point below the all important £200 mental barrier would be a really, really solid launch for Nintendo.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Uhhh... £150 would probably be about right, I think.
Smiles and Cries
Member
I wish Amazon.com would give the US an nice price to pre-order I am afraid to go and miss out on a good price
any other locations besides UK have the Amazon shop page up?
it will be easy for Udraw for Wii to come up on a search for Wii U for months to come so this is nothing we need to derail the thread about
any other locations besides UK have the Amazon shop page up?
Found searching Wii U console on American site and looks as expected:
$47.99 or $38.89 for black one
it will be easy for Udraw for Wii to come up on a search for Wii U for months to come so this is nothing we need to derail the thread about
flipping_heck
Member
Just pre ordered, if it's going up in price or a mistake then I cancel...simple
Pre-ordered PURELY to see if Amazon honour it.
If it's total and utter screw-up, I'll never get charged for it anyway. It's obviously not £199.99...but then again, after the low price of the Wii (too low), and the high price of the 3DS (too high), bundled with the fact that the hardware isn't exactly high spec, it COULD be true.
Actually yeah. It does make sense. Considering both the PS3 and 360 are below £150 to buy now, £199.99 is a great launch price for Nintendo. About that date though - lol.
If it's total and utter screw-up, I'll never get charged for it anyway. It's obviously not £199.99...but then again, after the low price of the Wii (too low), and the high price of the 3DS (too high), bundled with the fact that the hardware isn't exactly high spec, it COULD be true.
Actually yeah. It does make sense. Considering both the PS3 and 360 are below £150 to buy now, £199.99 is a great launch price for Nintendo. About that date though - lol.
Pancakes R Us
Member
Interesting. Any higher than this and I think the system could struggle. Especially if PS360 get a further price cut/good bundling before Christmas (aren't the both already under £200?
I own a NTSC Wii system here in the UK, so going to import again in order to be able to transfer my VC games and play my US games if I ever need to.
I own a NTSC Wii system here in the UK, so going to import again in order to be able to transfer my VC games and play my US games if I ever need to.
walking fiend
Member
amazon is so going to lose a lot of money over this; already has crawled to their first page of best seller games.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Wow, I am impressed by that price.
I was expecting something like £249, pre-order done!
I was expecting something like £249, pre-order done!
EternalDarko
Member
Come on cjelly, a 250gb 360 comes in at about 180...and the wiiU is clearly more advanced than that. If it came in at 200-250, i'd still buy (granted some decent games are out on launch - meaning P-100, Rayman and ZombieU)
Samurai_Heart
Member
In all circumstances it won't be you that's cancelling it XD. It will be amazon =p
haha goddamnit
if it was a couple of isolated incidents, I'm sure they'd honour the price. But not now.
gotta be expected though
Starwolf_UK
Member
Nintendo won't announce a price (wholesale or whatever) until 5 minutes before launch. Currencies seem that volatile now. Also the whole not announce RRP thing* is a measure to make the wholesale price dynamic pretty much with the shrugging of "its up to retailers what margins they make". i.e. disconnect themselves from the reality that their software does command high wholesale costs. I do wonder how that will change with digital game cards activated at checkout (since IIRC the retailer can set it up that they only pay for the inventory the moment it is sold, thus high wholesale costs don't lead to high inventory costs and the risks of "what if this is another Jam with the Band?")
*-Aside from the "European commission, we gave you evidence of our price fixing, can you lower the fine we've been stalling from paying since 2002? We're good now, we don't do it" line.
They might even be stealthy and just delete the orders.
*-Aside from the "European commission, we gave you evidence of our price fixing, can you lower the fine we've been stalling from paying since 2002? We're good now, we don't do it" line.
This reminds me when the £ started to go down the gutter NoE increased the wholesale price by £20. Most retailers passed that onto their customers. So Wiis were £199 in many places for a while.
If they're serious about digital (but not geolocking) then it might work out cheaper to have a US system...provided it does not break and you have some way of topping it with funds. Of course this relies on the no longer true principle of NOA rox...it seems the management at Nintendo has a vested interest in making sure each subsidiary is bad so that the 1% of super-fans who will double and even triple dip hardware (surly more to be made in getting the 99% to import software they would previous lack the opportunity to purchase...but that gives retailers that power too...)
Or they'll cancel a lot of orders. As they have done in the past with these things. The price guarantee has some withdrawal clause for obvious muck-ups like this plus it is invitation to buy so does not have to be honored.walking fiend said:
They might even be stealthy and just delete the orders.
Amazon doesn't stealth delete the order, it will be a very formal apology email. Beside, it's not uncommon for them to dole out Amazon credit as an apology =P
More like 299$
I really, really hope they'll be playable. What a letdown it would be if they're not.
I mean, isn't it about just switching the display from a screen to another one?
Concidering all those games that need a wiimote, some could truly be awkward but all those games that can play with CCPro could easily transfer the controls to the gamepad, the buttons layout is identical ffs. D:
Well, I've put down a pre-order. Worst case scenario is it's a bad mis-price and Amazon will kill it, best case is that Amazon are trying to get as many orders in early and are willing to take a hit.
£200 isn't stupidly low if it's the latter, and I hope they'll honour it. I fully expect the price to go straight up if they get a lot of pre-orders though, so if you even are considering the WiiU here in the UK, get an order it, after all you don't pay until the thing is launched so it's not exactly a risk!
£200 isn't stupidly low if it's the latter, and I hope they'll honour it. I fully expect the price to go straight up if they get a lot of pre-orders though, so if you even are considering the WiiU here in the UK, get an order it, after all you don't pay until the thing is launched so it's not exactly a risk!
fly high ~ayunite~
Member
It mentions the pre-order price guarantee tho
Yeah, and that basically does mean consoles are included.
People were honoured on the 3DS and Vita.
m.i.s.
Banned
You might be right but the price looks more reasonable when you compare it to the price of a 360 or PS3 (which also play DVD's and Blu Ray which the Wii U does not) and come with more than 8GB of storage.
Just for fun, previous Nintendo system launch prices in the UK.
SNES - £150
N64 - £250
GCN - £130
Wii - £180
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
It mentions the pre-order price guarantee tho
Amazon have got around this in the past... they just put the actual product up under a different ID and say this product isn't available.
Officerrob
Banned
This is exactly what will happen
That GCN price. I remember when the price was announced. Great days being a 16 year old.
djplaeskool
Member
VAT for entering NintendoLand, among other tariffs.
Chiaroscuro
Member
Really???
Aaaaand that is why my parents brought me an N64 at christmas 1997 (or was it 1996?)...with no games.
With inflation, it's £380 today. Fuck me. Gamecube was a great price. Got it on launch day (May 3rd, if I remember correctly!), along with Rogue Leader. Excellent stuff.
m.i.s.
Banned
Yes really.
It tanked at that price. I'll find the dates (if I can be bothered) but it was reduced to, first, £150, and then again, to £100 in a matter of months.
Indeed it did. My dad bought me an N64 the moment it hit £150, but with games at £60 at the time, I spent a long while with just Wave Race and Mario 64, thankfully both games were awesome.
Seriously, while a potential mis-price (I'm expecting a final price of £230-£250), £199 isn't really outside of the realms of possibility. I'm hoping Amazon honour the price, because the price really is day 1 pricing for me.
cyberheater
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Yes really. And I remember trading it in for a US machine that was a fair bit more expensive. I also remember paying £70 for Turok and at the time thinking it was worth every penny.
Crazy.
I still remember Christmas 2000, when I got Majora's Mask, DK64 and 007: World is Not Enough.
£59.99 for DK64, £49.99 for Zelda and £45 for Bond. Thankfully, I had lots of relatives. People moan about prices of games today, but seriously - compared to my youth, they're cheap as fuck now.
£59.99 for DK64, £49.99 for Zelda and £45 for Bond. Thankfully, I had lots of relatives. People moan about prices of games today, but seriously - compared to my youth, they're cheap as fuck now.