I was easily able to find 3DSs on BestBuy and GameStop
It was quite a statement by Nintendo to keep the MSRP of a Wii U at $299. You know it's bad when they don't even give a shit to sell them in the last year or two of it's shelf life.
That sucks. I was hoping for fire sales before the Switch launches. I was hoping to get one below $200.
That sucks. I was hoping for fire sales before the Switch launches. I was hoping to get one below $200.
I'd love to be surprised, but I seriously doubt the price aggression of a company that's still selling New 3DS XLs for $199. If they couldn't cut costs years into the life of the Wii U to justify selling under $299, I'm gonna hazard a guess that they probably won't come in much lighter with a more powerful system with a much better controller screen.
Why is Nintendo so stubborn with Wii U pricing? It's as if they don't want the console to sell.
More consoles in people's homes = more software sales
Nobody's going to buy that shit for a premium price at this point.
The lump of coal for today's ageMaybe they're giving them away for charity....just in time for xmas!
If you do, just grab a $200 "refurbished" one off their website.Damn, I wanted a 2nd Wii U for the 2nd Game pad mostly, but now seeing as how Nintendo is causing panic, we'll be fighting tooth and nail for a Wii U. I'm debating buying one soon, but hopefully its the Wii U getting ready to be slashed in prices.
So are the refurbs actually brand new?
Why not just drop the price for what's left on hand? Are all these Wii Us going to end up in the landfill with E.T.?
That's not how this works..If these things were sitting on store shelves, Nintendo already made their money on them.
I remember you could get a GCN for like, $50-$100 new in the store around the launch of the Wii. It was a great time.
Stock for them has been dropping locally since before Thanksgiving. I checked Best Buy website, Gamestop, Target, and Wal-Mart. They all show out of stock online and locally. Brickseek shows only 21% in stock nationwide for Target and 41% for Wal-Mart.
GameStop has this though:
http://www.gamestop.com/wii-u/consoles/mario-kart-8-wii-u-32gb-pre-owned-edition/139853
Did they just send them back to corporate then turn them into used to offload the inventory?
I'd buy a Wii U / Game Bundle (nintendoland doesn't count) for no more than $200 right now just to have one. If it was $150 without a game I'd jump all over it.
So are the refurbs actually brand new?
Why no discount though?
5 years from now, NIB Wii Us will be fetching $450+ as a whole movement starts up talking about how Wii U was actually Nintendo's best console.
Seems to me that the recent announcements of cancelled WiiU versions of games makes a lot more sense now and Nintendo is going full original Xbox with the WiiU and trying to kill it as quickly as humanly possible.
You aren't that far off: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MVUKM0A/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Seems like there's a bit of a run going on... from walmart.com via 3rd party seller:
Seems like there's a bit of a run going on... from walmart.com via 3rd party seller:
I remember picking up a Dreamcast when they were marked down to $50, I'd pick up a Wii U for $50 lol
Any chance Nintendo launches Switch earlier than anticipated? Like next month?
there's tons of people (myself included) who've been screaming from the rooftops for a couple of years about how the WiiU has the best library of any Nintendo system since the SNES :\