About time. It was a bad sku from the start and unless you really wanted the color white it was hard to justify buying the basic considering all you got with the deluxe model.
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New WiiU Bundle coming?
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About time. It was a bad sku from the start and unless you really wanted the color white it was hard to justify buying the basic considering all you got with the deluxe model.
I keep forgetting that the deluxe is $350, and I'm not sure how to measure these things appropriately. Either way, I'm still picking one up this Winter, with or without the price cut.
HitokiriNate85
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I imagine because dropping the price of the Basic now will make a price drop on the Deluxe less enticing.
I could potentially see the second one happening. Not the first one, though. Nintendo ain't throwing away their evergreen games like that.
A bit insane, PS4 and X1 will be around $399, Nintendo needs to drop the price to have at least a $100 dollar difference.
Given the suspected tech in the WiiU, it has to be the gamepad price really hurting them, are they yet making profit on every WiiU unit?
frankie_baby
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How is the flash memory attached to the motherboard? Would it be possible for Nintendo to just rip it out and stick 32gb in?
I have bad news for you about the future...
Also as far as the holidays go I think they will try to recoup some of their margins by introducing a 64GB system that will come in place of the the Deluxe.
Square Triangle
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You really think I'd waste my time making something up as silly as this? That's unfortunate.
frankie_baby
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There can't be that many of them out there I guess they could possibly hold on to them and put them out as a budget black Friday deal/bundle or something
fargofallout
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While I agree completely, calling the WiiU's memory a "hard drive" is a bit of a stretch. You can buy a USB drive with more storage space than the WiiU has.
I'm trying to recall the last time Nintendo added ports to their console.
:brofist:
Basic Bundle was the way to go. Avoid game I would never want even if it was my last day on Earth alive, and then just update with a big external drive instead of the criminally tiny HDD on either bundle.
Solid SOAP
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$300 for the Deluxe sounds pretty good to me, especially if they have some sort of Mario / Smash Bros. bundle planned. I don't want to get my hopes up though.
Bending_Unit_22
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Seems like something they would plan for, or if not I wonder if it makes sense to just leave them in a warehouse as future basic replacements.
metalslimer
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The 250 deluxe plus game is going to be nice. I kind of would like to see the meltdowns if the ps4 actually turned out to be 350. Id get a basic for sub 200
Linkstrikesback
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I'm not convinced another sku is the solution. It'd probably work out better to just drop basic completely, and provide a range of Premium bundles with different games included. Say, one with Nintendoland, another with NSMBU, and one with Lego City. Add more later as 3D Mario and Mario kart whenever they come out. Some more third party packs with Monster Hunter, or any willing 3rd party games might help too.
Possibly have them all include a digital nintendoland + one another retail game, the cost of a digital nintendoland is minimal, so it shouldn't affect price too much.
Nintendoland isn't a bad game, and I'm glad I have a copy of it, but it absolutely is not the system seller that Wii Sports was.
MisterHero
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Wii's only SKU had a far greater price difference vs PS3 and 360's most expensive bundles. With that difference people could afford a pile of games or even a DS.
I don't see such a big advantage now, but a new price is in the right direction.
Hi i'm Caleb
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kittens
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Recalled as in "being sent back to Nintendo"? Or will they let the current stock sell out?
Either way, I'm glad they're ditching that SKU. Felt rather pointless to me, too. Guess that means that white Premium is releasing outside of Japan, too.
Either way, I'm glad they're ditching that SKU. Felt rather pointless to me, too. Guess that means that white Premium is releasing outside of Japan, too.
Never get a console when e3 is nearby, you never know.
It's VAPittis, every time he sees something bad against Nintendo he comes and posts aggressively in that way without trying to build conversation. I saw that too many times in MediaCreate threads, I know.
Jacksonlee
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seriously, an 8 gig hardrive? what was Nintendo doing with their lives?
Exactly this. During the holidays they'll pack-in Mario 3D or Mario Kart with Nintendo Land or NSMBU for $350.
Yeah, wait one week.
frankie_baby
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Well we've had a range of premium bundles in Europe, Nintendoland, zombiu and monhun
nckillthegrimace
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So how long would it take to recall and repurpose these systems? Will it be done before E3? Maybe they'll announce it a few weeks after E3? Either way, I think we've figured out NoA's July hole. All the marketing money is going to promoting the price cut. They should really slide out a new game alongside it, though. They can probably shit out a Mario Kart by then.
HarryDemeanor
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I wish they had a white deluxe at launch.
Cbajd5
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They don't even call it a hard drive, because it's not. It's simple flash storage like the Wii's 512 MB but bigger, designed to hold saves and small/commonly used games or apps.
At best they'll up the internal storage to 32GB and make them new Deluxe systems but in white. Otherwise for increasing storage space I'd imagine they would just include an external hard drive.
Or they might just hold them for the holidays, stick a game in the box and slap a sticker on it making it a value bundle or something.
(P.S. Everyone play Nintendo Land. That Pikmin Adventure is fun.)
I know, I know. The lack of 5.1 bothers the hell out of me though. Makes the hardware itself seem even more outdated than it already is. Playing Bayonetta 2, whatever Retro is cooking up, etc. is going to be a bit lame coming out of my TV speakers.
We already know that japan is getting a new bundle the week Pikmin 3 comes out. It would be pretty much impossible for them to do all that work in a week so it won't be done before E3.
Yeah no.
Step one of relaunching your console: remove the unsellable stock that's clogging up the retailers.
I just bought a Wii U Basic 1.5 months ago! Anyways I got that plus a new Nintendoland for $300.
That's a different problem. Nintendo went for LPCM for surround sound, so those with older home theaters that only do Dolby (like me) are left out.
That's a different problem. Nintendo went for LPCM for surround sound, so those with older home theaters that only do Dolby (like me) are left out.
Quadraphonic
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That leaked Super Secret memo mentioned a new red core Wii U bundle.
This lines up.
This lines up.
TwEE-N-Toast
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...and four pro controllers, 4 wiimotes and nunchucks too why not?
Gamer @ Heart
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Repurpose them and change them to deluxe?
At the very least, reusing the white gamepads is as simple as switching the boxes.
Most likely, the recalling is a protective move agreed to by retailers and Nintendo doesnt want them firesale'd off because its not a dead product (cue jokes) and create market confusion about the price.
CoolZombie360
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I did.
The Dutch Slayer
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I'm waiting on a WiiU with Zelda WW HD bundel then I'll be picking one up, or Mario 3D bundle witch ever comes first.
I'm not disagreeing with you but 5.1 isn't exactly new and cutting edge lol.
A new SKU is how they keep margins much like how MS and Sony did it (And how Apple/Google/Amazon do it with tablets). A memory bump isn't super expensive but can demand a higher price and so driving consumers to premium models alleviates the costs of having low end models that are break even or lossy.
They should have bundled Nintendoland in all console just like Wii Sports. People choosing not to buy it was bad because even people who didn't want Wii Sports were often showing it off to other people and it built good word-of-mouth. Nintendoland didn't have quite that opportunity and is a great game. This is one of their biggest mistakes in my opinion.
Stuffing in digital Nintendoland versus disc is a good cost saver especially now that it can fit snugly on 32GB.
If they drop price then no other pack-ins would immediately be necessary. I think maybe some specially priced packs in November is something they should do but probably not right away.
frankie_baby
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That was the Wii mini
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