Well, this was Monster Hunter, not Mario Kart. Price was never the problem, it's software all the way. I'd say the pre-Wii U dreams of Nintendomination and third party parity and stealing Japan foreverz have been pretty thoroughly smashed on the rocks of reality, but it's not exactly hopeless. Things will look up when Nintendo releases some of their games that people actually care about.

It "slashed" about £50 off actually.

Hardware prices in the UK aren't as fixed as the US, you will never pay RRP in the UK unless you're a sucker and just buy at the first shop that has one, which would be any electrical store.

I got my Wii-U Premium for £200 about a month ago and not from HMV.

Zaavi was doing the Premium for £225 for a few weeks.

It's ALWAYS available at £250 (Premium), 8GB is available for £189 in a similar fashion, that is the real accepted price if you can't wait for a deal to get it for less.

The HMV sale is a one off because HMV are in the shit and will try anything to spark some interest in it's stores. Admittedly it did come with Zombie-U as well for £200 which is a massive price cut, but Zombie-U can be purchased for £23 so it's not quite the £140 you mention.

Dear princesss *bows* I must disagree : MH was the best chance to get non-nintendo fans on board (I myself kinda want the game), it is very attractive for RPG fans at large. On the other hand, MK should impact less since the Nintendo loyals already have the system. They may lure some casuals with it but the price is still a barrier though...

Well, this was Monster Hunter, not Mario Kart. Price was never the problem, it's software all the way. I'd say the pre-Wii U dreams of Nintendomination and third party parity and stealing Japan foreverz have been pretty thoroughly smashed on the rocks of reality, but it's not exactly hopeless. Things will look up when Nintendo releases some of their games that people actually care about.

im off to make me some WiiU doom threads. i mean WiiU getting one non doom thread is enough. 

I agree (also an avid HUKD visitor :) that site has cost me thousands lol!)

I'm sure a proprotion can be attributed to HMV but I don't think it's quite as a contributing factor as some may think. There aren't that many HMV stores in the UK that aren't in very highly populated areas and generally speaking, which is reason it's gone down, very few shop there even in inner city which is where all the stores would be with a lot of stock. In Wales where I live there's Swansea and Cardiff and that's it, the Swnsea one is miniscule (heck it might have even shut down haven't been there for years). I know that generally HMV operates quite a few smaller stores where I can't imagine they'd have had that much stock.

There's also the view that HMV has actually shut down completely amongst quite a segment of the population.

Of course that's quite an anecdotal opinion but I'm sure you're aware as much as me since you know about HUKD and the like, it's not a popular shopping destination, and even HUKD although massively popular is certainly not a website that everyone knows about. Also have to ask the question of stock, did they really shift thousands at that price, hard to say.

Could be what made up the lions share of the increase, could not be...hard to say, just flipping the coin a bit to give another viewpoint :)