Wii to change price.....upwards!!!

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Wyku on 11 March 2009

The price of a Wii in Canada is higher now than when I bought it a year and a half(?) ago, although not significantly. This is due to the Canadian Dollar dropping in value a bit since then. So it's not totally unheard of.

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famousringo on 11 March 2009

Today, 1 British pound will buy you 135 yen.

Two years ago, it would have bought 230 yen.

Nintendo isn't doing this because they want to. Currency fluctuations really have wiped out their profit margin on UK Wii sales.

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dolemit3 on 11 March 2009

It looks like they are planning to increase the software prices as well:

Nintendo has not ruled out a rise in prices for new software releases in the UK, due to the depreciation of the pound.

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Alterego-X on 11 March 2009

senortaco said:
I saw this on gamasutra, makes you wonder just how bad the Pound is doing if NINTENDO has to raise their price to remain profitable.

...You've GOT to wonder if the other competitors are willing to continue to bite the bullet or will raise their price abit as well.

I think, they were still profitable, and it was only the lack of a proper reason that stopped them from raising it's prices earlier, to meet the demand.

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hatmoza 2.0 on 11 March 2009

dolemit3 said:
Sony will probably follow them with the PS3.

HAHA its posts like these that give me hope for mankind.

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sabby_e17 on 11 March 2009

nintendo getting greedy

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sabby_e17 on 11 March 2009

this will probaly mean more people buying 360s in the uk

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ferret1094 on 11 March 2009

The Wii can be bought under RRP anyway, so this will probably just push it back to the standard £179.99.

Eg:
£164.98 at dvd.co.uk
£166.37 at shopto.net

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lilwingman on 11 March 2009

This makes absolutely no sense. The Wii hasn't received a single price cut since it released a couple years ago. So production costs have not dropped AT ALL after all this time... Come on Nintendo, how much money do you honestly want?