Nintendo feeling Keving Butler's (and maybe Move's too) pressure? :-P

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Cheebee said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

I read in some previous thread that in April Gamestop bundled Wii with Wii Sports Resort and WM+ with no overprice, but now Nintendo is doing it.

No price cut, at least for the time being, but maybe more significantly yesterday for the first time I heard on the radio the most known celeb Nintendo hires for advertising in Italy announcing the official bundle: for no overprice on the usual list price, "less than" 199.99€, now Wii will be bundled not only with Wii Sports, but also with Wii Sports Resort and Wii Motion Plus. I don't know whether retailers will apply to the new bundle the usual 10-20€ discount they applied before, though. Maybe they'll cash in on it as long as possible...

Anyway, t3h almighty K3vin Butl3r did what Move and Natal alone couldn't! 

But in Wii's favour, despite the small blow to its previous apparent invincibility, this should make it a lot safer from Move's attack. And while some blind fanboy was in denial, I wrote in the past that to counter Move's attack, Nintendo would have been forced to offer 1:1 tracking standard, with no overprice and not as optional anymore.

I guess the most sensible move now would be to start producing WiiMotes with WM+ built-in, to cut costs.

 

 

Dude, seriously? You're from Italy right? We've had this bundle (black Wii+Sports+WS Resort+WM Plus) for like a year now in Europe. The official one from Nintendo, not retailer-specific bundles, mind you. You honestly didn't know that, or was Italy an exception and didn't get the bundle until now..? O_o I find the latter hard to believe. Honestly, it's been out for ages, and yes, a lot of retailers do sell it for even less than €199... in fact I saw it just yesterday for just €172.

Maybe in the Netherlands, but I heard of it here for the first time yesterday and even big stores hadn't it on their shelves yet.

I saw around Black Wii with WSR and WM+ bundles, but before this offer I never found them for less than 225€ anywhere, maybe there were some limited offers at less than 200€, but limited, now it looks like it's official.

I'd like to know about this in France, I checked now on Kelkoo France and found black Wii + WSR + WM+ bundles for as low as 173€, but white bundles are still over 200€, so it looks like if it's official it's quite a new thing there too.

Maybe black Wii didn't sell well in EU? It should have been more expensive than white, originally. So it looks like in Italy either sales were satisfying enough to no cut the price, or retailers weren't ready to cut their margin to sell more of them.

Anyhow, just checked Kelkoo Italy too and currently the best offer for the new white bundle is 180€, while until the last week the best I could find around was roughly that price for Wii + Wii Sports only.