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

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Cheebee said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

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.

Hmm. That's really strange, I guess Italy really must've been an exception, then. 'Cos it really has been out since last year pretty much all over Europe, as far as I know. I've seen it on a lot of different European retailers' websites, and from a lot of European members here, too, from different countries. Here's the initial announcement: http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/news/2009/limited_edition_black_wii_bundle_announced_for_europe_including_wii_sports_resort_and_wii_motionplus_14833.html

... It's been out for over 7 months already. The official Nintendo-suggested pricepoint was €199, if it was sold for much more, then that was individual retailers being greedy I guess (I do know a lot of retailers over here were welling it for €209 instead of €199, but 10 euros isn't that bad, luckily). The black bundle was apparently supposed to be a 'limited edition', too, but that was just PR-talk, as it's been readily available since it launched, and shops are being re-stocked on a regular basis.

The regular white Wiis (without M+ and Resort) are sort of all over the place when it comes to pricing, I've seen them online and in actual shops ranging from €169-€229... A lot of shops even had the white one selling alongside the black one, which had all the extras, but sold the white one for the same price or even a lot more. Just weird.

Ah well, Europe's strange that way, sometimes, with all the different countries, retailers, and currencies. After all, Nintendo's 'official' pricepoint is only a suggested one, and individual retailers are free to price their products any way they want. Sometimes that sucks, but it can lead to some sweet deals, as well.

The difference is not huge, but enough, no retailer here could have been able to sell Wii+WS at 189€ (the most common price, while 179€ was the best price) if the bundle Wii+WS+WSR+WM+ was available at 199€.

About that announce, I knew of it and I saw them around since the beginning, it's just the price that was quite higher here. Anyway, I couldn't find an official price for it neither in your link, nor in the articles written back then that I googled.