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

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Cheebee said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

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.

Ah okay, so you did know, I thought you didn't know about the European black bundle at all until now, but it was just that it was more expensive, then. Yeah, so that was just individual retailers being greedy, haha.

The new black bundle was launched in Europe in November, but prior to that, in September, the original bundle (white Wii + Wii sports) got a pricecut, from €249 to €199.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/europe-gets-eur-50-wii-price-cut_1?unbury=1293141

When the black bundle with WS Resort & WM+ came along a couple of months later, the price stayed the same, so €199. There was no mention of a pricecut then, because really the price didn't drop. It remained €199, but because the new bundle included WM+ & WS Resort, the overall value of the bundle was higher.

 

Incidentally, back then the UK & Ireland didn't get the pricecut for the white Wii + Sports, but instead a bundle including WS Resort and WM+ for the old high price.

See this link for further clarification: http://nintendo-revolution.blogspot.com/2009/09/nintendo-cuts-wii-price-by-twenty.html

'Just to clarify the situation in Europe: Nintendo has not set a recommended retail price, but will reduce the wholesale price of the console. This will result in a price cut from €249 to €199, valid for the whole of Europe, except for the UK and Ireland. There, the price will remain but the bundle will be upgraded by the inclusion of ´Wii Sports Resort´ and a Motion Plus dongle.'

Later, in November, this bundle was made into the official black Wii bundle and released in the rest of Europe, albeit at the current €199 pricepoint.

I suspected, after your first replies, and alas you are confirming it to me, that actually they were the Italian retailers to be awfully greedy.

But suggesting the reason was Kevin Butler is still more amusing!