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Barozi on 17 April 2013
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Grandia said:
pezus said:

Doesn't take much to see a dramatic increase when the baseline is close to 0 first-party games in a while.

We all know that Mario Kart and the like is coming though, but I would hope they have a price cut to go along with the games too.


Many retailers anyways already lowered the WiiU price on their own, you can get the basic WiiU at amazon.de for 198 Euro, at Releas the basic WiiU was at 299Euro. Even if Nintendo cuts the price official you sure not get the WiiU lower than 199.

Nintendo did for the first time not set an official price in Europe. This means that retailers can freely decide the price of the console. Therefore Nintendo can't make an official price cut in Europe. The inofficial price cut already happened several months ago as you already mentioned.
At the same time that means that should the demand rise during the holidays, the retailers can and will raise the price again. So every European gamer who wants to get a Wii U this year should buy one now.

Current cheapest price for the Basic model: 193€ (no shipping costs)
Cheapest price for the Premium SKU: 275€ (shipping costs included)