Wii U Price Slashed Basic £149, Premium £199 with Nintendoland

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Conegamer said:

Osc89 said:

Conegamer said:
A single store dropping price =/= official price change.

Now, if Nintendo were to advertise some games and make it this price (or around it) officially, expect to see them flying off the shelves. As it is, probably just a loss leader promotion.

HMV has had this price for a month + ZombiU. That was to clear the remaining stock, and it looks like it is the same for ASDA if you check the website.

But HMV has more Wii U bundles in stock now, so if they were clearing stock just to get more back in it seems a tad silly. 

Really? The last I heard they were stopping hardware sales. The remaining HMVs here in London had cleared out everything but the Beats headphones when I went in last month. I thought that the price cut was necessary what with all the stores closing so they would have space, which was why they were taking the £70 hit on each one. It happened straight after a 2-for-1 blue sticker sale on lots of things like phone accessories, so they were all really empty.

As for Asda, it just seems like too big a cut for a loss leader, so I assume they are doing the same thing. It is costing the retailers too much to hang onto the Wii Us for Nintendo for so long. It is kind of worrying, I assumed it would be an HMV one off due to their financial troubles, but if Asda are doing it too they might be giving up on the Wii U for a while.