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Barozi on 03 May 2013
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the2real4mafol said:
kowenicki said:
the2real4mafol said:
pezus said:
I wish Amazon did this with Vita :/

Vita must be selling then, if it hasn't seen such promotions 


No. This is a UK promotion... Vita is struggling every bit as much as the WiiU in the UK, perhaps more so.

I know it's a UK promotion, but why is only the Wii U getting such promotions? I guess Nintendo are desperate to get the core market back

Already mentioned it plenty of times.

Nintendo hasn't set an official price for Europe. If the WiiU isn't selling well retailers can lower the price as they wish. On the other hand if the console is having shipment issues due to good sales (as it happened during launch with the Premium SKU) retailers can raise the price again by a lot.

Now I'm not sure how that works when retailers order Wii Us from Nintendo. The only logic way I can think of is that Nintendo is getting a fixed percentage AFTER a console has been sold to a customer.
Since we know that Nintendo is losing some money from the consoles the profit margin for retailers can't be more than £100 for the Basic SKU and I don't think retailers would sell a new item (that needs to be in stock for the following years) at such low costs.