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Cheebee said:

Could be a good sign I guess. Many people seem to be interested in the console, but the price is still too high.

I hope they're not mainly resellers to make quick money...

 

MediaMarkt is known for crazy deals and extremely aggressive marketing. They're selling stuff at a loss from time to time to get as many people in the stores as possible.

They're getting rid of their old Nintendo Land bundles. Could that be a sign that new bundles will release soon?



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chris_wing said:
Nem said:
bubblegamer said:


You have to go to that particular shop in the city mentioned in the ad. It's not nation wide. Op = Op means as long as supplies last.


Upon closer inspection, the sale was only today the 5th. The shop closed at 7pm (the sale lasted one sunday) wich was 3 hours ago, so this is hardly the bad news people want to pass it as.

Wish i had caught that sale though. This is meaningless upon the spectrum though. Means nothing.

No, it means something, not everything, but deffinetly not nothing.


It was a store's opening sale. Probably wasnt the only one. As i said, in the big spectrum this means nothing. Means that something like 30 to 50 Wii U's got sold.

Its definitly not a clearance sale like some believed. If it was i would be getting me a Wii U tomorrow. lol



Nem said:
chris_wing said:
Nem said:
bubblegamer said:


You have to go to that particular shop in the city mentioned in the ad. It's not nation wide. Op = Op means as long as supplies last.


Upon closer inspection, the sale was only today the 5th. The shop closed at 7pm (the sale lasted one sunday) wich was 3 hours ago, so this is hardly the bad news people want to pass it as.

Wish i had caught that sale though. This is meaningless upon the spectrum though. Means nothing.

No, it means something, not everything, but deffinetly not nothing.


It was a store's opening sale. Probably wasnt the only one. As i said, in the big spectrum this means nothing. Means that something like 30 to 50 Wii U's got sold.

Its definitly not a clearance sale like some believed. If it was i would be getting me a Wii U tomorrow. lol

You seem to be missing the fact that the retailer used the Wii U as a sacrificial lamb to get people into the store.  Did they lower the PS3 to 99e, no, because the PS3 will move at (or close to) full price.

That means "something".



chris_wing said:
Nem said:
chris_wing said:
Nem said:
bubblegamer said:


You have to go to that particular shop in the city mentioned in the ad. It's not nation wide. Op = Op means as long as supplies last.


Upon closer inspection, the sale was only today the 5th. The shop closed at 7pm (the sale lasted one sunday) wich was 3 hours ago, so this is hardly the bad news people want to pass it as.

Wish i had caught that sale though. This is meaningless upon the spectrum though. Means nothing.

No, it means something, not everything, but deffinetly not nothing.


It was a store's opening sale. Probably wasnt the only one. As i said, in the big spectrum this means nothing. Means that something like 30 to 50 Wii U's got sold.

Its definitly not a clearance sale like some believed. If it was i would be getting me a Wii U tomorrow. lol

You seem to be missing the fact that the retailer used the Wii U as a sacrificial lamb to get people into the store.  Did they lower the PS3 to 99e, no, because the PS3 will move at (or close to) full price.

That means "something".


Sacrificial lamb? Does that mean that they had the least to lose by discounting it?

You are beeing ridiculous. If there was a PS3 rebate, it wouldnt make the news cause Nintendo is the fun company to shout DOOM at.

There is no inventory to go through when its the opening of a new shop. Your insistance in trying to convince people that this is a bad sign for Nintendo is questionable at best. Again... this is nothing. This is just an opening sale, for one day. The Wii U was surely not the only item in discount, or do you think everyone went to the shop just for the Wii U?

End of the line, 30-50 Wii U's got sold. I would say that is more positives than negatives. This could have had the sponsorship of Nintendo BE aswell.

But i guess you dont want to listen to reason. Go on, keep shouting your doom's. I dont think its logic and common sense that will stop you now.



tbone51 said:
Lawlight said:
anonymunchy said:
IsawYoshi said:

Media Markt, which is Europe’s largest retailer of consumer electronics, is now selling off its Wii U stock for a mere 99 Euros in Belgium. Media Markt is a German chain of stores selling consumer electronics with numerous branches throughout Europe and Asia. The chain has joined Dick Smith in Australia which ditched of all their Wii U consoles and accessories at 50 percent off a few months ago.

 

http://mynintendonews.com/2014/01/05/europes-largest-retailer-of-consumer-electronics-selling-off-wii-u-stock-for-99-euros-in-belgium/

 

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This is only in Hasselt for only 1 day. Not every Media Markt store in Belgium. They are getting rid of their Nintendo Land Deluxe bundles, most likely to make way for new bundles this year.

While €99 is a great price, I don't think they expected this many people to show up.

You have to ask yourself  - why are they going for such a low price? It's because the WiiU is failing in Europe.

Okay Trolling again -_-


We all know you don't like him, but calling him a troll is the real trolling here.



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Lawlight said:
anonymunchy said:
IsawYoshi said:

Media Markt, which is Europe’s largest retailer of consumer electronics, is now selling off its Wii U stock for a mere 99 Euros in Belgium. Media Markt is a German chain of stores selling consumer electronics with numerous branches throughout Europe and Asia. The chain has joined Dick Smith in Australia which ditched of all their Wii U consoles and accessories at 50 percent off a few months ago.

 

http://mynintendonews.com/2014/01/05/europes-largest-retailer-of-consumer-electronics-selling-off-wii-u-stock-for-99-euros-in-belgium/

 

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This is only in Hasselt for only 1 day. Not every Media Markt store in Belgium. They are getting rid of their Nintendo Land Deluxe bundles, most likely to make way for new bundles this year.

While €99 is a great price, I don't think they expected this many people to show up.

You have to ask yourself  - why are they going for such a low price? It's because the WiiU is failing in Europe.

Hasselt is a Belgian city with a population of roughly 75.000 people. There was 1 store in this city that had the Nintendo Land Deluxe model on sale for €99 on 1 sunday. This is a clearance of old models in a single store.

You might find it interesting to look up the term Schadenfreude, just a thought.



Now if you can find a clearance $200 PS4 unit in the next two years I will permaban myself. It's a bad sign people.



Nem said:
chris_wing said:
Nem said:

It was a store's opening sale. Probably wasnt the only one. As i said, in the big spectrum this means nothing. Means that something like 30 to 50 Wii U's got sold.

Its definitly not a clearance sale like some believed. If it was i would be getting me a Wii U tomorrow. lol

You seem to be missing the fact that the retailer used the Wii U as a sacrificial lamb to get people into the store.  Did they lower the PS3 to 99e, no, because the PS3 will move at (or close to) full price.

That means "something".


Sacrificial lamb? Does that mean that they had the least to lose by discounting it?

You are beeing ridiculous. If there was a PS3 rebate, it wouldnt make the news cause Nintendo is the fun company to shout DOOM at.

There is no inventory to go through when its the opening of a new shop. Your insistance in trying to convince people that this is a bad sign for Nintendo is questionable at best. Again... this is nothing. This is just an opening sale, for one day. The Wii U was surely not the only item in discount, or do you think everyone went to the shop just for the Wii U?

End of the line, 30-50 Wii U's got sold. I would say that is more positives than negatives. This could have had the sponsorship of Nintendo BE aswell.

But i guess you dont want to listen to reason. Go on, keep shouting your doom's. I dont think its logic and common sense that will stop you now.

Right, where do you think the inventory came from for that store, straight from Nintendo? I think it's far more likely they were sourced from other stores in the chain that needed to clear floor space.  Yes, they did have the least to loose by discounting the Wii U when you realize that shelf space is money, & a product that doesn't move is costing them money everyday just buy sitting there, so yes, it is an attempt to stop the bleeding on that bundle and turn it into a positive.
I don't personally think Nintendo themselves would have anything to do with a promotion that under values the Wii U so extreamly, but that's just a guess.

I"m not saying this means other retailers are going to follow suit, never said that, I think it's kind of funny that you can't admit that this means anything at all, no matter how small that something may be.

As an example of pattern, here in Canada you could get the Wii U skylanders bundle for $199cdn (137.3 euros) for one day only, and that was after it sat at $220 (151.8 euros) for weeks and didn't sell out.  Now was that a different situation?  That retailer was clearing stock chain wide of a bundle, but maybe if this Belgium retailer had only 50 units of an outdated bundle chain wide they decided to send them all to one store for it's opening and just slash the price, effectivly doing the same thing as clearing stock chain wide for the bundle.

So what does this mean?

reggin_bolas said:
Now if you can find a clearance $200 PS4 unit in the next two years I will permaban myself. It's a bad sign people.

 

^this



bubblegamer said:
tbone51 said:
Lawlight said:
anonymunchy said:
IsawYoshi said:

Media Markt, which is Europe’s largest retailer of consumer electronics, is now selling off its Wii U stock for a mere 99 Euros in Belgium. Media Markt is a German chain of stores selling consumer electronics with numerous branches throughout Europe and Asia. The chain has joined Dick Smith in Australia which ditched of all their Wii U consoles and accessories at 50 percent off a few months ago.

 

http://mynintendonews.com/2014/01/05/europes-largest-retailer-of-consumer-electronics-selling-off-wii-u-stock-for-99-euros-in-belgium/

 

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This is only in Hasselt for only 1 day. Not every Media Markt store in Belgium. They are getting rid of their Nintendo Land Deluxe bundles, most likely to make way for new bundles this year.

While €99 is a great price, I don't think they expected this many people to show up.

You have to ask yourself  - why are they going for such a low price? It's because the WiiU is failing in Europe.

Okay Trolling again -_-


We all know you don't like him, but calling him a troll is the real trolling here.


me trolling? Nahhh... Him Yes. Look up nintendo threads with his post and you'd understand :)



If Dick Smith Aus did it then ill pick one up when they drop support in NZ

 

Edit: Just checked Website, They have already dropped support for WiiU, I missed out :(