Naum said: So now it's Nintendo fault that the pound is weaker?. If there's anyone we should blame it's the US, they started it all with theif foolish thinking they could loan huge amount of money and buy houses without paying their loans monthly

You blame the parent when a kid steals his dads gun and kills someone. Blame the system that lent money to people with no jobs, no house, no car, etc. Then sold the value of that lent money to investors overseas. THAT is what crashed, not just the US, but the GLOBAL economy. global, its realy bad ok, really bad.

Naum said: So now it's Nintendo fault that the pound is weaker?. If there's anyone we should blame it's the US, they started it all with theif foolish thinking they could loan huge amount of money and buy houses without paying their loans monthly

This financial crisis really can't be laid at the USA's feet alone. Yes, the US at the government, corporate and personal level borrowed insane amounts of money and lived way beyond their means. It's the rest of the world who loaned them this money, eagerly selling the US the rope to hang itself so that it could afford to buy billions of dollars worth of our exports.

We all got rich off this scheme, and now we're all going to pay for it. Count yourself lucky if your country doesn't go the way of Iceland.

I've got an American Wii but if Wii game prices are rising equal to the PS3 games, then Nintendo can stuff it. Now Wii games are about 10USD lower than comparing to PS3 games. PS3 games are justified due to higher developing costs but Wii games are simply "not". Especially not from a Nintendo that already spits out money by only blinking with their eyes.

Man i hate Nintendo they make loads of money and then they rise the price WTF?!

they became too arrogant, good tht sony are more friendly to their consumers

It's true, the US may be next.

The USD has lost 25% against the yen in the past two years. Since Nintendo seems to be balancing the Wii's UK price around a 30% drop in their earnings (40% drop in currency value, 10% increase in price), the greenback wouldn't have to drop much more against the yen to trigger a price hike from Nintendo.

I don't know why people accept price rises of everything else but not the Wii. If the price of cocoa increases, the price of chocolate increases. If you think a 10% hike is bad, spare a thought for the poor Zimbabweans.

Do people really expect Nintendo to sell at a loss? LOSS?? NINTENDO?????

Nintendo and America aren't to blame. Blame the idiots who borrowed too much money, the clowns that gave it them and the bastards that encouraged the clowns to give money to the idiots.

Guess the price cut rumors can be put to sleep now.

Funny to see the very same people who attacked Sony for having a high price defending a PRICE RISE of the Wii.

I can't remember the last time a console's price was raised.

If they raise the prices of their software and consoles, they could create a situation where the Wii is selling no better than the Gamecube. Part of the reason why the Wii and its games have been so popular is their price in comparison to what is out there.  However, if worldwide, they raise the price of the to $275.00 and the price of its games to $60.00, then they will really shoot themselves in the foot.  I can see the Wii weathering the storm of raising the console price to $275.00 because demand for the system has always been higher.  However, if they raise the price of their games to $60.00 that could cause them real difficulties because there have only been very few Wii games worth paying that amount of money for (SMG, SSBB, TP but certainly not Carnival Games and most of the party games) especially in comparison to what is on the HD machines.  Talk about looking for ways to kill your marketshare. 

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Actually I am not surprised. The difference in prices between the UK and mainland Europe is pretty big at the moment and they are likely looking to get it closer to each other again.