Europe gets EUR 50 Wii price cut
But won't affect UK price of £179.99.
The price of the Nintendo Wii has dropped to EUR 199 across Europe, leaving the UK the only region to not benefit from a price cut. Sniff.
As reported earlier in the week, the Wii will still retail around the GBP 179 price in the UK when a new Wii Sports Resort and MotionPlus bundle is introduced in October, despite Nintendo lowering the trade price for the console.
GamesIndustry.biz understands that retailers such as Amazon, Play.com, GAME and HMV will continue to sell the new bundle for around GBP 179.99, the same as the current offering.
Yesterday Nintendo announced significant price cuts for the US and Japan, the first time in almost three years since the console was first introduced.
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200 euros = £180..and we get Wii Sports Resort included while the rest of Europe doesn't (which can easily be sold on ebay for £35 if you don't want it).
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Well I've bought two, one for myself and another for my son and I don't regret either purchases. So now you know one person.
Regardless of conversion rates and the strength of the pound, just looking at the black and white facts that the US, Japan, and the rest of Europe are getting a price cut a lot of people are going to come to the conclusion that the UK's getting shafted as usual.
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@GingerNathan
A serious question. Do you actually use your Wii on anything like a regular basis?
I have all three consoles and, even when my intention is to play the Wii, I end up switching on either the PS3 or 360 instead.
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I have all three consoles and, even when my intention is to play the Wii, I end up switching on either the PS3 or 360 instead.
Your inability to press the correct button is not Nintendo's fault.
There are plenty of good games on the Wii. Although it is skewed towards shovelware and family fun, that does not mean it is the end of solo 'core' gaming. The PS2 did not end the world by being full of tat for kids, idiots, and families: and nor shall the Wii.
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I know about 5. Hope this helps.
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I'll stick with my 360. Its way more possible Ithink to buy a PS3 for me later on in the future for minor reasons than a Wii for no reasons :/
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0.917433 GBP
Ouch
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what were you thinking ? ,the exchange rate only applies to UK when it makes us pay more for stuff ( stuff = everything )
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Yes I think so, even if I am engrossed in a single player game on my 360 or PS3, at least once or twice a week it'll come on for a bit of family multi-player. Having said that these last couple of weeks I've been concentrating on Prime Trilogy, so my 360 hasn't been touched and my PS3 has only been on for films.
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My consoles are in different rooms: Wii is in family room and gets quite a lot of action with StooMonster Juniors they particularly like it on projector at 120-inchs; next-gen consoles in my office along with Le Corbusier chaise longue and dedicated Kuro; PC also in office, as is Mac but don't do gaming on that.
So, I am quite happy to play Wii with kids or friends (plus the odd SMG or RE4 or Metroid, etc) but play other consoles and PC on my own / over the internet.
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I thought the price of the Wii had gone up in the UK because of the weak pound?
It did, sort-of: Nintendo kept the RRP the same but increased the price to the retailer. A cynical person (i.e. me) might say that was so they could say "we didn't increase the price, the retailers did".
They dropped the retailer price back to the old one again recently.
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Edit: Oh and Super Mario World too of course. God, I love that game, the first one I got on my SNES back in 92... *sigh*
Edit: And Zelda Link to the Past. I still have a SNES but it's nice to reduce the amount of stuff under the TV.
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Well, I wasn't writing a personal add, looking to find people who enjoy their Wii (not a euphemism), but thanks anyway.
I don't deny that there are people out there who do enjoy playing there Wii regularly, I just wonder how large a proportion that is, compared with those that play it a few times, and then let it gather dust. Anecdotally it would appear small is all I'm saying.
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I agree, the Wii's like marmite, you either like it....or you think its massively wank!!
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The problem is, that until we Brits stop paying these people whatever money they ask for, then they're going to keep charging us whatever they fancy. Rip off Britain is partly our fault for being too willing to pay the rip off prices.
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If anyone wants to list a bunch of games I've missed out on for the 360 or PS3, I'll just direct their attention to the PC of mine on which I play that game, or at least that kind of game - and it's hooked up to my TV and played with a pad. And I'm not paying a premium for online. Or listening to a loud fan. Et cetera.
I'll get marked down, I know, but I just can't see a better alternative to what I'm doing. Or at least see why my alternative is wrong.
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I like Marmite! the wii however is massivley wank! yeah there may be some ok games on it but they could have been better on better hardware and no waggle sticks, couldn' t they........
Bit of a non-statement there m8, mangling of the tenses aside, every game ever made up until now and every game that will ever be made in the future "could have been better on better hardware and no waggle sticks."
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Instead I will admit that I'm foregoing a small list of games but the entry price that those games entails does not justify the outlay. I don't want to pay £250 plus £40 per game plus online fee if applicable when there will be a game for the PC which scores just as high and is clamouring for my attention. I can't play everything, and so will have to drop those games that require me to buy a console to play.
However, the PC doesn't have a pervasive equivalent to motion control, and so I'm still playing the Wii. I have in other threads stated that if the PS3 had the Wands from the get-go I'd have bought that, and as it is I'll be buying one once the Wand is out and supported games reach a critical mass, or it gets a 'killer-app'. But right now a few exclusives don't weigh up against the list of games out for the PC I haven't gone anywhere near yet due to time restraints (as in I don't play 24/7
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I think my point was a pretty simple one and easy enough for most people to understand.
Are you one of those people who will watch a James Bond movie and then pick it a part for not being very realistic....so sad
May i suggest the youth in asia? blud
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For me, i own a 360 and a wii. Halo 3 i burned through in a few nights, recently played through saints row 2 - which i loved.. But years after i bought the game I *STILL* turn on my wii in an attempt to finish mario galaxy... only 10 stars to go with luigi now..
The other game which has been getting a lot of love from me recently is metroid trilogy - which i'm being an anal player with, trying to get EVERYTHING scanned, etc.
I also go a lot of play out of punch out earlier this year, and i imagine one "boy and his blob", and nsmb2 will get a lot of play when they come out too.
So i REALLY dont get this bollocks people spout about the wii not having any good games.. It's getting just as much attention (if not more) than my 360.. But that's mainly because the games i have on it, arent the type which can be completed in a few hours..
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Think how much you could get for £179
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Natel?
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But won't affect UK price of £179.99."
because Ninty are wary of Activision running unchallenged as the 'total-unadulterated-Cunts' of the gaming world.
Fuck you Round Eye!!
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My parents have had one for a year now and still play it a couple times a week, only last week I was playing WSR with my 3yr old nephew (who is frighteningly good), yet a few hours later I can play against my parents on the same game and still have loads of fun.
The length of games is irrelevant in my opinion, most of my Wii games are biased towards high-score gaming, which for me usually means they last for years. That's what saddens me about this hardcore/core gamer nonsense, anyone who played games in the 80s an awful lot would probably appreciate more Wii games than they give it credit for.
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Last time I checked the exchange rate was around £1 = 1.08e, which makes 199 Euros come out to £185 or so. So the Wii is in fact still a fiver cheaper over here.
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Yeah, but you have to remember that anyone who describes themselves as a "hardcore gamer" or a "core gamer" in 2009 is almost certainly:
(a) 15 or younger, and
(b) a complete prick.
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Absolutely spot on. Consider yourself plussed.
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Few people that havent bought the machine at 250 euros will suddendly say "this is what I was expecting ,I save 50 euros !" and rush to buy the machine.It can decide some undecided people at best.
Most people I know with the machine doesnt use it at all or have just pirated it and use it for the lightgun games as a modern DUck Hunt machine ...
And sorry to burst some people bubble but the best versions of PES are still on the HD consoles.
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I have a Wii and a PC and both get a real lack of attention in the summer. In the summer I go out more and I like to enjoy the little daylight there is when you work full time and I love to party. At the end of the day I play games for some extra fun because gaming is part of a fun life!!
I agree GBP ROE makes imports for GB more expensive so no price cut here for a while. Unless GB has something else to sell interest rates will stay low and ROEs won't come back in our favour so we are going nowhere for a long time!! Cheers Gordon!
P.S. FLG closing fiesta at Pacha this week was awesome, hence my absence
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Horseshit. The best football game around is FIFA on the HD consoles. PES Wii is the second-best and is far, far superior to the joke of a game that passes for PES in HD
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PES Wii allows you to control the bloke with the ball and direct other members of your team accurately, allowing for true tactical play. Give it a few years and EA will have ripped the idea off and applied it to FIFA (they've already ripped it off and put it in the Madden games).
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Oh there is also Dead Space Extraction whichs add to the backstory of Dead Space canon, and is a reasonable good on rail shooter if you like that sort of game.
Still only a handful of game that you must have and Wii should be weighted on those 'must have' games alone. Too many garbage and kiddies/family cheap games cluttering up the game library and not enough great multi platform games that are gracing 360 and PS3 (and PC), ie Batman.
Nintendo will pay for that with their reputation being more and more assoicated with that kind of tosh.
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Could not agree more with this point, my PS3, 360 AND Wii have sat unloved for months now, because I got my arse in gear and built a shelf with my MD/MCD, Saturn, Snes on it, set up all the time! Now I can play proper decent games, and leave all that online wargame bollocks to my 14 year old!!!
Get down to a cold field on a Saturday morning, and you can buy at least four or so classic systems for the price many will spend on another update of FIFA! I bagged an N64, Acorn Electron, Atari 2600 Woody (6 switches), Gameboy Color and a load of games for £35 at the weekend - I would have got some nice Japanese Megadrive games for 50p each if I had been 30secs quicker!
Master System Wonderboy FTW
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The Wii is still a dirt cheap casual toy to most adults, same price as a netbook or ipod, cheaper than a smart phone or PSPGo.
If you dont like the below games, then buy an Xbox or PS3, it's your choice, leave the moaning for the brats who got the wrong xmas present.
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2 Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The 2006 95
3 World of Goo 2008 94
4 Super Smash Bros. Brawl 2008 93
5 Rock Band 2 2008 92
6 Metroid Prime Trilogy 2009 91
7 Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition 2007 91
8 Beatles: Rock Band, The 2009 91
9 Guitar Hero 5 2009 90
10 Okami 2008 90
11 Metroid Prime 3: Corruption 2007 90
12 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 2009 88
13 Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure 2007 87
14 Little King's Story 2009 87
15 Bomberman Blast 2008 86
16 Boom Blox Bash Party 2009 86
17 Punch-Out!! 2009 86
18 Guitar Hero World Tour 2008 86
19 Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock 2007 86
20 Tetris Party 2008 86
21 MaBoShi: The Three Shape Arcade 2008 85
22 Super Paper Mario 2007 85
23 Guitar Hero: Metallica 2009 85
24 Boom Blox 2008 85
25 Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 2009 84
26 You, Me, and the Cubes 2009 84
27 New Play Control! Pikmin 2 2009 84
28 Swords & Soldiers 2009 84
29 No More Heroes 2008 83
30 MLB Power Pros 2007 83
31 Mega Man 9 2008 83
32 WarioWare: Smooth Moves 2007 83
33 Bully: Scholarship Edition 2008 83
34 Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 2008 83
35 Call of Duty: World at War 2008 83
36 Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 5: 8-Bit is Enough 2008 83
37 NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits 2009 82
38 Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection 2008 82
39 Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 2: Strong Badia the Free 2008 82
40 Mario Kart Wii 2008 82
41 Art Style: ORBIENT 2008 82
42 Madden NFL 09 All-Play 2008 82
43 de Blob 2008 82
44 Dead Space Extraction 2009 81
45 Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 4: Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective 2008 81
46 Dawn of Discovery 2009 81
47 MadWorld 2009 81
48 EA Sports Active 2009 81
49 Madden NFL 07 2006 81
50 LostWinds 2008 81
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2 BioShock 2007 96
3 Orange Box, The 2007 96
4 Gears of War 2006 94
5 Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The 2006 94
6 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2007 94
7 Halo 3 2007 94
8 Braid 2008 93
9 Street Fighter IV 2009 93
10 Fallout 3 2008 93
11 Gears of War 2 2008 93
12 Guitar Hero II 2007 92
13 Rock Band 2007 92
14 Batman: Arkham Asylum 2009 92
15 Rock Band 2 2008 92
16 FIFA Soccer 10 2009 92
17 Mass Effect 2007 91
18 NHL 10 2009 91
19 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2006 90
20 Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned 2009 90
21 Portal: Still Alive 2008 90
22 Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 2008 90
23 Forza Motorsport 2 2007 90
24 Call of Duty 2 2005 89
25 Rez HD 2008 89
26 Castlevania: Symphony of the Night 2007 89
27 Left 4 Dead 2008 89
28 Fable II 2008 89
29 Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box 2009 89
30 Burnout Revenge 2006 89
31 Beatles: Rock Band, The 2009 89
32 Dead Space 2008 89
33 Peggle 2009 89
34 Virtua Fighter 5 2007 89
35 Burnout Paradise 2008 88
36 Shadow Complex 2009 88
37 NHL 09 2008 88
38 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2006 88
39 Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix 2008 88
40 Project Gotham Racing 3 2005 88
41 Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, The 2009 88
42 BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger 2009 88
43 FIFA Soccer 09 2008 87
44 Ikaruga 2008 87
45 Fight Night Round 4 2009 87
46 DiRT 2 2009 87
47 Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords 2007 87
48 GRID 2008 87
49 Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles, The 2007 86
50 Trials HD 2009 86
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2 LittleBigPlanet 2008 95
3 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2007 94
4 BioShock 2008 94
5 Street Fighter IV 2009 94
6 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots 2008 94
7 Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The 2007 93
8 FIFA Soccer 10 2009 92
9 Rock Band 2007 92
10 Rock Band 2 2008 91
11 Killzone 2 2009 91
12 NHL 10 2009 91
13 Batman: Arkham Asylum 2009 91
14 Fallout 3 2008 90
15 MLB 09: The Show 2009 90
16 WipEout HD Fury 2009 89
17 Beatles: Rock Band, The 2009 89
18 Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction 2007 89
19 Orange Box, The 2007 89
20 BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger 2009 89
21 Dead Space 2008 88
22 Demon's Souls 2009 88
23 NHL 09 2008 88
24 Uncharted: Drake's Fortune 2007 88
25 Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2007 88
26 Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 2009 88
27 Fight Night Round 4 2009 88
28 Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box 2009 88
29 Burnout Paradise 2008 87
30 GRID 2008 87
31 Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix 2008 87
32 FIFA Soccer 09 2008 87
33 Guitar Hero 5 2009 87
34 Bionic Commando Rearmed 2008 87
35 WipEout HD 2008 87
36 Resistance 2 2008 87
37 DiRT 2 2009 87
38 Flower 2009 87
39 Unreal Tournament 3 2007 86
40 Valkyria Chronicles 2008 86
41 Resistance: Fall of Man 2006 86
42 Guitar Hero: Metallica 2009 86
43 Shatter 2009 86
44 Resident Evil 5 2009 86
45 Comet Crash 2009 86
46 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2007 86
47 NHL 08 2007 86
48 Madden NFL 10 2009 85
49 Madden NFL 09 2008 85
50 MLB 08: The Show 2008 85