Rumour: Sainsburys selling Wii for £99 and 360 from £99 on Friday

Twon · 2 October 2008 at 4:48PM

Taken from here

Which appears to be taken from this thread

"From tomorrow Sainsburys are doing Wiis for £149.99, 360 60 Gbs for £139.97 and Arcades for £99.97. Press doesn't start til Saturday, but offer definitely goes live tomorrow and runs for 10 days."

stuartmck · 2 October 2008 at 4:51PM

No ps3s? Shame as it's bound to appear on dds xmas wish list!

badmumof1 · 2 October 2008 at 4:54PM

doubt they will have them instock or if they do each store just 1 of each

Twon · 2 October 2008 at 4:56PM

Just called my local one... 'hadn't heard about the reduction'

But someone on the thread I linked to had been told the xbox360 Arcades would be £99 tomorrow morning.

I guess we'll find out tomorrow!

Twon

izzy_flint · 2 October 2008 at 5:00PM

badmumof1 wrote: »

doubt they will have them instock or if they do each store just 1 of each

AND

ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE

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tootiefrooties · 2 October 2008 at 5:25PM

Twon wrote: »

Taken from here

Which appears to be taken from this thread

"From tomorrow Sainsburys are doing Wiis for £99.97, 360 60 Gbs for £139.97 and Arcades for £99.97. Press doesn't start til Saturday, but offer definitely goes live tomorrow and runs for 10 days."

Probably quite likely, but for the very reason they will be reduced, don't buy them if you want the latest console or you have kids who will give you grief over "needing" the very latest thing. DH informs me that Microsoft are abandoning the 360 very soon in favour of a new console (as they did with previous XBox so early in its life) and that Wiis will be HD with much better graphics very soon as well - although games will be backwardly compatible so new releases can still be played on old version.

Great bargain though if you are a casual gamer

spaceman5 · 2 October 2008 at 5:31PM

can`t see this happening, maybe on the xbox 360 as they hav come down in price recently anyway, and they would only have to drop about £30 of the price, but if they are going to drop the wii down to £99 then that is nearly half price, as it said in one of the above posts sainsburys customer relations have said they hardly have any wii`s available as they keep selling out at full price, so i can`t see them doing this, its not as if no one is going to be wanting a wii in the run up to xmas, and they would need to have an awful lot of stock because they would look pretty stupid if every store only had one or two in stock for the whole 10 days, and the customers would never see them, as the staff would be in there first, Dave

cruella_de_vile · 2 October 2008 at 5:35PM

spaceman5 wrote: »

can`t see this happening, maybe on the xbox 360 as they hav come down in price recently anyway, and they would only have to drop about £30 of the price, but if they are going to drop the wii down to £99 then that is nearly half price, as it said in one of the above posts sainsburys customer relations have said they hardly have any wii`s available as they keep selling out at full price, so i can`t see them doing this, its not as if no one is going to be wanting a wii in the run up to xmas, and they would need to have an awful lot of stock because they would look pretty stupid if every store only had one or two in stock for the whole 10 days, and the customers would never see them, as the staff would be in there first, Dave

I'm quite inclined to agree with you, I just can't see them dropping the price when there is still so much demand for them and even more so in the run up to Christmas as you say, it just doesn't make sense...

I hope I'm proved wrong though as I will be on the market for another Wii for a Christmas present.

spaceman5 · 2 October 2008 at 5:40PM

cruella_de_vile wrote: »

I'm quite inclined to agree with you, I just can't see them dropping the price when there is still so much demand for them and even more so in the run up to Christmas as you say, it just doesn't make sense...

I hope I'm proved wrong though as I will be on the market for another Wii for a Christmas present.

like i say i can believe the xbox price being dropped, as it is a few yerars old now, and rumour has it microsoft are bringing out a new version at the end of next year, but as for the wii, i cant see it, it is only the second xmas since it was released, and if it is anything like the ds, it will be in short supply, we struggled to get a ds last xmas, 3 years after they was released, and people are definetly still after the wii, so does not make commercial sense for them to virtually halve the price, Dave.

bjpenn · 2 October 2008 at 5:57PM

The Wii will be £149.97 not £99

ShowMeTheMoney_3 · 2 October 2008 at 5:59PM

Yep here is the official line like has been said Wii £150 not £99:

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/31934/Sainsburys-to-slash-360-to-under-100

Rumour: Sainsburys selling Wii for £99 and 360 from £99 on Friday

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