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

JASYMORR

skibster wrote: »

Were there several in stock? I'm just curious if stores are putting out only one or two.

Yes there was several in stock I was in first thing this morning as I spotted the reduction on xbox forums last night and although none are on display I asked customer services. Couple of hours ago there was at least 5 arcade packs left in Holywood Exchange, Belfast for anyone locally interested. Go get them at that price its a great buy

ZARA

:j sainsbury at solihull marshall lake only have 2 left just rang the woman said they are going fast! off to get one now, wii sports included, lots of fun tonight!

bluenitsuj

Just got one from Sainsbury's eastbourne, £149.99. I phoned Head office first to check offer and they said that all stores had none left. I then phoned my local eastbourne store who said they had a few in but you need to ask at the service desk.

ted_ted

Just got the last wii in Sainsbury Winnersh/Reading for that price. :T

carolinesugar

I'm confused - the start of this thread says wii's for £99?? then half way through goes to £149? How much are they selling them for?

JASYMORR

carolinesugar wrote: »

I'm confused - the start of this thread says wii's for £99?? then half way through goes to £149? How much are they selling them for?

Its just the Xbox 360 arcade pack that is £99, the other Xbox model & wii's are the higher prices

tootiefrooties

Sorry if anyone has noticed this already, but thought i would post just in case - the sainsbury's price cuts on consoles is not permanent, and they will only reduced until 12th october - that's just over a week so I expect they will be in massive demand!

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/a131720/sainsburys-slashes-hardware-prices.html

samobi

Does it include the xbox elite doesn anyone know???

Zoetoes

I've just phoned my local Sainsburys and got the £99.97 Xbox put away until tonight.

Is this good enough or is it worth paying the extra for the other one?

Idiophreak

zoeleigh wrote: »

I've just phoned my local Sainsburys and got the £99.97 Xbox put away until tonight.

Is this good enough or is it worth paying the extra for the other one?

It's good enough, but not ideal for most people - the arcade doesn't come with a hard disk. there are a couple of things that require a hdd (mainly backward compatability for xbox titles) and also you may wish to download stuff - updates, extra content, downloadable games, music, movies etc etc etc - having not much space (I believe the arcade comes with a 512mb memory card iirc) may become annoying if you get into any of these things.

HDD wise you have some options - the "pro" console (currently £140) has a 60gb hard drive, or the elite has 120gb. I play quite a few games and have had the original "premium" console for a couple of years - with a 20gb drive and am not too close to running out of space - so I'd have thought the 60gb is plenty for most people.

If you chose not to buy one with a HDD now you can always add it later - but buying it on its own will cost more than getting it with the console. I guess you could try ebay and the like to try and get it cheaper, though.

Finally, I think you get extra stuff with the pro, you always used to...off the top of my head I think it's pretty much just a headset these days...

I guess what I'm saying, then, is that it's not the end of the world either way - but if you can afford the extra bit of cash for the pro, it will probably be money well spent.