Nintendo WII pre order only £180

DjSatansfury

I'd take what NoA say over NoE. NoE have displayed the fact their an incompetent bunch of numpties time and time again.

The Japanese price aint bad, if you just want to get your own games, and not be stuck with "Wii Sports" (lol)

joshtbh

Wii sports will be ace!

JCL

Get the Wii and the Xbox 360 for same price as PS3 and of course you can get the 360 right now. Can't see why anyone would wait for the PS3.

cicobuff

JCL wrote:

Get the Wii and the Xbox 360 for same price as PS3 and of course you can get the 360 right now. Can't see why anyone would wait for the PS3.

Or wait a short while if you can, with the Wii UK retail being an RRP of £179 & the Xbox 360 Core being £199, I honestly think that we will be having a Xbox 360 Core price drop to £179 shortly to compete, followed by a 360 premium pack price drop.

Let the war commence, then by the time the PS3 european launch is out in March, I think Sony are really going to struggle unless manufacturing costs have gone down considerably and the RRP is considerably less.

I own all current gen consoles, this time round I really do fear the worst for Sony, they just have everything wrong, price, media stability, advertising.

wibbleboy

martinmarv wrote:

There is still no concrete answer on how region free it will be - Nintendo of America says it will be, while Nintendo UK have said it won't (but Nintendo UK said there would be no DS Lite just before it was announced).

The original Nintendo press release stated that the console wouldn't be region locked, nor would first party titles though second party titles would have the option, effectively putting the decision to region protect into the hand of the developers. However, Nintendo Europe will fight tooth and nail to get the European consoles region locked, since they would go out of business overnight without stopping people from importing. They usually try to justify the inflated prices of Euro games on the cost of translating titles to the wide range of Euro languages. This simply doesn't hold much water when the DS sells bucket loads in Europe despite being region-free.

Babbler

The play price does include the sports games by the way, so not that bad a price!

wibbleboy

Babbler wrote:

The play price does include the sports games by the way, so not that bad a price!

Not a bad price, but not a good price either. It's just the offical 'current estimated' retail price.

biglugs

Who else would you blame then, if not the companies that have created this 'standard market practice'?

I would blame the Department of Trade & Industry, the Competition Commission, the Office of Fair Trading and the European Union - all of which could probably take action if they wished - in particular the Competition Commission has the powers to take action if they thought a deliberate anti-competitive practice was taking place.

packard_2

why is this thread in grabit? - all this thread is saying is what is in the media and on nintendos website

http://www.nintendo-europe.com/NOE/en/GB/news/article.do?elementId=hekfGZ16IZl9QD4HthPCa1jOA-0Dadvo

Can this thread be moved please? thanks

mug51

i say for the ps3, no one in the uk buy it, and see how far the price drops.