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| Wii price drop by Adam |  | | Wii News: How does $100 off sound to you? | | [View Article] |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:29 am Post subject: |
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A quater of the price cut. They can afford it, but hot damn thats pretty good.
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One wonders what prompted this? Let the hardware revision speculation begin.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:36 am Post subject: |
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Dammit...... Almost makes me want to get one again. Thats pretty friggin good.
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| tbenton wrote: | | One wonders what prompted this? Let the hardware revision speculation begin. |
Sales have probably slowed, since ~8% of the population has bought one. Now they've moved down to the next bracket of people who couldn't afford one while still making a profit.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:41 am Post subject: |
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About bloody time. But $250 would have been acceptable. Especially considering an X360 Arcade is $300.
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should've been done the second the black wii came out imo, but i guess nintendo didn't want to lose the extra profit from those who were willing to pay the higher price
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| Shadow Wave wrote: | | I wonder what MS will do to counter this. I they still want to maintain their 'best, cheapest console' motto |
Knock $50 off, or not give a shit and wait until the slim revision is announced at E3.
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Have they dropped the price worldwide? Or just here in Australia? Speculating about new hardware is a bit tenuous if they have only dropped the price here.
I think grim-one is more likely to be right. Using Amazon for prices and xe for conversion, in the US the prices is 200 USD (218 AUD) and in the UK the price is 160 GBP (266 AUD). They are probably using the stronger AUD and low manufacturing price to drop the price to stimulate sales. The question is why? Slowing sales seems likely. If we had official sales numbers, it would be easy to confirm or deny this.
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| bowie wrote: | | Have they dropped the price worldwide? Or just here in Australia? Speculating about new hardware is a bit tenuous if they have only dropped the price here. |
Not recently, but the black Wii bundle (with Sports Resort and M+) was recently announced for the US.
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I work at EB and I can definitely say, in EB's at least, Wii sales have been slowing quite dramatically for the last year or so.
So yeah, I'd say that'd be the reason for the drop, not a new console.
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Might get a used one at a decent . There's enough good games now where I want to buy one. Although I want the PS3 more
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If I can get a pre-owned one for $150 I'm sold. The Last Story and Dead Space Extraction is calling.
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Work (CC Prahran) had them at 160 for a little while, when we had about 9 (this was just before EB were doing their 200 buck trade ins... damn it), now we only have two and they're at 199. Could probably haggle it down though.
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I think the US dollar has been comparable to the AU dollar since August 2008. It took them that long to balance out the price?
Still, good timing if you're wanting Monster Hunter 3, which releases tomorrow.
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I think I'll still wait for a Metroid Other M bundle. No other game has me quite enthralled enough, but my defences are weakening.
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"Hey everyone, we dropped the price of the Wii!"
"But we all already have one..."
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... if only you could put the $100 you saved into more ram or something. Because the visuals... sure... are... pants.
and the $40 dollar component cables.. :/
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| THEMAN wrote: | | and the $40 dollar component cables.. :/ |
You're mad if you buy $40 component cables. The cheapo $10, sometimes less, ones you can find provide equally good signal quality.
Do you not know the Nintendo tax!
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| waz79 wrote: | I think the US dollar has been comparable to the AU dollar since August 2008. It took them that long to balance out the price?
Still, good timing if you're wanting Monster Hunter 3, which releases tomorrow. |
Where do you gather that from? I was in the US last year and transferring my AU over to US was depressing see how much I got for how much I paid. 
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A $100 price drop has increased by interest level in buying a Wii by 500%, therefore it's still 0.
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| EatChildren wrote: | | THEMAN wrote: | | and the $40 dollar component cables.. :/ |
You're mad if you buy $40 component cables. The cheapo $10, sometimes less, ones you can find provide equally good signal quality.
Do you not know the Nintendo tax! |
Works just like a charm, why pay full price for cables?!?
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| EatChildren wrote: | | THEMAN wrote: | | and the $40 dollar component cables.. :/ |
You're mad if you buy $40 component cables. The cheapo $10, sometimes less, ones you can find provide equally good signal quality.
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You're mad if you pay even $10 for component cables. Mine cost me $6 from Dealextreme and work perfectly.
| Smurf80 wrote: | | Where do you gather that from? I was in the US last year and transferring my AU over to US was depressing see how much I got for how much I paid. icon_sad.gif |
The aussie dollar is back up to about $US .9 after dropping back down to about 70 or 80 something cents last year.
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hmmm, $300 sure is tempting, i'll have to put some cash aside for when one of the majors puts a wii in their catalogue as a decent bundle
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