Wii price cut this month… April 11, 2008
According to French site Jeux-France, the pending arrival of Mario Kart Wii could be accompanied by a 50 Euro price cut for the console.
Nintendo Europe is denying it, but rumors of a Wii price cut to coincide with the launch of Mario Kart Wii have surfaced on the Net this week anyway.
Jeux-France was first to break the news that a new bundle containing Mario Kat Wii and the console would launch alongside the game this Friday.
The price? About 199 Euros, roughly 50 Euro less than what the Wii Sports bundle retails for in Europe today. The Wii Sports bundle, in turn, would be reduced to 159 Euro.
Nintendo of Europe has told GamesIndustry.biz that reports of an impending Wii price cut are “rumor and speculation.”
Given the insane sales of the Wii console to date, a price cut at this point in time wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense, given the fact that supply constraints still plague the console. Even so, the one-two punch of Mario Kart and Wii Fit might be too much of an opportunity for Nintendo to resist.
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This wouldn’t even make sense. I’m not a business-man, but I’m pretty sure dropping a product’s price would be to sell more of that product. They are already selling every Wii they put out before they even get to the shelves. I completely agree with this quote from the above post:
“Given the insane sales of the Wii console to date, a price cut at this point in time wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense, given the fact that supply constraints still plague the console.”
I’m pretty sure this is just another false rumor…
Yeah, I have tons of buddies wanting a Wii and none of them can find one around my neck of the woods either.
Wii Fit bundles.