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Wii U Priced At £199.99 At Amazon UK, Coming July 14th 2012

According to well known online retailer Amazon UK, the Wii U will cost £199.99 and will be coming on July 14th.

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allyc4t4368d ago

I highly doubt it. If it were coming out this early, Nintendo would have announced a price and release date last week at E3.

avengers19784368d ago

after seeing this article I went and searched amazon, and could not find the wii u console for pre-order, a price for it, or a release date.... Though I did notice that a few of the games were priced at 99.99(smash brothers u) was one of them... Did anyone else see this? Is this the real price of the games, that would be crazy.

gaffyh4368d ago

Yeah, it's not going to be released on July 14th, it's too early and Nintendo would have announced the date at E3 if it was that early. Also, price is too low, £249 might be plausible, but £199 is TOO cheap.

legend9114367d ago

Those are placeholders.

live2play4368d ago

nintendo said they would not announce price at e3 way before

like they did with the 3ds they waited to see the poeples reacton to the wiiu then set the price

judging y the loud reactions 3ds got they priced it 250

now by the reactions wiiu got i bet it would be that low

SPAM-FRITTER-1234368d ago

how is this doubtful.

PRE-ORDER IT and £199 is what you will pay.

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Y_51504368d ago

That'll make me go nuts! NEXT MONTH!?

Lior4368d ago

Why can't people see its a marketing heist by amazon to get more people to pre order

GuyManDude4368d ago

While you're probably right, this is actually pretty big news. Not the release date, but the price. If Amazon UK is like the US version, they have to honor the price that you pre-order for. As such, people can get a WiiU for 199 pounds (or about $300 US).

I would imagine that they would only do this if they knew the price was going to be 199 pounds. Otherwise they'd lose a ton of money on this.

sourav934368d ago

Yeah, on Amazon UK you only pay the price you preordered for. Too bad the listing is no longer available.

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Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

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Profchaos9d ago

Great news it shows that Nintendo intends to continue developing ports of AAA games to its next gen platform

H98d ago

Buying studios from embracer now is a great deal, they must be dirt cheap at this point, Nintendo is a opportunist, they wait until someone fall so they get their best deal

OtterX8d ago

That is some serious brain gymnastics you have going on there. 🤔

H98d ago

I didn't do any gymnastics I can assure you, honestly I don't know why you think that, not hating I seriously don't see why you think that

ZeekQuattro8d ago

Yeah I don't know where that came from. It's rare for Nintendo to flat out aquire studios. Guess they were trying to be edgy but why flex on this studio. 🤣

Kneetos7d ago

At least they are safer from layoffs with Nintendo then any other company

banger888d ago

I hope someone buys Piranha Bytes, their future isn't looking good right now. I love their RPGs, they're janky as f***, but they have heart and soul.

Relientk778d ago

Nintendo saw the Mortal Kombat 1 Switch port and were like, "Yeah, these guys are worth acquiring."

You can't make this crap up lol

Profchaos8d ago

Mortal Kombat 1 was never going to port well I'm sure they told wb it wasn't going to work but wb wants that sweet sweet 140 million install base

In the end wb approved the project cleared the milestones and allowed the product to release

SonOfOsiris8d ago

Yeah this guys ported MK11 which is great, Hogwarts Legacy which is great, and MK1 is now ok, play it every day

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Game Developers Have Begun Confirming Nintendo Switch 2 Support

Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.

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How Many More Victims, Like Garry's Mod, Will Nintendo's Hurtful Crusade Create?

Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."

RiseNShine25d ago (Edited 25d ago )

The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.

gold_drake25d ago (Edited 25d ago )

i cam guarantee you, that their exclusives alone is what drives switch sales. they sell in the 10s of millions of copies.

nintendo created their franchises to be sort of nostalgia driven, exclusive only on nintendo.

people will always buy the pkmn games as they always bring in new younger fans amd is family friendly

mario kart, the same thing, mario games in general.

zelda games are system sellers. animal crossing for the casual gamers.

nintendo doesnt need third vame devs essentially. they made sure with the switch and the limitations that they looked more to pc ps and xbox.

its sad, but nintendo is more than fine with what they're doing. they positioned themselves to appeal to the more casual gamers.

but to your point, im not sure why they're doing this rly.

Inverno25d ago

Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.