No Value Label Coming For Nintendo Wii...

[Gikoku]

No Value Label Coming For Nintendo Wii...

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"We have no plans for a Wii budget label..."

Nintendo has told MCV that it has no plans to follow the lead of Sony and Microsoft by introducing a budget label on first-party Wii software.

Sony’s PlayStation Platinum and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Classics ranges have both significantly boosted revenues for Nintendo’s rival format holders – but the Japanese firm has decided that its Wii price proposition does not warrant a designated value label.

“We have no plans for a Wii budget label,” a Nintendo spokesperson told MCV. “Nintendo Wii software is performing very well at its current price points.

It’s important to note that Nintendo do not set prices. It is retailers that will ultimately set the prices of both hardware and software. And with brand new software titles available at estimated retail prices of between £19.99 and £34.99, we feel Wii represents great value over any current new competitor titles.”

This week, internet stories referencing ChartTrack statistics reported that the Wii is on course to hit one million UK sales in the next three weeks – and to eclipse total GameCube sales by October.

This isn't really surprising when you think about it. I mean, the Wii's default retail package is perfectly fine as is, aswell as it's current retail price. It doesn't really need any special retail packages of hard drives and stuff, since it's games don't require them.

 

[Dark Drakan]

Re: No Value Label Coming For Nintendo Wii...

This isn't really surprising when you think about it. I mean, the Wii's default retail package is perfectly fine as is, aswell as it's current retail price. It doesn't really need any special retail packages of hard drives and stuff, since it's games don't require them.

With some Wii games being like Mini Games (Golf/Bowling etc) they dont usually warrant a full price tag and would start at around £19.99 (which is usually price for budget games). It would be to much effort on their part to have to work out different prices for all their budget games. For instance a game like Zelda that starts at £34.99 might go to the budget price after a while and go down to £19.99 but what would happen to a game that started at £19.99 or one that started at £24.99? They would have to make the price drops fair for each one and that would be to difficult to work out.