Nintendo Wii U

[Not Thread Owner]

Yeah.

How are games priced on the shop? Is this a decent deal?

£50 each, so £85 for both. Not a great deal.

[geldra]

Yeah, forgot about the stupidly high eshop price for full games. Would be a decent ish deal if they brought them down to £39.99 i guess.

[Massive Invisible Dog]

Might be cheaper to buy a download code from Game.

[squirtle]

That's rubbish. It should just be a code in Pikmin 3 that allows you to get it.

[Massive Invisible Dog]

Pikmin is listed as £39.99 on the eShop.

[DC Lemon]

When he started talking about his dog during Animal Crossing, it got me thinking about an amazing crossover. Animal Crossing + Nintendogs. Getting to walk your dog along the beach and shit on your neighbours' gardens. Apart from your neighbours currently being anthropomorphic characters I can't see anything but gaming perfection from this potential marriage.

[Not Thread Owner]

Pikmin is listed as £39.99 on the eShop.

£68 then. Still not really a bargain. Even if you can get a code from Game for £35 that's still £63.

[geldra]

What's the deal with Earthbound then? I understand it is quite a legendary/mythical title, but why?

[Not Thread Owner]

Because it's mental.

In that video you fight a taxi, Final Fantasy style.

One of the characters is called Poo.

What more do you want?

[Massive Invisible Dog]

£68 then. Still not really a bargain. Even if you can get a code from Game for £35 that's still £63.

Not a bargain, but I'd already decided to just buy the eShop version of first party games from now on so I'm not complaining about getting it for the same price as the retail version. Stupid to have to rely on a special offer for that to happen, though.

[geldra]

My interest was piqued with the character called Poo I must say.

[Super Craig]

Buying those two games at launch would have cost you £99.98. A saving of around a third is a bargain.

[Massive Invisible Dog]

No it wouldn't. You can buy them both online for less than £35. Most likely they'll both cost £39.99 on the eShop.

[Not Thread Owner]

Buying those two games at launch would have cost you £99.98. A saving of around a third is a bargain.

A sixth. It's only a third of one of the games - not both.

[squirtle]

I'm getting Pikmin 3 for £26 through Flubit. How is the e-shop in any way a bargain?

And Wonderful 101 is £32.86 at Shopto. so, £59 for the pair of them.

[Shimmyhill]

As I remember you name the characters in earthbound and even enter your fave food!

God I loved that game back in the day, ESP with some err herbal tea!

[Super Craig]

No it wouldn't. You can buy them both online for less than £35. Most likely they'll both cost £39.99 on the eShop.

I'm talking about the eShop price.

A sixth. It's only a third of one of the games - not both.

£100 for both versus £63-68.

[Curtis]

Earthbound is so charming. Love it.

[Massive Invisible Dog]

I'm talking about the eShop price.

£100 for both versus £63-68.

Pikmin will be £39.99. W101 will most likely cost the same. Even if it was £49.99 each then it'd be £85 since you're only getting 30% off of W101.

[Larsen B]

Don't forget the Premium discount thing.

8% "off" so more like £63 but still not as good as retail. It's a nice initiative to anyone who is going 100% digital (small hard drive size notwithstanding).

[Epcotman]

I've led such a good and selfless life that someone should buy me a Wii U. Thank you!

[Not Thread Owner]

Good lord Earthbound is awesome. Never played it before.

I know to some it's probably doing it s disservice, but it really reminds me of Contact.

[Professor Puzzles]

Poo on my Wii! Poo on my Wii!

(I am 33 years old)

[Harmunt]

Tempted to dip my toe into the waters of Nintendo as the WiiU is now £199 on Amazon for the black 32GB with Nintendoland.

My only concern is the probability of an updated pack later in the year with the improved Gamepad and cheaper price...

Decisions, decisions...

[dataDave]

Do we have a list of NNIDs some where?

[Super Craig]

Tempted to dip my toe into the waters of Nintendo as the WiiU is now £199 on Amazon for the black 32GB with Nintendoland.

My only concern is the probability of an updated pack later in the year with the improved Gamepad and cheaper price...

Decisions, decisions...

If there's an official price reduction then I don't see it going below £199.

And what improved GamePad?

[kwakpriest]

Do we have a list of NNIDs some where?

In deKay's sig.

[JPickford]

Tempted to dip my toe into the waters of Nintendo as the WiiU is now £199 on Amazon for the black 32GB with Nintendoland.

My only concern is the probability of an updated pack later in the year with the improved Gamepad and cheaper price...

Decisions, decisions...

I doubt they will change the gamepad it's ace. They might upgrade the battery & storage in the main console but those are things that can be sorted yourself (replacement battery / external storage).

[dataDave]

In deKay's sig.

Thanks, mate. My observational skills aren't what they used to be.

[Droo]

Does anyone else think that spotpass would be a lot better if it was a smartphone app, associated with whatever games you owned?