[GI] Consumers to be hit by Wii price rise

The pound's a joke nowadays, even with other economies getting hit hard.

The Steam $=£ pricing strategy actually isn't too far from the truth anymore (instead of previously being a massive ripoff).

I read that a lot of imported electronics were looking at price rises, particularly Sony products, but i've not actually witnessed any change.

Could be a good time to sell my Wii on ebay..

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How so? Can you provide some factual and valid points to backup your statement? Nintendo Wii is the most innovative video game console since their invention of the analog stick. Wii is used in hospitals, gyms, and a variety of other institutions.

You easily call out fail maybe because you couldn't buy one, LoL.

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Do you have to be rude every chance you get?

I think the Wii fails as well. It has a really great idea but I don't feel they are really taking advantage of it like they could be. I'm sure most people here would agree that the Wii really needs to get out some better games that take advantage of it's design. So far the best game released for it comes with the system.

Wii Fit wasn't even really turned into a game. Somewhere along the line they forgot it was suppose to be fun and not feel like a workout dvd.

To raise the price on it this late in the game is really going to hurt it sells. Had the Wii have been 300 it would have sold less. Something about the price of 250 makes it a little easier to shallow. Had it have been 300 I wouldn't have brought one for my nieces.

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Actually, Optical is right. That 'fail' post is in itself a fail. The Wii is the most successful gaming console in history, and its fail? Thats like saying electricity is fail.

I own a Wii, and a 360, and despite not using the Wii very often, its definitly an interesting console with lots of perks. Whether or not it could be better is a stupid quesiton.. anything in this world could be better, I dont care what anyone tries to say.

Just because someone dislikes the Wii for whatever reason, does not justify it as 'fail'. It is almost half the price of PS3, and sales of Wii pwn both microsoft and sony combined. So yeah.. its fail.

As far as really going to hurt sales? I doubt it. Its not like its a $50 increase, nor is it even in Continental America yet.

With regards to Wii Fit. Thats exactly what its designed to be.. A workout, hence the name.. whats the problem here?

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Second that!

If you don't like it, that's fine. But don't go bashing it because many do like it, and the sales statistics shows it.

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that's right, i couldn't buy one because my money has to spent elsewhere on more important things. Sure its innovative but its not doing what its meant to do, kick a$$ and so far every game it has is a joke and to be honest its only cool because its motion sensor. nothing amazing really..

i just feel the only reason people are buying it is because of the whole motion sensor idea, which i say is cool but it honestly could be doing so much better meaning you get what you pay for.
it might take a another year in my opinion until it truly meets its full potential.

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my point exactly. I think the Design is great but they really need to use its full potential then it would be a great system.

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Or it's his opinion and he doesn't need to explain himself to you. LoL.

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This is true for like 75% of the people I know. Buying a Wii makes you a part on the in crowd. Sure, I would love to be on the receiving end of the profit. I'm certain every gaming system wished they had thought of it first.

It still doesn't change that fact that I think they should do more with it. I am not bashing the Wii as a system. I'm bashing the game designers. Look at their ideas for dead rising. Or look at the fact that often commercials show the 360 version of the game during wii commercials. I just wish more good developers would back nintendo and actually push out some good games for their system that takes full advantage of the wii motion.

My mom ran out a brought kung fu panda for her wii. She loved the game on my PS3 so much that she just had to have it. I don't really understand why they had to take so many things out of that game when porting it for the Wii. They even removed the custom that gave Po the special moves.

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Two corrections:

The PS2 is the most successful console in history. It's sold somewhere around 125M worldwide.

And the PS3 and 360 have around 2 million more combined sales on the Wii.