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Nintendo multiplayer bundle spotted in the wild, saves you zero dollars
1:42 PM on 11.12.2008, Colette Bennett 5 comments

Nintendo multiplayer bundle spotted in the wild, saves you zero dollars photo
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The boxed controller set you see in the photo above, containing one Wiimote, one Nunchuk and the Wii Wheel, certainly snuck in the under the radar for this holiday season. Peer close and you'll see the ticket price is $74.99, which may seem like a deal if you don't know your stuff. Add up the individual prices of each of these controllers, and you'll figure that you'll be saving ... absolutely nothing! Wow!

CVG asked Nintendo if they had any plans to release this box set in the UK, and were told "there are no plans at the moment". Don't cry, Brits -- you can buy the separate items through some online retailers for a total of $65. You won't get the nifty box, but who needs more ultra-white Nintendo marketing in their homes anyway?


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chronoswing at 11/12/2008 15:13
Yah I saw this today at target, except target was sneaky and didn't put the price tag under it so I had no clue how much it was. Walked it over to a price scanner and it came up $75 I was like holy shit. Went and tallied them up individually and of course came out to be the same amount. Problem is people will more than likely pick it up thinking its going to save them money, get the register and it rings up $75 and they probably won't bother to go back to the isle do see if they are actually saving any money.
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DinnertimeNinja at 11/12/2008 20:17
Damn that's ridiculous.

I mean, the Wii-mote itself is a horrible ripoff considering the motion technology in it only costs about $2 for the big N. And with no analog stick and minimal buttons that thing can't be more than $10-$15 for them to produce and net $25-$30 a pop.

And $15 for a $1 hunk of plastic? Wow. I mean, AT LAUNCH Nintendo was making money on each console sold. Now, they must be making 3 times as much per console sold and there's ZERO price drops on ANY of the hardware.

I wish people would stop clamoring for this kind of abusive treament.
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Drach at 11/13/2008 02:57
I agree with DinnertimeNinja. People need to stop with this and be a little more thoughtful before dropping the $250 for a system that should be $150 by now. (with the First Law of Computers it was obsolete when it hit the shelves) I've always found it kind of obscene when a system that's been on the market for this long hasn't dropped in price, nor have they stepped up production to meet the high demand... In other words, they produce something that is in demand, they see the demand, yet do nothing to meet the demand, therefore demand goes up, price goes up, Nintendo gets tons of loot, consumers get hosed for a few hundred bucks. Great for Nintendo.. Horrible for the consumer.
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