UK retailer HMV slashes Wii U Premium to £199
Zombi U bundle sees £139 lopped off price
Beleaguered UK entertainment chain HMV has slashed the price of the 32GB Premium Wii U bundle with a copy of Ubisoft's Zombi U to just £199 ($300).
The move highlights the tribulations of a shrinking High Street business and the slow sales of Nintendo's latest home console.
A HMV spokesperson confirmed the deal to sister site Eurogamer.net today.
Amazon, supermarket Asda, GameStop and online retailer ShopTo are all selling the Premium console for £249.99 in the UK, knocking £50 off the standard price.
HMV is currently in the process of closing multiple stores across the UK.
Nintendo's Wii U console has launched into an environment where support for physical hardware has shrunk dramatically. New software for the game has been slow to release, with Wii U games rarely selling significantly to bother the charts.
I think this is actually a lot closer to the 'sweet spot' and I'll be interested to see how much of an effect retailer price cuts have on the sales. Bearing in mind, this is all during a real software drought...
Again : "support for physical hardware has shrunk dramatically", that's not true, the digital market keeps growing but the physical support hasn't dramatically shrunk...games are still selling millions physically. Not likje 10 years ago, but that's pretty obvious