Wii Bundles Make Reggie Go: "Ragh!"
One of the things I've come to terms with online purchases are console bundles. Everyone has seen them, everyone hates them and lots of people cave and buy them. These overpriced masses of first generation titles are rarely anything you want, but when you simply cannot find the console you want, sometimes this is the route that people are forced to take. This is especially common during the holiday and launch seasons.
Having come to terms with this, I just buy my consoles in person. Now, just because I avoid them doesn't mean it doesn't steam other people. Good ole Reggie Fils-Aime of Nintendo voiced some of his opinions, and how he thinks it is negatively affecting their product.
We think it masks some of the price advantage we have versus our competition and, frankly, the consumer should decide what they want
Well said Reggie! No one wants to see online stores use this as a method of artificially inflating the price of a system.
We don't have to remind retailers of the strength we have right now. We are simply making an observation and that reinforces our point quite nicely with retailers
... and then there were "threats". Regardless on Reggie's stance, I doubt that this will change. Gamestop will cease the bundling the second sales are saturated, same goes for Wal-Mart. In he mean time, lets all just enjoy the fact that Wii sales are continuing to do so well. One game system (at least) per home I say!
Nintendo warns retail against unofficial Wii bundles [GamesIndustry.biz]
Asterick
Posted to Video Games on 18 December 2007
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