Nintendo Wii price plummets below £100 The price of the Nintendo Wii plunged today, with some retailers pushing the price of a bundle under the £100 mark. With Nintendo's next console sure to hit shelves in 2012, the price-cut was inevitable. It was reported earlier this month that from 20 May, new bundles would be available and £50 would be slashed from the …
it's definitely worth it. It's now less than a tank of petrol!
The games are good fun, the controllers can be bluetoothed to your PC (with a bit of faffing about, anyway), and- again- it's relatively cheap. Plus it's got a web browser and WiFi so if you don't want to fire up your PC to, say, check your email you can do it right on your TV.
don't, just don't - it looks awful. The reason I bought a PS3 (yes, yes, I know) was to actually make use of the HDTV I had, the wii looked like I was trying to use a Spectrum 48K on a cinema screen.
Hopefully the next one will be nicely HD (I think I saw it in the spec somewhere) and backwards compatible. Here's hoping...
gathering dust. Wii was a throwaway gimmick purchase that gets wheeled out at Xmas and then sits gathering dust for the rest of the year. It's supporting software sucked REALLY badly outside 1st party titles.
I wouldn't waste £49 on one, let alone £99.
It's time the media woke up to this.
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