Nintendo games/consoles bargain alert thread

accap1f8

Great arguments guys. Fair points well made. So does anyone have a Wii U for sale before I buy that one in Smyths this evening?

Allyall

The only differences between the White (basic) and Black (Premium) Consoles are:

White has no
Cradle/Dock for sitting and charging the Gamepad - Not required and can probably be found for under €5 if you look around.

The Wii U sensor bar - Not required and has been available for less then €2.

White Wii U has 8GB storage instead of 32GB storage in the black.

Everyone that has the black, has still said that they needed an external hard drive at some point. So really, there's not a lot of difference there, as you will need an external drive anyway.

readyletsgo

accap1f8 wrote: »

Great arguments guys. Fair points well made. So does anyone have a Wii U for sale before I buy that one in Smyths this evening?

Well you're not getting mine! Lol

Few games I recommend you pick up over the next few months are:

Lego City, actually all the Lego games, they are awesome
Mario/Luigi U and 3D World
MK8 and all the DLC
Super Smash Bros
Pikmin 3 is a must!
YWW
Splatoon
ZombiU
Batman Arkham games if you haven't played them yet
Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze
Zelda WWHD
Scribblenauts Unlimited
Rayman Legends, this game was MADE for the WiiU
Hyrule Warriors
Sonic all stars racing transformed is a must, up there with MK8
Ressy Evil Revelations if you haven't played it on 3ds already
Bayonetta 1 & 2
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
Transformers Prime it's an exclusive too
The wonderful 101
Tekken Tag Tournament 2
NFS Most Wanted
Ninjas Gaiden 3 Razors Edge
Draksiders 2, such an awesome 'zelda' clone, I need to play it again.

Some of those will be much cheaper new now.

Few upcoming games coming in the next 6 or so months to keep an eye out for:

Legend of Kay Anniversary
Devils Third
Super Mario Maker
Mighty No 9
Star Fox Zero
Xenoblade Chronicles X, think it's out in November?
Rodea Sky Soldier
Amiibo, but hmm, maybe just one or two, danger there.

I'm sure someone here will do out a list of top must have eshop games for you too.

So yeah, there is a hell of a lot of games for the WiiU to keep you busy for years tbh. Yeah, WiiU is the winner this gen in my eyes for sure!

Jerichoholic

God bless your eyes.

Allyall

readyletsgo wrote: »

Legend of Kay Anniversary

I saw that somewhere onloine laste night, and it seemed ridiculously cheap
..
I remember thinking "has that already gone on sale and been reduced?"
Checking history..

readyletsgo

Allyall wrote: »

I saw that somewhere onloine laste night, and it seemed ridiculously cheap
..
I remember thinking "has that already gone on sale and been reduced?"
Checking history..

Haha no no, it's a remake of a ps2 game. The devs said a little while ago that they are selling it cheap to test the waters to see if there would be potential for a sequel in the future.

I've been waiting for its release since last year. It's only on WiiU and PS4 and at that price you can't go wrong for a 3d remake.

Allyall

readyletsgo wrote: »

Haha no no, it's a remake of a ps2 game. The devs said a little while ago that they are selling it cheap to test the waters to see if there would be potential for a sequel in the future.

I've been waiting for its release since last year. It's only on WiiU and PS4 and at that price you can't go wrong for a 3d remake.

Ahh... Found it anyway. - £14.69 on Base.com
I knew it was a remake, still thought that was very cheap..

sligeach

Jerichoholic wrote: »

Can I not just stick a 64g flash drive into the usb port?

You could though it's not recommended because of the constant writing and rewriting. That is one of the main reasons for running digital games from the internal memory.

Jerichoholic

sligeach wrote: »

You could though it's not recommended because of the constant writing and rewriting. That is one of the main reasons for running digital games from the internal memory.

Would only be for VC games, nothing bigger than 200mb. I'll give it a shot. Thanks.

Gizmo55

Jerichoholic wrote: »

Can I not just stick a 64g flash drive into the usb port?

Yeah, I did that for a few months with no problems at all. I eventually went all digital though, got a 500gb hard drive in Argos for €47 and a y-cable on Adverts.ie new for €5.
The premium Wii U in Argos is €312 with Mario Kart 8, the basic with Mario Kart 8 in Smyths is €199.99. IMO, you're paying €112 for an extra 24gb of memory. You don't need the stand or the sensor bar. You'll need a hard drive eventually with the 32gb model anyway. There used to be benefits to buying the premium, more informed people than I will know better than me but I think it was a reduction on certain games if you were a premium owner, or something like that but that's gone now.

Edit: I forgot to say games run exactly the same off an external hard drive as the internal one.

sligeach

Allyall wrote: »

The only differences between the White (basic) and Black (Premium) Consoles are:

White has no
Cradle/Dock for sitting and charging the Gamepad - Not required and can probably be found for under €5 if you look around.

The Wii U sensor bar - Not required and has been available for less then €2.

White Wii U has 8GB storage instead of 32GB storage in the black.

Everyone that has the black, has still said that they needed an external hard drive at some point. So really, there's not a lot of difference there, as you will need an external drive anyway.

You're really stretching it with those listed prices for the charging dock/stand and sensor bar(you need it to play Wii games on the TV). €15 more likely €20 is realistic. The colours wouldn't match, that would bug me and you're still missing the stands for the console. That's another €15 minimum from here including postage:


https://www.nippon-yasan.com/nintendo-wii-u-conosle-japan/9717-wii-u-vertical-stand-black.html


They're out of white.


Or €19 from Ebay for it in white. Crazy money for a little bit of plastic.

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Free-Shipping-Nintendo-Official-Authentic-Vertical-Stand-White-for-Wii-U-WUP-009-/181809704403?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a54b3edd3

Gizmo55

sligeach wrote: »

You're really stretching it with those listed prices for the charging dock/stand and sensor bar(you need it to play Wii games on the TV). €15 more likely €20 is realistic. The colours wouldn't match, that would bug me and you're still missing the stands for the console. That's another €15 minimum from here including postage:


https://www.nippon-yasan.com/nintendo-wii-u-conosle-japan/9717-wii-u-vertical-stand-black.html


They're out of white.


Or €19 from Ebay for it in white. Crazy money for a little bit of plastic.

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Free-Shipping-Nintendo-Official-Authentic-Vertical-Stand-White-for-Wii-U-WUP-009-/181809704403?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a54b3edd3

Maybe lie it flat? Crazy I know but there ya go Sensor bar is €5 in Cex.

Allyall

Wouldn't have to be the official one, as there's nothing in it.
Charger/Dock - http://www.banggood.com/Wholesale-White-Dock-Charging-Cradle-Station-For-Nintendo-Wii-U-Gamepad-Remote-Controller-p-56407.html

You could get a fancy looking sensor for €3 - http://www.banggood.com/Wholesale-Wireless-Remote-Sensor-Bar-For-Nintendo-Wii-Controller-p-1242.html
Or a normal one - for €3.45 (I've seen them a lot cheaper, probably on adverts.

Wii U Basic vs Deluxe: Extra Junk

Wii U Deluxe comes with some knickknacks that aren't in Basic, most notably a GamePad charging stand. This is nice, but not really necessary; GamePad doesn't take batteries anyway and it comes with a charger. The other parts are stands for Wii U, if you want to position it vertically. Pretty irrelevant.

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sligeach

Gizmo55 wrote: »

Yeah, I did that for a few months with no problems at all. I eventually went all digital though, got a 500gb hard drive in Argos for €47 and a y-cable on Adverts.ie new for €5.
The premium Wii U in Argos is €312 with Mario Kart 8, the basic with Mario Kart 8 in Smyths is €199.99. IMO, you're paying €112 for an extra 24gb of memory. You don't need the stand or the sensor bar. You'll need a hard drive eventually with the 32gb model anyway. There used to be benefits to buying the premium, more informed people than I will know better than me but I think it was a reduction on certain games if you were a premium owner, or something like that but that's gone now.

Edit: I forgot to say games run exactly the same off an external hard drive as the internal one.

https://p.nintendo.net/


You got a €5 voucher for roughly every €50 you spent digitally on Wii U and 3DS games. It ended last December 31st.


The Premium Wii U has gone up in price in Argos. It was €300 normally. I think it was even €280 for the Mario bundles. People buying now missed on a great deal on the Zelda Wind Waker bundle. It was €220 with 4 games plus Wind Waker and a €20 voucher. Before that there was the Lego City Undercover bundle, I think that was €240.


Gamestop I think last summer had a great deal going. The deals now are $###. Have some patience and something will pop up again or waste your money on Smyths crap deal if you wish.

martineatworld

sligeach wrote: »

It's not a great deal. And regarding a loss, if you sell it on? There's people that can't sell Premium Wii U's with several top games for €200.

Can you back this statement up?
Somebody already asked you to and you skipped over their question.

As for the windwaker deal, most people got either the voucher or the 4 games. They were meant as separate deals.

sligeach

Gizmo55 wrote: »

Maybe lie it flat? Crazy I know but there ya go Sensor bar is €5 in Cex.

Flat doesn't look as nice and for me it wouldn't work as I've the Wii U vertical in my unit right beside the TV and it looks the bees knees.

sligeach

martineatworld wrote: »

Can you back this statement up?
Somebody already asked you to and you skipped over their question.

As for the windwaker deal, most people got either the voucher or the 4 games. They were meant as separate deals.

Nope the Wind Waker deal was for both.


And I didn't skip anything. It's against the rules to link to ads on Adverts and the like?

martineatworld

sligeach wrote: »

Nope the Wind Waker deal was for both.


And I didn't skip anything. It's against the rules to link to ads on Adverts and the like?

It wasn't for both. Go through the thread and you'll see most people got one or the other.

I can only see mentions in the charter of advertising your own wares. A bargain is a bargain, and if you've no affiliation to the ad, there's no harm in it.
Feel free to pm myself or the original requester the links if you're unsure.

Gizmo55

sligeach wrote: »

Flat doesn't look as nice and for me it wouldn't work as I've the Wii U vertical in my unit right beside the TV and it looks the bees knees.

Exactly, different people have different set ups. It's up to them. If you don't like the basic wii u, fair enough, I just don't see what the extra €100 or so is for.

sligeach

The €20 voucher was separate to the Wii U deal. It was iirc for spending €200 and the 4 games was one of the options on the special offer. So you got both. The €20 voucher wasn't around as long as the €220 deal though.

If people had bought the Wii U 2 months ago in Argos, it destroyed Smyths current "offer". I'm sure there'll be more deals and if Nintendo don't do a price drop before Christmas they need their head examined. Argos have put everything up since the new catalogue came out and I'd say it's to stay ahead of the exchange rate.

RedXIV

4 new pages in a followed thread for bargains, I thought you had all found something epic

Delighted it's just an argument

accap1f8

RedXIV wrote: »

4 new pages in a followed thread for bargains, I thought you had all found something epic

Delighted it's just an argument

Oh we did. Did you see the Smyths offer for the Wii U basic. Everyone is going bananas for it :P

Gizmo55

RedXIV wrote: »

4 new pages in a followed thread for bargains, I thought you had all found something epic

Delighted it's just an argument

Argument? What? Where?! It's Basic vs. Premium. Choose your side!

martineatworld

sligeach wrote: »

The €20 voucher was separate to the Wii U deal. It was iirc for spending €200 and the 4 games was one of the options on the special offer. So you got both. The €20 voucher wasn't around as long as the €220 deal though.

If people had bought the Wii U 2 months ago in Argos, it destroyed Smyths current "offer". I'm sure there'll be more deals and if Nintendo don't do a price drop before Christmas they need their head examined. Argos have put everything up since the new catalogue came out and I'd say it's to stay ahead of the exchange rate.

There was a €10 voucher if you spent over a hundred which didn't last the length of the deal and was only avai) able for a very narrow period of time.
Not the €20 voucher which was a choice instead of the games.
You've yet to prove your earlier statement about people being unable to offload their wii U's.

If you're going to come out with such hyperbole, please back it up.

The wii u basic deal is very decent in terms of current deals. The uk equivalent deal has picked up decent heat on hukd, despite being a fair bit more expensive (€25) in the uk.

sligeach

I don't need to back anything up. People have brains and can check things out for themselves. I'll post this once, if it'll stop you spouting on about hyperbole, skipping, prove, back up and other nonsense. I apologise mods if I'm breaking the rules.

The number of Wii U's sold on Adverts in the past 2 weeks? 3.

http://www.adverts.ie/nintendo/wii-u-with-games-and-4-controllers/8422549 (6 top Wii U games, 4 Wii U pro controllers, €250 minus postage)

http://www.adverts.ie/nintendo/wii-u/8370845 (6 games, 1 Wii controller, €160)

The buyer of that bundle then sold it on with 1 game for €180.

http://www.adverts.ie/nintendo/wii-u-as-new/8419987

All Premium Wii U's.

Or how about currently for sale? DARK-KNIGHT has a Premium Wii U for sale with NSMBU & NSLU with a Wii remote for €220. It's been up over a week and the only offer made so far has been €100. Like I said, people are struggling to sell them.

http://www.adverts.ie/nintendo/wii-u/8422783

Gizmo55

sligeach wrote: »

I don't need to back anything up. People have brains and can check things out for themselves. I'll post this once, if it'll stop you spouting on about hyperbole, skipping, prove, back up and other nonsense. I apologise mods if I'm breaking the rules.

The number of Wii U's sold on Adverts in the past 2 weeks.

http://www.adverts.ie/nintendo/wii-u-with-games-and-4-controllers/8422549 (6 top Wii U games, 4 pro controllers, €250 minus postage)

http://www.adverts.ie/nintendo/wii-u/8370845 (6 games, 1 Wii controller, €160)

The buyer of that bundle then sold it on with 1 game for €180.

http://www.adverts.ie/nintendo/wii-u-as-new/8419987

We're all Wii U fans. It's all good.

Star Lord

Mod warning:

Folks, cut out the sniping and bickering and attacking one another please.

Back to the bargains!

Sligeach there's no need to rubbish every console bargain posted simply because you perceive it to be lesser value than has been available in the past. The posts are for current bargains. If it's a better deal than available elsewhere, it's a bargain. Every time you post these, the thread descends into arguing back and forth, so please do not do this again.

Digital Solitude

Lads has anyone bought a key from cdkeys.com? Bought some PC games before no hassle but wondering are they the same with 3DS. There's some good value stuff up there.

Apologies if this isn't allowed on thread.

Gizmo55

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Lads has anyone bought a key from cdkeys.com? Bought some PC games before no hassle but wondering are they the same with 3DS. There's some good value stuff up there.

Apologies if this isn't allowed on thread.

I have for Wii U and Xbox One and both came through quickly. They're great imo.

Allyall

Gizmo55 wrote: »

I have for Wii U and Xbox One and both came through quickly. They're great imo.

+1