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Asda: We do support Nintendo, despite Wii U drop

Asda comments on their recent decision to no longer stock Wii U consoles in stores. The Wii U will still be available online, but is currently sold out due to a price promotion offered by the retailer.

Concertoine4684d ago

Ive honestly never heard of such a major retailer doing this. Looking at the gamecube, 3ds, dreamcast, cant recall this at any point in their troubled lifespans.
Even if the wii u is selling bad now, dropping right before the big wave of system sellers seems shortsighted.

konnerbllb4684d ago

Whoever disagreed please post an example of a retailer deciding not to stock a top console in it's second year of life cycle in the last twenty years.

Anarki4684d ago

http://kotaku.com/5944662/s...

I didn't disagree, but I do recall Amazon not stocking up on Nintendo products a while ago. Maybe It's just late.

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Concertoine4684d ago

@Anarki
How odd that is, i always thought of nintendo as being very retailer-friendly. In fact TOO retailer friendly, with their online store prices equal to that of retailers as well as their insistence on region locking.
Im sure nintendo can turn this around, but as of late the wii u seems to be in a worse place than the other next gen systems by a concerning margin.

Shad0wRunner4684d ago

But, but, but...Nintendo's stock rose 4%. That must mean theyre doing really, really well...right? /s LOL

PopRocks3594684d ago

Do all of your comments have to condescending in some manner?

Shad0wRunner4684d ago

I call it how I see it, Pop. Nothing personal. LOL

RicardJulianti4684d ago (Edited 4684d ago )

I mean....considering they can lose $300 million a year, every year...and still be around in 30-40 years.....yeah, they're not doing too bad. Especially since that simply won't happen.

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RicardJulianti4684d ago

They would buy back all of their stock by then and become a privately traded company so their stock price wouldn't be relevant.

Sony has lost over $4 billion since 2006....is their stock price tanking? Is the company worthless? No.

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chente00254684d ago

"The machine is temporarily unavailable on Asda Direct because of a £100 price cut, which has caused the console to sell out, he says."

"Wii U is doomed"....yeah right! Get a life losers.wii u will dominate this holiday season mark my words!

Shad0wRunner4684d ago

LMAO.

Not with the launch of PS4 and XBox One, this holiday season. It's gonna be a competition between who sells more units....and it wont be Nintendo.

Delusions of grandeur.

chente00254684d ago

"Not with the launch of PS4 and XBox One, this holiday season."

@shadowrunner 100 million consoles later....Wii says hello! ;)

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U.S. patent examiner rejects Nintendo’s summoning characters patent as obvious: non-final ruling

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).

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Relientk7756d ago (Edited 56d ago )

Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.

PRIMORDUS54d ago (Edited 54d ago )

Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

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Nintendo Completes Share Repurchase and Sets Price for Secondary Offering

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

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Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.

Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.

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Deathdeliverer80d ago

Well dayum lol. Old agent orange pissing off every industry and nation.

0hMyGandhi79d ago

The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.

AuraAbjure79d ago (Edited 79d ago )

Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.

EveryPlatformGamer80d ago

LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.

-Foxtrot80d ago

That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.

It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.

Outside_ofthe_Box80d ago (Edited 80d ago )

A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.

People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers

Inverno80d ago

The people should sue these companies for having to over pay cause of these tariffs.

Eonjay80d ago

Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.

Inverno79d ago

I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.

Killer2020UK79d ago

The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷‍♂️

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