Wii price rise: UK consumers to take £200 hit

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Specialist and independent retailers still deliberating what to do...

Nintendo announced this week that it is set to increase the trade cost of the Wii console to retailers by £19, with retailers still deliberating whether or not to pass this price rise on to the good ol' British gamer.

While smaller independent retailers are already confirming that they plan to pass on the increased trade costs of Nintendo's Wii to the consumer, it is still unclear how the bigger specialist retail chains and supermarkets are going to react to Nintendo's announcement.

"We are still digesting this announcement, and are currently evaluating our response to it," a HMV spokesperson told TechRadar earlier today.

Leading online retailers Amazon and Play.com both had 'no comment' to make on the situation. It is clear that all the leading games retailers are playing a waiting game to see what their competition does, before committing to a price hike (or, in an ideal world, not raising the cost of the Wii to their customers).

While many gamers and industry pundits are unhappy with the move, accusing Nintendo of short-termism, considering the cash mountains the company is sitting on generated from the last few years of hugely successful sales of Wii and DS.

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I have a wii so I dot worry

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Only Nintendo could get away with this. The 360 and PS3 are dropping in price, whilst the Wii is seeing a price rise. And only in the UK, bleh.

I blame our PM. Oh Gordon Brown, what have you done to our Pound?

200 pounds?
I bought mine 1 week ago for 222 euros.

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