Amazon Drops Price of Nintendo Wii in UK [Wii Console UK Price Drops to £140]

At the end of September we offered our US based readers a heads up concerning the Nintendo Wii console’s price being dropped to some $200 and now we can confirm that Amazon have just acted to cut the price of the Nintendo Wii in the UK by £40 seeing the Wii now retail at a new lower sub £140 price point.

For those of you who are UK based and are set on getting a Wii for, say, the rapidly approaching Christmas season – as a present, perhaps – or for those that have been holding out knowing that a price drop was on the cards its great news, of course, but there may still be reason to hold out.

Why? Well, simply put, the Amazon price drop applied to the original Wii console bundle (consisting of the console, a Wii remote, a Nunchuk and a copy of the original Wii Sports software title) and not to the newer Wii bundle that adds the new version of Wii Sports, namely Wii Sports Resort, as well as the MotionPlus controller add-on into the equation which is selling currently at just shy of £180 and which, we’d argue, is a somewhat better proposition all things considered.

Of course, if Wii Sports Resort and the finer degree of motion sensing offered by the MotionPlus controller add-on doesn’t interest you you’ll doubtless fine the original bundle more than suited to your requirements but, with more titles set to release that utilise MotionPlus you’ll probably find yourself forking out for it at a later date anyhow. That said, its your call, obviously.