Randy

Michigan

what would michael jackson do?

Buy a Wii to let little boys touch his “controller”

I have seen comments floating around about certain games in the bundle being unfairly called “crap”, and I apologize if I offended fans of one or all of the games being offered in this bundle.

That said, I am still disappointed in the retailers decision to force consumers to pony up $700 all at once to purchase the console plus ten games (regardless of the titles), with no discount, and no choice being given to the consumer regarding the games they will be forced to purchase.

Chad-

Shame on consumers who don’t know how to (or won’t) add and/or do research.

Thank you TRU for teaching Americans an object lesson in critical thinking and basic math skills, and making them pay through the nose when they fail the test…

Sure it’s capitalism, but there’s a wide range of capitalism practices. One is to provide a good product for a fair price and make a profit. This is the good kind of capitalism.

The other end of the spectrum is to trick consumers into thinking they are getting a deal, or force a bundle down their throats due to low supplies. This is the bad kind of capitalism. It’s based on thinking of customers as prey and not caring about repeat business.

The first kind tends to build the business. The second kind just tears it apart. I don’t know about you, John, but conning customers or destroying any goodwill I’ve built up isn’t something I’d want to do if I managed a store.

As for this being capitalism, well it’s short-sighted capitalism. Nintendo lost out on a sale of a console and I read somewhere that it is the game royalties that bring in more revenue over the life of a console versus the initial sale of console its self? If so Nintendo lose in the long run and TRU is screwing them as well as the customer.

We also will not be using TRU as much in the future, my wife thought that the bundle was Nintendo’s doing and that prices would be the same elsewhere.

Spiderman: Friend or Foe – 59
Transformers: The Game – 55
Bee Movie Game – 64
Crash of the Titans 07 – 70
Dewey’s Adventure – 67
Zak and Wiki – 87
Raving Rabbids 2 – 68
Geometry Wars: Galaxies – 80
Petz Dogz 2 – No rating (!)
Soulcaliber Legends – 53

So, two good games, seven mediocre ones, with an average score of 67 (Petz Dogz not included). IMHO it’s not a rip-off, but like with anything, the purchaser should use discretion when buying and decided whether they really want all that.

It reminds me of when my dad bought us kids an Atari 2600 back in 1983, with seven bonus games (one being, yes, ET!). It was supposed to have been a bargain (something like $399 Australian), but as a seven year old who had never even heard of the ET nightmare, I didn’t care a bit! We had a video game system, and that was cool :-D

I would have probably waited to buy a Wii until the production numbers were back up (therefore sending the price back to its more reasonable baseline), but because of these blatant price-driving tactics, I decided to get an Xbox 360 instead.

I haven’t been disappointed with that decision at all.

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I still would have rather just gotten the Wii, an extra remote and Zelda to start, but at least it was all good stuff and not $300 worth of trash like this bundle has.

I am well aware of the principals of supply and demand. I am also aware of the fact that the Wii has a fixed price (relative to each respective market) set by Nintendo and that the company’s President (Reggie Fils-Aime) clearly stated that he does not want retailers creating bundles like the bundle Toys”R”Us is “offering” consumers.

When asked in a recent interview about the bundles being created by retailers Reggie Fils-Aime stated the following:

“Retailers have already been given feedback that we are not big fans of that. We think it masks some of the price advantage we have versus our competition and, frankly, the consumer should decide what they want,”

In closing, I have every right to state my opinion regarding these practices (look up freedom of speech).

Link to Reggie interview and comments on retailer bundles

Chad-