Guide: The Hottest Boxing Day 2014 Deals for Wii U and 3DS

Any deals on eShop cards?

@Tasuki I think they actually added $10 to Monster Hunter 3U...

In the US, LEGO Batman 3 is cheaper on the eShop than at GameStop.

I'll wait until next year for a Wii U, this just isn't good in the US.

At least I'll get another £5 off at Amazon, took part in a gift card promotion and got £5 voucher for it.
Tempted to buy Super Smash Bros U now, already bought Super Mario 3d World on eshop sale today (£35) and upgraded my Super Mario Bros U with Luigi add on. Bought Sonic Lost World for £18.99 (which is a good price for that game) from Game on Xmas Eve aswell, might still be that price now.
Too many good deals!

Toad treasure tracker is tempting at that price but hard times ahead so I'll save my pennies for now.

I'd like to see a discount over the winter for the whole eshop. The retail titles remain hideously expensive - Pilotwings Resort is still £39.99! Some of the older ones ought to cost around £15-20, even if for a short period of time. It would be good for DLC to be less pricey too, namely the Fire Emblem Awakening DLC. It would also be nice for the parched VC range and download-only titles to be a little bit more reasonable, it can't be right that the original cartridges cost less than the VC release. Again, even 10, 20% off would be welcome across the entire eshop,

I got a External HDD for a reason, to download games, initially Bayonetta 1 & 2..now its £34 for both on disk. 2TB waste..unless, nope, no download option.

@Tasuki US amiibo deal seems good.

... No Canada?

I didn't even know they did boxing day in the US!

Why are 1st party Nintendo titles almost never included in these sales stateside?

Might pick up mario 3d world on the eshop

I got two Walmart gift cards for $10, $50 cash, and two GameStop gift cards for $20 and $25 for Christmas. So I have $70 to spend at Walmart and $45 to spend at GameStop. I want to get Smash Bros, Hyrule Warriors, Bayonetta 2, and Captain Toad. I have a B2G1 free coupon at GameStop. What's the best way to use all this in the cheapest way possible?

The coupon only works for pre-owned games. So Smash Bros, Hyrule Warriors, and Bayonetta 2 will all be $50 each.

@Jazzer94
The Amiibo deal seems alright until you go to a Toysrus and find they have almost no stock of them. All they ever really have is the normal 3000 of Mario/DK/Peach but nothing else. So most people won't find what they want. Toysrus also has all Amiibo marked up from the normal retail price which also lames up the deal especially for anyone who has Gamers unlocked from BestBuy where you get 20% off any amiibo.

@WingedSnagret
Because Nintendo of America has rigged pricing structure, seldom reduces MSRP, and makes it a pain for retailers to work deals into their products.

The shopto deal at £99.99 with both NSMB2 (+ the DLC) + MK7 for about £100 is a great deal. (Just the codes at the moment are being sold for £17 which is less than just the NSMB2 DLC on its own).

@darthllama That practice is legal in the US. (Not in the EU - Nintendo got a huge fine for it. The customers who got ripped off got nothing from it though).

How long does that Toy's R Us deal last? Is it just Friday or will it go to the weekend?

Canada has Boxing Day too.
So if any of our NL American friends feel like it, they can always check out some of the Canadian sites (ie. Amazon.ca, Future Shop, Best Buy) if they're interested.
Though the customs duties may put you off.

Why do retailers in France never have any good deals! Same for the eShop. The U.S. gets discounts far more often Europe, it seems.

Picked up 3d world yesterday and it's sublime. First time in a while after playing first session of a game I thought, wow that was awesome! So recommended at £35 for sho.

@EJzelda you miss out - I've put about $1000 into my system so far I picked it up in March - so yeah - that is about $100 a month on games.

Its worth pointing out on amazon uk ,new super mario bros u is £15.25 and Nintendo land is £9.50

Dissapointing...

Those U.S. deals are a joke. MH3 was already 20$ on the eshop on more than one occasion.

In Canada you can get Smash U for 44.99$ at the moment. Too bad I'm not there to take advantage of it

@3DS So you you feel bad that you supported a developer so that they can continue to offer you great titles in the future? We all know, prices drop after the initial launch (perhaps not as quickly as we would like).

@vitalemrecords
I'm glad you're enjoying yourself. I will get one soon enough and have plenty to play by then.

@ZenTurtle The DLC is crazy there are people selling the bundles NSMB2 codes for £17.99 (Which include the game and DLC) for less than just the DLC which is at £20.

Retail deals that drop the price of Smash Bros by $20 and yet .... NOTHING ON ESHOP?!

What gives Nintendo Eshop? You keep a higher portion of sales proceeds, there are no disks that can be traded afterwards, yet you want to rip off customers by charging them amounts that are over market?

Yuck!

wow those deals suck :0

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate just went on sale on NA WiiU eShop, 15.99

I spent today at Gamestop, where they are having a buy two get one deal on preowned games. I got three games and two amiibos for $60, it wasn't bad.

I got Disney Epic Mickey, a DS Harvest Moon, and Rune Factory 2.

Time to stock up on Amiibo

Are these affiliate links ? If they are it is really scummy when they are not even the best price.

i.e Wii Party U - The Game Collection £9.99 or Shopto £10.85. Or from Ratukan listed as £10.95 from the Game Collection but then use code XMAS5 to get £5 of a £10 spend.

Nintendo Land is £4.85 from Shopto.

In Canada, the SSB4 (Wii U) is $20 off at future shop. The sale lasts till the 29th. That's how I got my copy.

Just ordered Captain Toad, despite having loads of Wii U games to play!

169 is a 'hot' deal??
WOW. You wanna know my hot find??
110 CAD for a red 3DS (not XL) and Luigi's Mansion. With taxes and gratuities.
169?
Get out of here.
20% off all used consoles, 35% off all strategy guides, Buy 2, get one free.
Forget the 'big guys' and find a smaller shop, one where the employees know the difference between a Wii Classic Pro that looks like a GC controller and a GC controller. Where they know the original Xbox requires a DVD playback kit to watch movies. The 3DS CAN handle SD cards up to 128GB (not 32, as suggested elsewhere). And that the Wii U Gamepad is not, in fact, a portable tablet.

I had the option of spending 25$ more and getting one of 3 XLs, but decided to save some cash and put it towards eShop cards (Etrian Untold and Night Sky for less than 20$).

Lol at the 1st party complaints.
Uncharted vs Uncharted 2 vs Uncharted 3
2 of those games barely sell and most Sony first party stuff reduces to half price or less in the first 3-6 months.
Because no one cares to replay them.
Halo. Forza. Final Fantasy. Mario. Zelda.
Games that are so defining when one considers their genres.
Halo still sells for 20$ or more in most used shops.
And the Nintendo titles are the same way.
Because you can tell the difference (easily) between the different games.
Even those MS games don't have that ability.
But you know FF VII from X. IX from XIII. And not just across generations.
The same goes for Zeldas and Marios.
Sunshine vs 64. 1 vs 2 vs 3. World vs World 2.
Ocarina vs Majora. TP vs WW.
Nintendo likes remaking games. But they HATE sequels.
Because it's Miyamoto's expression as an artist, not some programmer's fascination with movies and comics that we see. Nintendo has branched out from there, for sure. But as long as Miyamoto's still on the team, Nintendo's first party titles will be held in reverence and their value will stay strong.
You can talk about Nintendo 'rigging prices', but when you see MK Wii selling for 50$ used, try and tell me it's all Nintendo.