Deals: Buy a Deluxe Wii U from Nintendo for $200

Wow. I hope at some point Nintendo understands that they have to make the Wii u cheaper than the upcoming switch.

Whoever buys one now will have a great catalog of games

Nintendo, the Wii U is at the end of it's life and you're still selling a refurbished Wii U for the same price as a brand new PS4 Slim (plus game)? How about you embrace reality and ACTUALLY discount the Wii U and games?

$200 would have been a good price 2 years ago.

It's almost as if Nintendo is purposely not trying to sell Wii U's. Spending money now on a U means less money for the Switch. Why not have this before CHRISTmas?

Got my second gamepad as a back up. Don't need a second system now I guess. If and when the kids decide to get the Switch I will retire my Wii U for a while and get it back out to replay sometime in the future

I picked up a refurbished Wii u with nintendoland from the Nintendo store in July 2014 for this price. Thought it was a great deal and the unit was in perfect condition.

They have been selling these refurbished ones on their site for $200 for over 2 years now. Shocked they haven't reduced the price

I hope Nintendo have learned from WiiU fail in price tags.
PS4 SLIM was this X-mas for 249 € with 2 games !!!

Switch must be cheap, great and with many AAA titles from launch.

Too bad. I have owned Black Wii U (I don't like Black color for consoles actually). The only alternative ways to beautify my Wii U are : White Vinyl Sticker, White second Gamepad and my custom drawings attached on top of Wii U.

I was going to say that Nintendo's been selling refurbished consoles at that price off and on for a while (depending on availability), but several commentators above made that point abundantly clear.

Good one, guys. Its not if Nintendo's had Wii U bundles with Nintendo Land and 3D World for $225 for years.

Yup, it's been that price for several years now. Plus, who is going to want to purchase a Wii U now? Black Friday, people were in game stores purchasing the original Wii's and 3DS'...Wii U has been dead in the water for quite some time (used Wii U games and the amount of used systems show this). With the Switch being revealed, people are going to be waiting for that (just like I am). My Wii U was sold a year or so ago, and I still don't miss it (except I didn't get a chance to play Paper Mario, but I'm sure they will re-release it on Switch). It's a good price, especially when almost every game for the U is $20 or less, but finding most of them is pretty hard, considering most stores don't even carry the games or system around me (Toys R Us, Best Buy and some others virtually have nothing in the spaces for it). It's a shame, because the system had potential, but it seemed that even nintendo themselves, gave up on it after the first year or so. Hopefully the Switch doesn't end up like this. Still though, my favorite nintendo system didn't do so hot either, and I still love and play it to death...Gamecube is still my favorite (Even though the PS4 is quickly catching up to it in my library), but I'll always have a love for the Gamecube with all of the various new IP's that came out on it...Still play Billy Hatcher to death, and still waiting for a new Viewtiful Joe and Lost Kingdoms title!!! Plus, there's so many other wonderful games for the system!

I still wished at least one Wii U game would have used the ability of the system to have two game pads connected at once. It would have been expensive as bleep, but it could have been a cool game.

@DanteSolablood The Gamepad is so expensive the Wii U will never be a cheap item unless you get it used on eBay after the Switch comes out and people want to unload theirs cheap.

@Amrulez More fool Nintendo for creating a console that would become increasingly less competitive price wise than all of it's competitors & now more expensive than the generation following it.

I will say however that Nintendo would likely have brought out a cheaper revised version had the Wii U been a success like it has done previously. We'll never know however.

Where was this deal during the Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Green something-something craziness? Jeez, Nintendo.
Anyway, $200 should be the base price for the Wii U at this point. The Switch's price will most likely be higher than $200.

@DanteSolablood you're asking a lot here.

@Anti-Matter

Please don't draw on your system. Thank you.

200 should be the price of a Switch in March tbh

@Amrulez the Gamepad is not expensive. It's 2017. The Gamepad was expensive (i.e. Nintendo refuses to take any loss on any hardware) in like 2013.

@Anti-Matter your Wii u must look so beautiful with glitters and stickers.
At least if there's no games to play on it, you can be creative and make the console pretty and beautiful.

@Spoony_Tech if I had to guess, to avoid irritating their retail partners who are trying to clear stock (who they need to carry the Switch).

@redd214 Was going to say, this is nothing new.

Wii U should have had a major price drop a year or so ago.

NOA still finds ways to shock me with their stupidity...

@iGen
I don't draw exactly on my Wii U. I just attached my drawing from computer, laminated drawing. I use very tiny double tape to attach my drawing so it will be easy to removed.

@UK-Nintendo
Ah, my Wii U still boring black color, hasn't attached by White vinyl sticker yet. But I had done with my 3DS XL. Used to be Pink x White but now Indigo on top cover Light Blue on bottom cover. Just use Colorful Asturo paper, with tiny of double tape to attach and Clear case to wrap and protect my custom skin.

Refurbished for $200.00? Been a fan of the Big N for quite some time, but they can be pretty tone-deaf.

I was surprised it is a refurbished unit, but I shouldn't have been.

@Anti-Matter

Ah, okay. Good to hear, then.

I have a spare for the day mine dies so I can guarantee that I have a Wii U hooked to my tv for like 10 more years. I have 300+ games on it and can play 8 person smash. It's the best console I've ever owned and it's sad that it really was a flop. It is literally on more then our tv, whether for gaming or YouTube etc... and I know when I get a switch, it will be more mine then the families. My 3ds is my main gaming console because i can play the same game when I go, which is why I can't wait for a switch.

I find this disturbing. I've had my Wii U for a while now, I bought it used from Amazon and it came with 8 games. I paid 250. About 2 years ago, my friend bought hers and it only came with Nintendo land and Wii party u, and it cost her 200. Just a few months ago, my brother bought one with Mario Kart pre installed and it was 200. I know it's less money out of pocket. But For some reason, it feels as if they're raising their prices instead of dropping them.

I can understand the importance of price for casuals, but for any gaming enthusiast the difference of $50 or even $100 in price should not be an issue. Buying a $200 console is fine, but make it $300 and it'll break the bank lol? Especially for something you only buy once ever 5 years or so

@Savino
The Wii U hasn't been $350 since fall of 2013 when Zelda Windwaker released and they slashed the price of the console.

The Wii U is, and has been for the last 3 years, $249 for the 8gb (which is sold out in the west I believe) and $299 for the Deluxe bundled with 2 games.

Wii u is still $428 in australia. You can buy a ps4 slim with a 500gb hdd for $319. Needless to say the ps4 sold well over christmas, wii u did not.

Nintendoland lol
worst bundled game ever

The stores will be marking em down to make room for Switchs soon enough. Just wait a little longer if you wanna pick one up.

@Prizm Meh, I prefer it over Altered Beast.

@Angelic_Lapras_King
European Wii U bundle (Wii Party U) was the most temptating bundles for me.
White color, omg... but too bad, 8 GB.

@Anti-Matter Fun fact, while the White model was discontinued outside of Japan in short time, in Japan the Black model was discontinued in short time and they brought out a White 32GB over there to replace the Black one due to Japan preferring the White colour.

200 bucks is not worth it, knowing that the switch might receive some ports of Wii U games. Nintendo should sell it for 150 bucks at highest. Otherwise its best for them to retrieve the remaining Wii Us in stock and recycle those parts for something else. Not making the Wii U cheaper still scares me when it comes to Nintendos mentality. They really want their heads to stay deep in their Japanese.

I bought a 2nd Wii U system for slightly less brand new at a local electronics store over 2 years ago. They wanted to get rid of current stock and stop selling gaming stuff altogether, so perhaps I lucked out but sure, local stores have had much greater Wii U deals over the years than Nintendo ever had.

$200 sure is too much for a refurbished system, I'd rather recommend newcomers who really want to play the good Wii U games to look for a deal elsewhere.

I bought my Wii U a month or two after launch for 249 euros :/ It's the white basic model but I never saw the 32 GB version a sensible option anyways. I had a hard drive laying around so it worked out fine.

Ninty sure likes its stuff.

Pretty awful price for a Wii U. Both the Xbox One and PS4 were selling for $199.99 at Meijer last year brand new.

@Angelic_Lapras_King I'm not surprised. Japan never has been too keen on blacks there.

Pretty awful price compared to their older systems. The Wii Mini cost $99.99 brand new. The Platinum GameCube was $99.99 with Smash Bros. for a while. Meijer sold it for $65.00 for a while. Hastings even sold the Indigo GameCube for $49.99 then gave out a $49.99 Refund Check when the Wii was out. That's a free game console folks. And Wal-Mart sold the Virtual Boy for $29.99 brand new and FYE sold the GBA SP (Frontlit) for $29.99.

I feel bad for anyone that actually buys a Wii U at this point.

A refurbished unit for $200? The Wii U should be $200 new right now, with refurbished units going for $150 or so. This is a poor price bracket placement- you can easily find a used/refurbished 500GB Black model of the original PS4 for $200 online. (And the holiday sales had new ones going for the same price!)

No way, not spending $200 on this when the switch is right around the corner. 😂 I'll get my smash fix on 3ds

That has been an option for years already, but I guess it's good to report on since it may not be widely known. The timing of this article however is not great... It would have been much better to point this out prior to the holidays to inform potential buyers.

The few times I have recommended buying a Wii U to people in the past, this is the option I have recommended going with.

There was a load of systems that didn't have price drops or good price drops for Black Friday and Christmas the Wii U being one plus the PS4 Pro, PS Vita and PSVR could have done well really good deals.

Why is this still fking expensive??? Some Gamestops I've seen still have a used WiiU at 249.99 wtf? That should be around the same price as an xbox 360. $60.00