Skylanders & Just Dance Wii U bundles heading to Australia
Nintendo Australia have just announced that there’s two more bundles on the way for Wii U here in Australia and in New Zealand. They’re the Skylanders SWAP Force and Just Dance 2014 basic bundles. The Just Dance set will go on sale on November 14th, the Skylanders one on November 21st. Both sets will go on sale for a recommended price of $349.95, that’s some good pricing there.
Both of these sets are being released on Thursdays, which used to be Nintendo’s ‘go to’ day for releases . Interestingly the Skylanders one is out one day before the Xbox One release. Snuck right in there!
The two bundles both include the Basic 8gb Wii U console in white but each one is tweaked slightly from there on out. The Skylanders SWAP Force bundle comes with;
- Wii U Basic Pack
- Nintendo Land game disc
- Skylanders SWAP Force starter pack that includes:
- Skylanders SWAP Force Wii U game disc
- Portal of Power
- Three Skylanders figures, including Ninja Stealth Elf and two SWAP Force characters: EXCLUSIVE Colour Shift Wash Buckler and Blast Zone
- Collector poster, trading cards and sticker sheets
The Just Dance 2013 bundle comes with everything you need to get dancing. The bundle is a little different though in that you will be given the Just Dance 2014 Additional Set if you purchase a basic Wii U anyway. There’s no extra cost here either. This additional Set includes;
- Wii U Basic Pack
- Just Dance 2014 Wii U game disc
- Nintendo Land game disc
- Wii Remote Plus (White)
- Sensor Bar
These two bundles are of course not the only bundles for the Wii U this year, there’s also the Mario & Luigi Premium pack which is also chock full of games. That bundle is out November 7th.
Do either of these two new bundles entice you to nab a Wii U?
These are OK bundles BUT I don’t think they will move much WiiU stock here in Oz… Nintendo Australia need more competitive pricing – these above mentioned bundles should be AUD$279.95 AND the Premium Nintendoland/Mario bundles AUD$339.95. These are sharper price points to assist lure parents to upgrade their family Wii’s for Christmas. Super Mario 3D World should have been a LAUNCH title…. it will help move stock this christmas but not enough with PS4 and XBox launching their new machines… Is Nintendo Japan better off buying a developer like SEGA and making their IP exclusive…. Would that help Nintendo’s cause….? Maybe..
This is amazing…where Nintendo themselves fail in providing Wii U bundle support in Australia (Wind Waker HD anyone?), third parties make up for it. Not to mention one of them is Activision, the company that while providing this bundle, decided against giving us a number off Wii U games here in Australia.
These are good deals especially considering a Wii U basic is sold at $349.95 here anyway so chucking in 2 games on top should certainly help sales here although I am still at a loss to understand why Nintendo Australia skipped on releasing the Zelda Wind Waker bundle here! Dropping the premium Wii U to a RRP of $399.95 should be a high priority!
The Wii U’s price is locked in for the year. Well, that’s what the owner of this website said in article some 3-moths ago. That’s why I pickup up premium bundle for $350 from d.smiths when it was on special, only for them to drop the price by another $100 not long after that.
I wish the wii u does better over the coming year or so. The first HD ninty console shouldn’t go the way of the GameCube. Maybe history will say it was a stopgap console before the launch of something it was meant to be. A bit like battlefield 4 being the game battlefield 3 should have been.