{"id":44216,"date":"2012-09-04T14:54:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T12:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=44216"},"modified":"2012-09-04T15:04:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T13:04:42","slug":"wii-u-price-and-launch-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/44216-wii-u-price-and-launch-date","title":{"rendered":"Wii U price and launch date?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a rumour post over on Nintendo Life, the Wii U will be shipping out in North America on 11 November 2012, with an entry level price of US$249.99 (\u00b1R2,100).<\/p>\n<p>There are three products listed however:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WIIU SYSTEM &#8211; GM &#8211; 11\/11\/12 $249.99<br \/>\nWIIU SYSTEM W\/ &#8211; GM &#8211; 11\/11\/12 $299.99<br \/>\nWIIU SYSTEM 349 W\/ &#8211; GM &#8211; 11\/11\/12 $349.99<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>NintendoLife theorises that these may be bundles with games and extra controllers.<\/p>\n<p>The info apparently comes via Video Product Distributors (VPD) who count among their clients Amazon, Blockbuster, and Overstock. By way of evidence, we have a YouTube user who logged into the VPD site and recorded their perusal of the products.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZRiAVv9Br3Q?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Firmly in rumour country for now until Nintendo decides to make things official. I&#8217;m off to find some popcorn for all of this salt.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"NintendoLife\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2012\/09\/more_tantalising_wii_u_pricing_rumours_emerge_online\" target=\"_blank\">NintendoLife<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42759-wii-u-europe-release-reportedly-pushed-back-to-december.html\">Wii U European release reportedly pushed back to December<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42179-wii-u-pro-controller-is-for-hardcore-gamers-says-nintendo.html\">Wii U Pro controller is for hardcore gamers, says Nintendo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40740-wii-u-hardware-specs-appear.html\">Wii U hardware specs appear<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumour abound! Wii U price and release date is back in the mill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":39141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[31,73,4808,773,1399],"class_list":["post-44216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-nintendo","tag-active","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-wii-u","tag-rumour","tag-wii-u"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44224,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44216\/revisions\/44224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}