{"id":51181,"date":"2013-02-28T11:40:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T09:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=51181"},"modified":"2013-02-28T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T13:00:43","slug":"wii-mini-sa-pricing-is-it-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/51181-wii-mini-sa-pricing-is-it-worth-it","title":{"rendered":"Wii Mini SA pricing: is it worth it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Core Group, distributor of Nintendo products in South Africa, has announced that the Wii Mini console will have an RRP of R1,499 when it releases on 21 March 2013.<\/p>\n

Regarding the console itself, the Wii Mini\u2019s online functionality has been trimmed off, and it lacks media streaming services.<\/p>\n

There will be no backward compatibility with GameCube games, leaving the console a dedicated Wii gaming machine.<\/p>\n

The console will be available in one colour in SA, red, along with a matching Wii Remote Plus and Nunchuck.<\/p>\n

In the UK, the pricing of the pint-sized Wii console caused a bit of uproar, as various retailers set vastly varying prices for the console. It is now currently listed for \u00a379.99 on Amazon UK (\u00b1R1,070).<\/p>\n

The console was supposed to be a low-cost option, being originally priced for Canada at CA$99 (around R880).<\/p>\n

We recently also looked at the cheapest PS3<\/a> and cheapest Xbox 360 options<\/a> in SA.<\/p>\n

Are you prepared to pay R1,499 for Nintendo\u2019s new little console?<\/p>\n

\"Wii<\/a>

Wii Mini<\/p><\/div>\n

For those interested in the device, it is worth checking out Digital Foundry’s tear-down of the console: Nintendo Wii Mini review<\/a>. *SPOILER ALERT* They weren’t impressed.<\/p>\n

More SA gaming features:<\/h3>\n

Who has the cheapest PC games?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cheapest shops for console games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Who has the cheapest Xbox 360?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Where to get the cheapest PS3?\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How much are you willing to spend on Nintendo\u2019s stripped-down Wii?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":51182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[7919,155,21,73,2752,5793,5794,7918,151,7884],"class_list":["post-51181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-nintendo","tag-cheap-wii","tag-console","tag-headline","tag-nintendo","tag-sa-gaming-market","tag-sa-gaming-news","tag-sa-news","tag-smaller-wii","tag-wii-2","tag-wii-mini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51181","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51184,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51181\/revisions\/51184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}