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Donkey Konga Bundle Pack Announced

Posted by Zonk on from the cool-except-for-the-donkey-rap dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Nintendo will release the new Donkey Konga Ultimate Bongo Bundle Pack to the European market on the 15th October for a reported £89.99. The bundle includes a black Gamecube, controller , a copy of Donkey Konga and a bongo drum controller." No word yet on a US release.

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  1. Don't Forget to add 20 dollars by Mr.Dippy · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm still confused why Nintendo won't include a memory card with its bundle packages. Great, I get a metroid prime and a gamecube for a 100 bucks but now that really is $120. $169 for the Donkey Kong bundle is really $189

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    -Dipster
  2. Re:That assumes British game prices make any sense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Hmm... hold on a moment here.

    On the face of it, yes, British game prices are high. However, what you will find is that a large proportion of high-street retailers sell games (particularly PC, PS2 and X-Box games) well below their Recommended Retail Price. This applies not just to titles on specified "budget" labels, but often to games that are no more than a month old. Indeed, if you were to buy a new PS2 today, you'd be able to pick up a huge number of the "must have" games (eg. Final Fantasy X, Gran Tursimo 3, Metal Gear Solid 2, Kingdom Hearts, Silent Hill 2 etc) on the "2 for £30" ranges. I even got Onimusha 3, a very recent game, as part of such a deal a couple of weeks ago. This is actually better than anything I've seen in the equivalent US stores. The simple message with buying games in the UK is that if you can bring yourself to wait a month or two, you'll save a lot of money.

    The exceptions tend to be Nintendo products. Gamecube games don't tend to be included in these deals to the same extent; you can get some of the 3rd-party titles, but the fact that I've never seen the most prominent, such as Mario Sunshine, included implies to me that there may be a spot of price-fixing going on. GBA games are an out-right rip-off and I refuse to buy them at all in the UK. The few that I've got were bought on visits to the States.