{"id":9645,"date":"2013-08-28T09:20:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T16:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theculturednerd.com\/?p=9645"},"modified":"2013-08-28T09:20:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T16:20:23","slug":"nintendo-wii-u-gets-a-price-drop-new-wind-waker-wii-u-bundle-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=9645","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Wii U gets a price drop; New Wind Waker Wii U Bundle revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zelda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9646\" alt=\"zelda\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zelda.jpg\" width=\"591\" height=\"501\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After weeks of Nintendo stating they were not dropping the price on the Wii U they have no revealed today that they will officially drop the price for the Wii U deluxe set (that&#8217;s thee console with 32 GB one) down from its current $349.99 to $299.99 starting on September 20.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not all. On the same day, Nintendo will be releasing a limited hardware bundle with The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD. This special Zelda Themed console has its GamePad decorated with gold symbols and trim and Hyrule\u2019s crest, and with the set comes download codes for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD and the Hyrule Historia book.<\/p>\n<p>While yesterday it was officially revealed that The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD would be getting its physical release on Oct 4th, it looks like the digital version will be hitting a few weeks early in this bundle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nAfter weeks of Nintendo stating they were not dropping the price on the Wii U they have no revealed today&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=9645\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Nintendo Wii U gets a price drop; New Wind Waker Wii U Bundle revealed&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[262],"class_list":["post-9645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videogames-2","tag-featured","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nintendo Wii U gets a price drop; 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