LiveFromKyoto
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Relax. Even if pre-orders don't sell out 100%, stocks aren't surviving Black Friday.
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Att Sales Associates: How are the WiiU pre-sales going?
- Thread starter Nealand Liquor
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Neff
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Fat, rich, happy Nintendo is the best Nintendo. The one time they were the significant underdog with Gamecube, it compromised their quality control (SMS) and made company history with a hurried, butchered release of one of their most prestigious franchise installments.
A quick bout of world domination later and they were back to their old extravagant, carefree development schedules and untouchable output.
I'd gladly take desperate Nintendo's Super Mario Sunshining, Wind Wakering, Ambassador programming ways over fat, rich, happy Nintendo's NSMBing, Skyward Swording, Wii ____ing ways.
Rich Nintendo needs to do more saving of dead franchises (Bayo 2). Hopefully that continues well into the upcoming gen.
ChosenPredator
Banned
thinking about it I don't know anyone who even knows that a new WIIU is coming out and if i tell them about it, it gets an instant reaction of oh the graphics suck on that
Selective much? Wether or not you liked SS is not the question here, its a much more complete game than Windwaker and yes, that has to do with "Rich Nintendo"
How come you forgot the overwhelming amount of Mario Party, Golf, Tennis, etc. on the gamecube? What about resurrecting old franchises like Punch out for the Wii? That all counts for nothing?
The entire idea that Nintendo being knocked back is a good thing just baffles my mind.
I was thinking this was something over time, and then I realized it was all in the same thread.
metalslimer
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Well anecdotally hype is near non existent where I live, but then again the same was true for Kinect and that broke records
Nealand Liquor
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So you'll be able to walk into a store in Canada day one and pick up a system. You heard it here first, folks.
You're a testy one ain't ya.
BC. So just a bit out of the way for you. Sorry
Is your store doing a midnight launch? If so, I will cancel my pre-order at EB in Lougheed and walk over whenever you're working to hand you what little commission I can give you. PM me.
I mostly know people who love the Wii. I admit France is Nintendo Land, with Just Dance 4 and Skylanders charting in the top 5 selling games, or Mario Kart still being played by lots of my friends with their kids. I have friends who moved on to the PS3, but still play Smash Bros on a regular basis. I don't know anyone who didn't enjoy what this console had to offer in its prime /anecdotal evidence.
Neff
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If I'm being brutally honest with myself as a die-hard Nintendo fan, Metroid Prime and F-Zero GX were the only things to come from them during the Gamecube period that were unconditionally brilliant.
The Wii gave me SMG, SMG2, TP, SS (loved it), Mario Kart Wii, Metroid Prime 3, Other M (loved it, sorry), DKCR...
Take away Capcom's offerings and the Gamecube can't touch the Wii, imo.
The Wii gave me SMG, SMG2, TP, SS (loved it), Mario Kart Wii, Metroid Prime 3, Other M (loved it, sorry), DKCR...
Take away Capcom's offerings and the Gamecube can't touch the Wii, imo.
Nealand Liquor
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Yes we are. So what you wanna do is just get on the one road and head west till you come to water, catch a boat, get back on the one road and head west again. I'll see you there, I'm the blonde guy.
Why the 3ds though its not 2 years old yet and you know it will get good games. The wii took way to long to get good games and even my most hyped game for the system (SSBB)wasn't even all that great. Handhelds by nintendo have never failed in the long run to produce quality games but their consoles sure have.
Agent Unknown
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No, just humorous and imaginative. Haven't you ever dreamt of ancient floating cities or whether or not there's beer on the sun in between your preorder observations? Relax. Open your mind a little.
Gianni Merryman
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frankie_baby
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Amazon UK are not guaranteing launch day delivery for orders placed after 5th November
How does that fit together? They're excited but have no idea when it's coming out even?! Don't you at least google something once or type it into amazon when you're "excited" for it to come out?
you may wanna look at this:
Cornbread78
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All of the Layaways at Wal-Mart have two consoles on them, which means the flippers are the ones doing all the pre-orders unfortunately, so day 1 you won't find one in the store, but you will see hundreds on E-bay and Craigslist just hours after launch for hundreds more than retail price......
In Toronto Wii U preorders are sold out everywhere and there are waiting lists (except Costco, who doesn't do preorders). I went to Niagara Falls and buffalo two weeks ago and they were sold out as well. I think some geographic locations prefer different consoles or have different gaming habits of purchase.
Gianni Merryman
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Besides, being able to place an order doesn't necessarily mean anything.
Anedoctal evidence, last year I purchased from them a Ninky-nonk toy train for my little nephew as a Christmas gift, and only after a month or so they told me the item was out of production and apologised for any inconvenience caused.
Azure Phoenix
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Really poorly at the UK store I work at. It took a good 3 weeks or so to run out of pre-orders for the basic bundle and we've only taken a couple of each of the Nintendoland/ZombiU bundles. As for customers, after the first week where the hardcore Nintendo fans came to pre-order all of the typical families haven't had a clue what it is - usually resulting in everyone asking if it is a new Wii controller. After it is fully explained they generally seem interested - until the £300 price tag is mentioned.
In terms of raw numbers I'd say Wii U pre-orders at our store are a little bit ahead of the Vita and just behind the 3DS. Software pre-orders are incredibly low, most deposits aren't with any software whereas the few that are generally all consist of NSMBU or Nintendoland.
In terms of raw numbers I'd say Wii U pre-orders at our store are a little bit ahead of the Vita and just behind the 3DS. Software pre-orders are incredibly low, most deposits aren't with any software whereas the few that are generally all consist of NSMBU or Nintendoland.
Gianni Merryman
Member
I had to opt for a Thomas the Tank engine toytrain instead
:-( maybe the sequel will turn out better
OldJadedGamer
Banned
I'm waiting till after Black Friday so everyone knows they are hard to get and then I'll flip mine.
Shin Johnpv
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Who was it on here that was telling a story about a similar type thread when the Wii launched. They said some one in the thread had said they were working st such and such electronics stores and had a stack of Wiis that weren't selling (this is like right at launch). The person telling the story says that they contacted the person through PM since the store was close to where they lived to get them to a hold a Wii for them, and got a PM back with like uhhh sorry we're actually sold out I was making that up in the thread.
Point of telling some one else's story really badly was that I take all anecdotal evidence with a giant grain of salt. I'm not trying to say anyone posting in this thread now is a liar or anything like that, just that it's happened before (I'm sure both with positive and negative sold amounts) and very well could happen again.
Also apologies to who ever's story it was, for both butchering it, and not remembering your name.
Point of telling some one else's story really badly was that I take all anecdotal evidence with a giant grain of salt. I'm not trying to say anyone posting in this thread now is a liar or anything like that, just that it's happened before (I'm sure both with positive and negative sold amounts) and very well could happen again.
Also apologies to who ever's story it was, for both butchering it, and not remembering your name.
if sainsbury's, hmv, tesco and asda can manage it, i'm sure amazon will cope.
ElectricBlanketFire
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So you'll be able to walk into a store in Canada day one and pick up a system. You heard it here first, folks.
I wonder if there's beer on the sun?
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
According to this article, GAME UK expect to sell out before launch (30th). The White SKU is already sold out.
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/11/game_bracing_itself_for_pre_launch_wii_u_sell_out_in_the_uk
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/11/game_bracing_itself_for_pre_launch_wii_u_sell_out_in_the_uk
thank god I didn't order it there then!
kunonabi
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In terms of first party output the GC was easily my least favorite Nintendo console. I think 4 swords adventures and Metroid Prime were the only games I actually bout. GC was mostly a multiplat, multiplayer, capcom machine for me.
Agent Unknown
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"I figured that out with my hair. My hair is actually an elaborate network of nerves constantly processing information!"
My Gamestop has like 30 something preorders all together. There's about 9 names on the basic model waitlist and about 40 on the deluxe model one.
Waitlist requires no downpayments, so it's not like those are guaranteed purchases. I do get asked about it a lot though.
Waitlist requires no downpayments, so it's not like those are guaranteed purchases. I do get asked about it a lot though.