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Fire Emblem sold out/delayed at many retailers
- Thread starter gryz
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Duane Cunningham
Member
Okay, I just ran to the BB near me. No physical copies in the front, back or anywhere, and he checked all the stores in town (KC) and it was the same thing. No Best Buys here physically have it yet.
Best Buy usually gets large shipments on Saturdays (at least in the district I used to work in) so I'd assume they'd get copies then...The next truck isn't until Tuesday.
PhoenixSFT
Member
Awesome. I'll come home from an early morning work event and hopefully be able to pick the game up on my way home...
30? Jeez you must be going for everything. Game only took me 15 hours. It was alright, but not as good as Thousand Year Door. But I digress, as this is not a Paper Mario Sticker Star thread.
HitokiriNate85
Member
It was listed for Monday but I don't think it's actually street dated, which means they can sell it as soon as they have copies. The clerk you talked to probably just didn't know and assumed it was a regular release.
ShockingAlberto
Member
Which Best Buy did you work at?
Store 0020 in Cedar Rapids, IA.
Empty Space
Member
Called all three of the Gamestops in my area and all three of them swore they still hadn't got any copies, which is super strange since they seem to get new stock in on Fridays. I'm a little curious as to what exactly is going on with the US shipment. I find it hard to believe that NoA would deliberately hamper physical sales for the purpose of bolstering digital ones, but that's kind of what it look like right now.
phalestine
aka iby.h
I mean technically, if it was under-shipped, its still is selling out ;p
ShockingAlberto
Member
RiderKairuu
Member
Lol! Honestly I have no problem waiting until the 8th if I was 100% guaranteed a copy.
Colonel Nasty
Member
So when will the game be on the Eshop?
TSAGoodness
Member
Gamestop in Boston said they had no idea when they'd get them in, but they were told most likely Friday 2/8 
Velcro Fly
Member
Nintendo could fuck up a two car funeral I swear. If this is how they are going to be handling releases now I'm not going to be looking forward to buying their products.
HitokiriNate85
Member
GS gets shipment every week day. My GS(former place of employment) still doesn't have their copies. If the game was releasing Sunday then yeah, they would've got them in by today at the latest, but since it is(well, was) Monday they likely won't get copies until Monday. It's surprisingly common for Nintendo games to show up on the day of release just through Fedex. At least, it was common in my years at Gamestop.
EDIT: Also, and a heads up, you can check to see if they physically have the game in stock through their website.
Monday, February 4th at 12:00AM EST.
EleventhDoctor
Banned
What is the file size for the eShop download? I just ordered a 32GB SD card from Amazon to deal with this nonsense.
Colonel Nasty
Member
E shop it is!
Now I know to stay up until midnight on Sunday night. And when I wake up, I'll have a smoking hot Fire Emblem to play!
8,579 blocks, or about 1.14GB.
Empty Space
Member
Colonel Nasty
Member
New Super Mario bros was up at 12:00 am
This is like the happiest clusterfuck ever.
It's always been midnight for these releases, so it is in fact AM.
Empty Space
Member
The game is tied to your 3DS account, but the 3DS account is tied to the system, if that makes sense. You can transfer your 3DS account to another 3DS as long as you physically have both systems, and the game will go with you. It's better than the Wii where there was no option to move games you've purchased, but it's not as good as 360 where you can play any game you've purchases from any system as long as you're logged into Live.
LOL, perfect analogy. Also The fastest, most convenient way to travel.
eudaemonic
Member
I laughed pretty hard at that saying.
Because the game will do better than what Nintendo expected at launch?
freakzilla3000
Junior Member
Hopefully this will mean great sales for the game.... It seems to be doing great review wise as well!
Cant wait!
Cant wait!
Astral/H3X
Member
Just in case you guys are worried about Iwata stepping down, just remember that downloading digitally gives a LOT more of the cut to Nintendo, especially since it's first party. I'm buying every first/second party game digitally just to give them more money.
And also because I like digital download games.
robotzombie
Member
Most retailers are suggesting distribution problems and don't expect to get the game on the release date, suggesting possibly 4 days later they will have it, not to mention they may be unable to fulfill all preorders
Yeah I meant the parts where the street date was broken a week early, and then ultimately moved forward by 3 days. Not the shipping delays...
But it is good that sales appear to be exceeding initial estimates.
Allan Holdsworth
Member
I'm getting the bundle, but I was hoping to get a sealed copy for cheap eventually for my collection. Looks like it's not gonna happen unless the next shipments are more generous.
Warrior_Keoni
Member
This will be my first official 3DS game in a physical format but I'll just wait patiently until Amazon ships their batch out.
You've never bought a physical 3DS game, just the download games?
Good news. Called Gamestop on Market Street (San Francisco), they told me they THOUGHT it was delayed but they are actually expecting copies to arrive either tonight or before monday. I specifically asked if I could buy it once they get copies, they said YES the street date WAS removed and as soon as they get them they can sell it. I have a pre-order at said store so I don't know if that makes a difference in the answer I got or not.
This gives me hope. I don't want to have to choose between a physical copy and an artbook, and playing on Monday.
dakkumauji
Member
Hopefully this holds true for the rest of the city.
To piggyback off this, I just called my Gamestop in Los Gatos and they did confirm it's not street dated, but that they were expecting it anywhere between the 5-8th. Bleh.