People think Nintendo manufactured shortages of Wii to increase demand. Yeah, it became the fastest selling console of all time and sold 100 million units by shipping less. That makes perfect sense.
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Kotaku: Gamestop has sold out preorder deluxe Wii U stock nationwide
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People think Nintendo manufactured shortages of Wii to increase demand. Yeah, it became the fastest selling console of all time and sold 100 million units by shipping less. That makes perfect sense.
Trevelyan9999
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Does anyone have any idea on when the Wii U will come out in Latin America? Some of my wife's family lives down there and so far there is no information on a release date.....
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Best buy precharges? Or do you mean they put a hold but don't actually charge until they ship?
metalslimer
Member
Manufacturing a shortage of a video game console is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard namely because Nintendo makes the most money off of software which can't be sold to people who haven't bought their system. Wii had unprecedented demand that would have caused shortages for anyone besides like Apple (who also has shortages).
You see the last NPD? The industry, at least in the retail space, needs a shot in the arm right now.
Wiz
Member
Yeah, that.
Silent_Ocarina
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Wiz
Member
Oh wow, could have sworn they were available earlier! This is crazy!
Edit: K-Mart has them available (for now!)
Quadrangulum
Banned
It's 2006 all over again. And with some of the same posters too I think!
As you say, it doesn't make sense to create an artificial shortage. Moreover, we have mountains of decisive evidence that proves Nintendo wasn't doing this with the Wii. Yet, despite being refuted a billion billion times, it has somehow become a Nintendo MO.
gamergirly
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grimshawish
Banned
Yeah, creating a 'fake' shortage is nothing short of stupid. Nintendo really needs to make sure 2006 doesn't happen again. And I suspect they have worries it could due to the production problems we've heard of.
Was waiting for NewEgg, but when I read this thread last night I put in a pre-order with Best Buy.
Glad I did.
Trevelyan9999
Banned
Doesn't Microsoft already have SmartGlass to use to persuade consumers into thinking it's the same as the Wii U Gamepad? The average consumer may not know.
I'm also not so sure if they will be quick to copy the second screen option, look what happened with the DS/3DS, no one copied them as far as I know....
grimshawish
Banned
Based on the price of the gamepad am doubting this move; without some seriously reduced specs to what people expect. I do think a WiiU with more CPU allowing more Pads at once would be brilliant, but the prices will need a full gen to be reasonable.
Also its not bad for the industry if this is what customers want. Its just bad for you.
Still WiiU allows non-touch control anyway.
metalslimer
Member
As bad as the industry has been doing there is no way any console selling would be bad for the industry. Actually even if its not implemented like on Wii U touchscreens coming to consoles is just a natural progression of the last decade of technology.
Flame Lord
Member
I don't see how that matters. The Wii sold like that because even grannies wanted to get a taste of the motion controls. How many people are really going to storm stores because they have a tablet controller?
Snapshot King
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Just walked into my local futureshop and pre-ordered the deluxe version. Only 13th in line too, looks pretty guaranteed. Same place got 56 wiis back in the day in ADDITION to preorders.
Colonel Mustard
Banned
You won't have tom worry about that.
Looks like I'll get the Gamestop 'Big Boy' bundle. I was going to get ZombiU, Assassins Creed and a headset anyway.
anothercreativename
Banned
I just preordered in store from best buy. Even though they are sold out online it looks like the stores are still good to go!
I mean everything I say even when it's crazy.
I don't think calling out Nintendo on creating artificial scarcity is crazy though, and I don't think pre ordering 6 wii Us and different places to Ebay them is crazy either.
Dion Blaster
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Unless you really want black I would get the basic bundle. Save the extra money for a better game and an external hard drive.
shadyspace
Banned
so who's still doing online preorders and who only charges when it ships.
The only thing that's swaying me towards the black bundle is that points program for digital games.
It's only $50 more, and you get the points program in addition to the mehness of Nintendoland and the stands. Plus I want as much internal storage as I can have, it'll be much faster than an external drive. I see absolutely no reason to ever get the basic bundle.
KojiKnight
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That's a misconception. The internal flash storage is likely just a soldered on SD card, not highspeed flash + a beefy SSD controller. The way things are shaping up, all drives are going to be about the same speed sans access time, which will be the same for any other flash based device (SD or USB flash drive)
kmart and sears are the same retailer so if you're having trouble at one...
Count Dookkake
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yes, sears is giving me an error.. Target deluxe sold out...Kmart is working fine...
Fox Mulder
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MS and Sony won't say shit if the rumors about a 2014 launch are true. The best they can do is drop the prices on their consoles and hype holiday releases.
anothercreativename
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It matters because of the exact point you just made. The graphics on the Wii were nothing compared to the ps360 but everyone even grannies still wanted one. Not one person said "I want a Wii because of the wonderful graphics it can produce". Why would it be any different this time around with the Wii U? Who cares if it's not a "full generation" leap in graphics when being compared to the ps360? I know a select few people do but, once again, look at the Wii. 100 million people at one point decided to get a Wii and their decision had nothing to do with the system specs.
eudaemonic
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But... but... if I post my bias on the Internet enough times it'll become true!! For everyone!!!
This morning I went to a further away Electronics Boutique (EB Store) in Victoria, Canada... I got my deluxe Wii-U preordered with the $50 down payment
I asked the clerk working there if there had been previous reservations for the Wii-U
She said I was the first since its announcement
Either the thing is not that popular yet or people are choosing to preorder via different places and methods
Probably the latter more likely
I asked the clerk working there if there had been previous reservations for the Wii-U
She said I was the first since its announcement
Either the thing is not that popular yet or people are choosing to preorder via different places and methods
Probably the latter more likely
gamergirly
Member
I used my monthly student lab check to pay for the Wii. Was enough to get the Wii and one game, Zelda: Twilight Princess at the time
Barack Lesnar
Banned
This % off for the future points program sounds scammy, like when they try to sell you extra warranties at the register. If I bought the $350 I'd basically be lighting fire to 50 bucks because Nintendoland looks really bad. The $300 SKU is the one to get imo. You can spend that 50 bucks on a much better game and all you really lose out on is internal storage which you can upgrade later on anyway for really cheap. This isn't a 360 tard pack situation, the $300 sku is good.
Freyjadour
Member
False shortage fueling hype craze for a new console? Unheard of.
shadyspace
Banned
Went through Toys R Us due to lack of options. How reliable are they with preorder stock?