Wii U back in stock at GameStop

AniHawk said:
a poorly advertised system with no clear vision at launch, or major support for the next year has trouble selling stock shortly after launch? i've had this dream before.
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Troll bait? Troll bait.

impact said:
At least Vita has an OLED :(
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You seriously think that is a good thing?

HeroR said:
Nintendo also purposely never told us about games coming next year, so it is dismissive to say that they have no major support for next year since we do not know either way.
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Aliens: Colonial Marines, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Pikmin 3, Rayman Legends, The Wonderful 101 among others.

Also incoming: Super Smash Bros., Zelda, Bayonetta 2 and some more.

We know something.
 
grimshawish said:
Meanwhile the numbers to look for are:
- Wii 2006November Launch = 500k
- 360 2005 November Launch = 326k
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I think that's a bit disingenuous. Both of those consoles had restricted supply with people scrambling all over themselves to get one. The demand was extremely high, which led to a ton of sales down the road.

With the Wii U, they're not capped at 500k sales despite 5000k people actually wanting one. When looking at Wii and 360 launch sales, you had to take into account that they were all sold and would continue to sell so long as they got into stores. A real way to look at the Wii U launch numbers will simply be to look at the numbers.

I do agree with you that in stock != not selling well though.
 
HeroR said:
How so? We do not even have the full picture of the WiiU so how can we say with certainty that nothing is the same and why should everything be the same. Despite the names, the Wii and the WiiU are different systems with a different set of challenges and advantages. We cannot exactly copy and paste the Wii situation with the WiiU.
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Haha what? Wait, that's what I was trying to say. I thought you were trying to say the blueprint of the Wii lets us deduce what is going on with the Wii U which isn't the case. If that's what you were saying then in a round about way we agree
 
Oersted said:
Troll bait? Troll bait.



You seriously think that is a good thing?



Aliens: Colonial Marines, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Pikmin 3, Rayman Legends, The Wonderful 101 among others.

Also incoming: Super Smash Bros., Zelda, Bayonetta 2 and some more.

We know something.
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Let me make myself clear. When I said we know little, I mean we do not know the WiiU's entire next year line up. People are just making the assumption that the WiiU has poor to little support because of what has been announce so far.

I was also talking specifically about third-party support. As a big fan of Nintendo's first party, I know these games are coming so I do not have to be told that they are. I can understand people being skeptical about any big third-party support, but like I said, I don't think third-parties can afford to ignore an entire system.

On that note, I wish they would say when Bayonetta 2 is coming out. I have heard nothing but good things about that game and hope that the sequel is equally as good. I also hope that the first game gets release the WiiU for those who missed it on the 360 and the PS3.
 
CronoShot said:
Am I the only one kind of excited by the Wii U potentially not selling well as Nintendo hoped?

Obviously I don't want it to sell horribly, but desperate Nintendo is the best Nintendo. I think the 3DS already has a better first party lineup than the DS.
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you are alone in this, I want that userbase that 3rd Parties are looking for to continue support for this thing. Any 3DS like slow start would be really bad for a home console, it would not recover. Nintendo would be in a world of hurt.
 
BruceLeeRoy said:
Haha what? Wait, that's what I was trying to say. I thought you were trying to say the blueprint of the Wii lets us deduce what is going on with the Wii U which isn't the case. If that's what you were saying then in a round about way we agree
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I see, no problem. I guess my post was a little confusion. No, the Nintendo does not have the blueprint for the WiiU's success, which is why I say it is unfair to write off the WiiU at this stage. Even if the WiiU does have a so-so launch and an okay Christmas, Nintendo still have time to turn things around.

After all, going by the 360s first year, who would have thought that is would had done so well.
 
Smiles and Cries said:
you are alone in this, I want that userbase that 3rd Parties are looking for to continue support for this thing. Any 3DS like slow start would be really bad for a home console, it would not recover. Nintendo would be in a world of hurt.
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The PS3 had a pretty poor start.
 
HeroR said:
I see, no problem. I guess my post was a little confusion. No, the Nintendo does not have the blueprint for the WiiU's success, which is why I say it is unfair to write off the WiiU at this stage. Even if the WiiU does have a so-so launch and an okay Christmas, Nintendo still have time to turn things around.

After all, going by the 360s first year, who would have thought that is would had done so well.
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Okay yeah we agree
 
Smiles and Cries said:
you are alone in this, I want that userbase that 3rd Parties are looking for to continue support for this thing. Any 3DS like slow start would be really bad for a home console, it would not recover. Nintendo would be in a world of hurt.
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I want it to sell well enough for Nintendo to make a very comfortable profit, but I don't want Nintendo's strategy to be so successful that everyone is forced to follow it. I do not want tiny increments every five years, I want to spend ~$400 on a console that pushes graphics that I couldn't imagine the year before. It seems like they've made an even smaller leap this gen (over PS3/360) than they did last gen. I can't blame them at all, because it worked out extremely well. I just don't want this slow moving business to become the norm.

I also can't imagine a huge amount of third party support (i.e. all three platforms getting the same games outside of first party) unless the Wii U is so successful that it becomes the platform of origin, severely dragging down what could be otherwise. There is a lot of room for third parties to port PS3/360 games to the Wii U (past and present) for people who will only buy Nintendo and for gamepad integration though- this could go on for years.

I want the thing to do well and I can not wait to dig into HD Zelda, or the first 3D/HD Mario. I'm just imagining this hell where it's successful enough that console development gets stuck on 360/PS3/Wii U instead of moving forward.

I want the Wii U to be an HD first party Nintendo box (including remakes) with a few interesting/unique experiences sprinkled in each year. That's very much worth owning alongside one of what will inevitably become the next gen twins.
 
Just came back from target, there were two left from a display and a cart that was tethered to the display. Also some employees were telling people that they were selling their wii Us for half of after 4am. I am not sure how reliable that was but it was said. BTW this is Chicagoland in Broadview.
 
Previous NPD November launches for comparison:

Xbox (2001) 720,000
Gamecube (2001) 660,000
Nintendo DS (2004) 370,000
Xbox 360 (2005) 326,000
PlayStation 3 (2006) 197,000
Wii (2006) 476,000
 
This system will have such a curious first year, year and a half. Launch is pretty meaningless but even as someone who doesn't follow sales I'm interested to see what kind of momentum they hit. Just depends how the tablet thing catches on and if they can hook a greater mass with a piece of software that has the Wii Sports-like effect in a much more crowded landscape.

I dont think the standard franchise refreshes will be enough to carry it too terribly far, it'll never bomb or anything, but I just mean the ol 50 million+ kinda stuff, not on the backs of geeks like a good chunk of us who just buy it for 5-6~ Nintendo games across it's lifespan. Who knows though, will be a really interesting generation.
 
Zek said:
The PS3 had a pretty poor start.
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the ps3 was the expected winner before the generation even started. the plan was: make ps3-exclusives, and maybe 360 games on the side. when sony shit the bed, it shifted to games for 360 and ps3.

the best the wii u might do is convince niche developers in japan that their console is the only one in the game. western publishers aside from ubisoft don't care.
 
lunchwithyuzo said:
Previous NPD November launches for comparison:

Xbox (2001) 720,000
Gamecube (2001) 660,000
Nintendo DS (2004) 370,000
Xbox 360 (2005) 326,000
PlayStation 3 (2006) 197,000
Wii (2006) 476,000
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interesting to revisit this list in a few weeks to see where the Wii U charts, so I guess we should expect low numbers because of this trend
 
Smiles and Cries said:
interesting to revisit this list in a few weeks to see where the Wii U charts, so I guess we should expect low numbers because of this trend
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You have to remember that all those consoles were supple constrain, especially the PS3, so they could not have sold more.

What I do find interesting is that Nintendo never gave a launch number. Usually, we can guess how much an system sold based on if the launch supple was completely sold out. We just know that the WiiU's launch numbers were higher than 500,000. Not much to go on.
 
Just got to best buy and Wii U's are just laying around still. I expected them to be gone by now. Can't complain about a good supply I guess....
 
witness said:
Just got to best buy and Wii U's are just laying around still. I expected them to be gone by now. Can't complain about a good supply I guess....
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Same thing at my local target. A entire case full hanging out. Watched a lot of people walk up to it, look it over, then move on. The PS3 and 360 bundle piles were gone pretty quickly, and they were pretty big piles.
 
Concept17 said:
Same thing at my local target. A entire case full hanging out. Watched a lot of people walk up to it, look it over, then move on. The PS3 and 360 bundle piles were gone pretty quickly, and they were pretty big piles.
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A lot of the people went to the stores just to pick up those bundles so those are supposed to go fast.
 
There is a lot of fud going on here with someone seeing units in store apparently translating to 'trouble selling out at launch' within 2 posts.

I've been trying fairly hard to buy a WiiU and have been unsuccessful despite 'seeing' some in stores 3 times now.

My local neighborhood game store had some on shelf on launch day but they were for pre-orders, as of today they still have to fill preorders and expect to have units available around the 4th shipment or so. Saw some at target Wednesday morning because the stock finder suggested I go check it out. They were all gone by the time I got to the front of the line. Today, the toys r us that I've been to unsuccessfully a few times this week suddenly had units when they opened at 8PM. The line was out the door, however. This is in LA btw.

In contrast, I walked into 1 store on the wii launch day and was able to buy one, although I was in europe at the time.

The console is apparently being restocked rather frequently but from what I've been seeing, it's not meeting demand in this city yet.
 
witness said:
Just got to best buy and Wii U's are just laying around still. I expected them to be gone by now. Can't complain about a good supply I guess....
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Concept17 said:
Same thing at my local target. A entire case full hanging out. Watched a lot of people walk up to it, look it over, then move on. The PS3 and 360 bundle piles were gone pretty quickly, and they were pretty big piles.
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Wow. Not sounding good.
 
Concept17 said:
Watched a lot of people walk up to it, look it over, then move on.
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I'm not drunk on Wii-U hotness, but this sounds like me with regards to anything.

I mean, people look a lot at things they don't buy. I really can't help but feel as if that doesn't indicate anything.
 
Second said:
I'm glad Nintendo sent out so many WiiU's.

This means scalpers getting owned. Totally OK with that.
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Yep.

Man...the face I did when I saw the $2,999 Deluxe on Ebay during launch day. At this point it's not just making some money off people, it's mocking them.
 
Bought the last two at my Target. Best Buy opened up at midnight and had three, but were quickly gone.



I bought the $300 packs....did I make a terrible mistake?
 
lunchwithyuzo said:
Previous NPD November launches for comparison:

Xbox (2001) 720,000
Gamecube (2001) 660,000
Nintendo DS (2004) 370,000
Xbox 360 (2005) 326,000
PlayStation 3 (2006) 197,000
Wii (2006) 476,000
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lunchwithyuzo said:
Previous NPD November launches for comparison:

Xbox (2001) 720,000
Gamecube (2001) 660,000
Nintendo DS (2004) 370,000
Xbox 360 (2005) 326,000
PlayStation 3 (2006) 197,000
Wii (2006) 476,000
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lunchwithyuzo said:
Previous NPD November launches for comparison:
Xbox (2001) 720,000
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lunchwithyuzo said:
Xbox 720
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Don't recall the GBA being sold out for a while after launch. Wii U (and PS480) would be happy as a clam to be selling "only" as good as the not-sold-out GBA. Just saying, sellouts were not an indicator of long-term success before, so not sure why it'd make a difference now. :lol

All that said, I'm expecting a "better than 2006 360" first year in 2013 for Wii U, which isn't really saying much.
 
I went to Walmart, Target, and Best Buy tonight and they were all out of Wii-U's. Granted, Best Buy was the only one I got to as it was opening, and they only had 2 of each which I guess were grabbed up pretty quick. Walmart and Target I went to 2 hours after they opened, but they were cleaned out. I'm not dying to buy one, but if I come across one I'd get it. First Nintendo console I haven't gotten on day one.
 
Concept17 said:
Same thing at my local target. A entire case full hanging out. Watched a lot of people walk up to it, look it over, then move on. The PS3 and 360 bundle piles were gone pretty quickly, and they were pretty big piles.
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TerminalDogma said:
I went to Walmart, Target, and Best Buy tonight and they were all out of Wii-U's. Granted, Best Buy was the only one I got to as it was opening, and they only had 2 of each which I guess were grabbed up pretty quick. Walmart and Target I went to 2 hours after they opened, but they were cleaned out. I'm not dying to buy one, but if I come across one I'd get it. First Nintendo console I haven't gotten on day one.
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Who should I believe????? Conflicted anecdotal evidence...I never...
 
I like some people's logic.

"I saw Wii U in the WILD!.. It must be selling like shit"

It's hard to find in some places.
 
Well, i went to 3 stores tonight and didn't find a single deluxe Wii U (best buy, wal-mart and target), but I did see 2 basic models out in the wild, annoying.
 
Went to a Bestbuy tonight and when I was in line waiting to check out there was a table with at least 12 WiiU's on it. About half and half on the model. Was pretty shocked no one was buying them.
 
I have seen many WiiUs on the shelf in many stores but it's deceiving. When I asked store managers how it seems to be selling they said their online sales numbers are actually very high, whereas in-store sales are average so far. I think this is due to gas prices though; around here gas is around 3.80/g and falling, and I'd imagine as it gets lower the WiiU sales numbers will get higher.
 
gkryhewy said:
Aren't you taking a loss or near-loss on that after considering sales tax and ebay/paypal fees?

EDIT: oh, you sly dog (previous post referred to you selling a deluxe on ebay for 435)
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Haha. Yeah well. :p

I'm not sure what Ebay fees are, but I live in Oregon so there was no sales tax. If shipping is the 35 or so that he is paying, I'll net 85 in profit before Ebay fees. That's not quite what I was looking to make, but it's good enough. I was just hoping to cover the cost of my two launch games that wound up being 2 and 1/2 because of Target.

Still. Nobody bid on the damn thing until an hour before the auction ended. I'm glad I started it at 350.
 
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