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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - GameStop says consumers have reserved 1.2 million Wii U titles, or double the number of Wii games in 2006! Gamasutra says 2.4 games per console reservation......

sales2099 on 15 November 2012

Maybe it has something to do with WiiU actually having core appeal games......



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UncleScrooge on 15 November 2012

Both are right... Customers preordered 1.2 million games, which equals 2.4 games per console... now the question is: Does that include Nintendo Land or not?



Max King of the Wild on 15 November 2012
UncleScrooge said:
Both are right... Customers preordered 1.2 million games, which equals 2.4 games per console... now the question is: Does that include Nintendo Land or not?



If nintendoland is the equivalent to wii sports you wouldnt be able to reserve it...

Spurge - it would be 500k consoles



UncleScrooge on 15 November 2012
spurgeonryan said:
UncleScrooge said:
Both are right... Customers preordered 1.2 million games, which equals 2.4 games per console... now the question is: Does that include Nintendo Land or not?


So with your math skillz, how many consoles would that be?


500k x 2.4 = 1.2 million  



Viper1 on 15 November 2012
spurgeonryan said:

GameStop says consumers have reserved 1.2 million Wii U titles, or double the number of Wii games in 2006. Have you reserved any?

 

Yeah it is just a twitter post. But that is good. Just from gamestop alone!

 

spurgeonryan said:

GameStop says that there are 2.4 Wii U game reservations per console reservation, which is more than double what they saw with original Wii.

Hmmm...I wonder which twitter feed is correct? Anyone have a link to where they are getting this stuff?



So that means they have 500,000 Wii U pre-orders?



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Vinniegambini on 15 November 2012

Nintendo doomed right?..... ;)



UncleScrooge on 15 November 2012
Max King of the Wild said:
UncleScrooge said:
Both are right... Customers preordered 1.2 million games, which equals 2.4 games per console... now the question is: Does that include Nintendo Land or not?



If nintendoland is the equivalent to wii sports you wouldnt be able to reserve it...

Spurge - it would be 500k consoles


It's not as you can get the console without Nintendo Land. But Gamasutras wording makes that likely: I doubt the Wii had less than 1.2 games reserved per console including Wii Sports. 



Vinniegambini on 15 November 2012
spurgeonryan said:
Seems reallly low actually. How many wii's were pre-ordered back in the day?


400,000 for launch if I remember correctly! :) 



Metrium on 15 November 2012

I personally rarely preorder a game unless it comes with preorder bonusses or unless it's a game i'm REALLY hyped about and wanna make sure I get on day 1 no matter how popular it is.

I reserved Batman:AC Armored edition alongside my Wii U, I figured that because I was already at the shop reserving a console, might aswell reserve a game I want. I plan on picking up ZombiU, NSMBU, and Darksiders2 eventualy, but I won't reserve those, when I'll be done with Batman and Nintendo Land I'll show up to the store and just pick up one of them depending on wich is available (alltho I seriously expect them to all be available at stores so I'll end up picking Zombi U most likely)



 

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Viper1 on 15 November 2012
spurgeonryan said:
Seems reallly low actually. How many wii's were pre-ordered back in the day?

Keep in mind that thesea re pre-orders just from GameStop.

Include other retailers and we could be looking at damn near 1 million units on launch day.



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