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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......

JEMC on 15 November 2012

I wonder how many of those reserves are for NintendoLand, for those who couldn't preorder the Premium console.

Anyway, very nice numbers, (although they are still far from the numbers Iwata want, those 4.4 games per console)



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melbye on 15 November 2012
BenVTrigger said:
spurgeonryan said:
CCFanboy said:
I recall hearing amazon actually ran out of preorders for mario. I have preordered 5 games. I was hoping ninja gaiden 3 would make launch but no such luck :(

I still haven't preordered aliens, pikmin, monster hunter, need for speed or bayonetta 2 yet. Nintendo are going to bleed me dry with this.


That is strange. Especially since IGN already reviewed it.


Dont know what hes talking about it is a launch title


Not if he is in Europe

Myself i have pre-ordered 4 not including ZombiU which is bundeled



Viper1 on 15 November 2012
JEMC said:

I wonder how many of those reserves are for NintendoLand, for those who couldn't preorder the Premium console.

Anyway, very nice numbers, (although they are still far from the numbers Iwata want, those 4.4 games per console)

Those are shipment figures Iwata is talking about, not consumer sales figures.



The rEVOLution is not being televised

dark_gh0st_b0y on 15 November 2012

hopefully it's true, obviously due to hardcora game sales, casual Nintendo games need time to sell usually!

maybe this will help Rockstar to port GTA V on WiiU with some cool gameplay, because GTA V can change the whole generation flow if it appears on WiiU

(like GTA IV could prevent at least a respectabe part from the core from leaving the Wii....)



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JEMC on 15 November 2012
Viper1 said:
JEMC said:

I wonder how many of those reserves are for NintendoLand, for those who couldn't preorder the Premium console.

Anyway, very nice numbers, (although they are still far from the numbers Iwata want, those 4.4 games per console)

Those are shipment figures Iwata is talking about, not consumer sales figures.

I know, but if retailers don't see a high enough demand they won't ask for more shipments and, to be honest, it will be very hard to reach those numbers.

I think those numbers are a best case scenario rather than what they think will happen.



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Trunkin on 15 November 2012

That's kind of surprising. Makes me wonder what the sales will be once the console finally launches.



Vinniegambini on 15 November 2012
JEMC said:
Viper1 said:
JEMC said:

I wonder how many of those reserves are for NintendoLand, for those who couldn't preorder the Premium console.

Anyway, very nice numbers, (although they are still far from the numbers Iwata want, those 4.4 games per console)

Those are shipment figures Iwata is talking about, not consumer sales figures.

I know, but if retailers don't see a high enough demand they won't ask for more shipments and, to be honest, it will be very hard to reach those numbers.

I think those numbers are a best case scenario rather than what they think will happen.

I think the 4.4 games per console will be easily reached. I mean Lego City GTA, Pikmin 3, Aliens and Monster Hunter are all coming in Q1 2013. Those are all million sellers (maybe exception Aliens) Or am I just a little too optimistic? :(



Viper1 on 15 November 2012
JEMC said:
Viper1 said:
JEMC said:

I wonder how many of those reserves are for NintendoLand, for those who couldn't preorder the Premium console.

Anyway, very nice numbers, (although they are still far from the numbers Iwata want, those 4.4 games per console)

Those are shipment figures Iwata is talking about, not consumer sales figures.

I know, but if retailers don't see a high enough demand they won't ask for more shipments and, to be honest, it will be very hard to reach those numbers.

I think those numbers are a best case scenario rather than what they think will happen.

They'll come close enough that retailers will continue ordering.

You also have to consider that a launch will have the absolute lowest softare to hardware sales ratio a console will ever see.   it only grows from then on.



The rEVOLution is not being televised

BlkPaladin on 15 November 2012

If its 500k just for Gamestop hopefully they have a lot more systems ready (happily they are a head of projection according another post. Plus if a lot of them are deluxe they may be holding off reserving games to buy them on the eShop to start gaining credit. I know that is what I'm going to do. If I find out which 3rd party games are going to be on the eShop will change what my brother will buy in store when he picks the console up. And this will affect the tie in ratio at least what we know initially because Nintendo has been hesitant to release their figures so far for the eShop. But if it does great I expect they will announce it in some way.



Vinniegambini on 15 November 2012
Viper1 said:
JEMC said:
Viper1 said:
JEMC said:

I wonder how many of those reserves are for NintendoLand, for those who couldn't preorder the Premium console.

Anyway, very nice numbers, (although they are still far from the numbers Iwata want, those 4.4 games per console)

Those are shipment figures Iwata is talking about, not consumer sales figures.

I know, but if retailers don't see a high enough demand they won't ask for more shipments and, to be honest, it will be very hard to reach those numbers.

I think those numbers are a best case scenario rather than what they think will happen.

They'll come close enough that retailers will continue ordering.

You also have to consider that a launch will have the absolute lowest softare to hardware sales ratio a console will ever see.   it only grows from then on.

That's true. I'm thinking at launch people will most likely get Mario U and another title. But you are right, from here on forth the software ration will only increase! Did you pre-order a Wii U?