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Did you spot WiiUs on shelves?

Yes 92 50.27%
 
No 47 25.68%
 
I live on Pluto 44 24.04%
 
Total:183

I already told this story elsewhere but it seems to be more fitting here.

I was in a MediaMarkt in Berlin on Monday and they had some (black and white). I didn't really count them though.



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I periodically see the Wii U in stock at a variety of stores ... If I was to put numbers on it, I would say that about 20% of the time I will see a couple Wii U system's in display cases. So far, every Wii U system I have seen "out in the wild" has been the White basic system.

My guess is that (for the most part) Nintendo's supply is falling a little behind demand, more-so with the Black premium bundle, and the systems are not really staying around in one place for too long. If you really wanted to buy the White Wii U I suspect that you could probably find one within a couple hours of shopping if you were looking mid-week and didn't mind going to 5 or 10 stores (with Christmas shopping happening, I doubt you would find one on the Weekend); with the Black Wii U I suspect you would have to get to a store within a few hours of them getting a shipment.



At EBgames Canada (Gamestop) in my city (about 200k population), they had 3 black and 3 white on the shelves today. Dunno if they had more in the backstore though.



Here's the situation in Paris, 13th district today at 1 pm (electronics shop)

In the video games shop two floors above, there were 4 or 5 Deluxe on display.



ryuzaki57 said:

Here's the situation in Paris, 13th district today at 1 pm (electronics shop)

In the video games shop two floors above, there were 4 or 5 Deluxe on display.

And the only customer look at the PS3s.



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At a Best Buy in Tucson they had WiiU's but I didn't see one on demo. They had 3 Xbox 360 demo stations, with one just Dance Central with Kinect.

At a GameStop in Los Angeles they had the WiiU on demo and what looked like several of them stacked. I played the demo a bit and so did other people coming into the store.



 

Really not sure I see any point of Consol over PC's since Kinect, Wii and other alternative ways to play have been abandoned. 

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