Possible low first week Punchout!! numbers? *Anecdotal*

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Zucas said:

Max King of the Wild said:
is the manager an idiot? if i was managing those stores id at least order 1.5 times as many preorders... and if i knew it was common for the other stores to only order enough for pre orders id order 2.5 times as many pre orders. that way everyone would be like 'this gamestop always carries my games' and they wouldnt even bother looking at the others and i would make those stores look bad

 

Mangers do not set the number of pre orders.  They can get reserves of copies of games at stores but once again that's about being a salesman.  It is corporate who buys a number of copies from the distributor of the game.  Managers have nothing to do with this. 

 

Now whether they over shipped or under shipped has to do with how much the retailer buys.  If they don't buy enough then they underestimated the appeal of the game.  Usually, they don't do this, but it happens.  From what I've heard, apparently they might have under bought Punch Out.  Which is surprising considering it's a Nintendo game but oh well. 

However, I think the game will sell though it's first shipments quite easily and be a pretty big summer title for the Wii.  It is the biggest release it's had so far this year and should sell like it.

 

After Excitebots, can you blame them?