The Official North American Retail Musing Thread

[SaviorX]

radioioRobert said:

SaviorX said: I was checking all over the web about it yesterday, and unless I was reading it wrong, The Conduit was completely sold out....in my state. I checked Gamestop.com for availability according to my zip code and there were no new copies available. There are today. Walmart.com didn't sell anything according to what I read yesterday of The Conduit. No reader ratings or reviews. However, the ship date was 6/29 over there, so that may be why. Best Buy had TC on back order. I don't know if that is selling out or a delayed order. KB Toys is out of business....so I searched that for nothing lol I'll go with underestimation of demand. Same thing as the Wii version of Call of Duty: World ay War

Most GameStops just got it yesterday, and each store's inventory doesn't update to the GS website until the end of the night. So today would be the first day it showed as available at locations online. So no sell out. But I do think about 80-100k first week sales are possible.

Good explanation. Because I entered several different zip codes from diferent states to make sure and got the exact same results and I knew something was seriously off.

 

As long as the combined 1st week sales (NA/EU) are somewhere around 100k, I'll be happy. Wii games that reach somewhere near that point 1st week often thrive on the marketplace. NA will probably have 65k first week or something.