Report – 3DS pre-orders “outpacing Wii’s total number of advance orders,” says UK retail

[Buzzi]

megaman79 said:

Buzzi said:

I guess one country, even as big as UK is for Europe, is not a good indicator. But 3DS will have a massive launch, and what is more important, is that with many releases every month, it'll continue selling well for the whole year.

Its a great indicator for two reasons. One, its the most expensive price out of ALL regions right now (or was before the price drops at Aldi, etc), and Two, its not being promoted by only Nintendo games such as Mario (yes i know theres Mario in some promotional material, but considering its mostly third parties, its big news). I think its pretty evident that Nintendo have a technology thats interesting to both audiences.

As someone above you said, actually UK is the country with the lower price in Europe because of the price war. I Italy you just can't buy one for less than 250€ right now.

Surely everywhere the preorders are going well, especially in Americas since there's an official price. But UK is probably the country of Europe with higher preorder rates, we should wait some weeks before claiming a bigger launch than Wii's.