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......

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osed125 said:

Viper1 said:

spurgeonryan said:
Seems reallly low actually. How many wii's were pre-ordered back in the day?

Keep in mind that thesea re pre-orders just from GameStop.

Include other retailers and we could be looking at damn near 1 million units on launch day.

Can't imagine being that many consoles on day 1. I sure hope it is, but it seems unreal...

Gamestop makes up about half of the market in the US.   If they have 500k in pre-orders (provided pre-orders and allottmen are 1:1), then it's not beyond the math to suggest that total.

I agree it seems too much.   But that's also why I jumped on Spurgeonryan for suggesting it was low.