| Veknoid_Outcast said: I thought Wii U had 500,000 pre-orders at GameStop alone. What am I missing? |
Nintendo expects to produce 5.5 million Wii U's total for global availability by March 2013
500k of those are allotted to GameStop.... not for the launch week but until March 2013
So 400k sold in first week across all US retailers sounds right to me, each week will have more and it will continue to sell into Christmas and probably into the next year if it follows the pattern of the Wii.
Major retailer like Amazon didn't even get any Wii U's (they have some pissy issue with Nintendo they need to resolve).
What surprises me is that the 3DS sales are lower than last year. Significantly lower... but it may be all the Nintendo fan dollars going to Wii U. It's very clear that finite amount of money exists with each fan base and they tend to spend on their gaming platform of choice over any other. The casuals are the swing voters which is why game companies try to get them to buy the system (easier to convert to Nintendo - get em young and hook em for life).
