Nintendo: 1.2 million hardware units sold, 400,000 Wii U

[Euphoria14]

BlkPaladin said:

Euphoria14 said:

That's the thing though. They claimed sell outs, then had more for Black Friday (4 days later), claim sellouts again and have more in stores 4 days later? Many were even able to find WiiU consoles the day after Black Friday.

If there are indeed shortages I think they may be intentionally undershipping, especially since they supposedly had 500k worth of preorders at Gamestop alone.

Wii experienced shortages after 600k worth of sales for the first week in the US and I don't think they expected the level of demand it got. It also had people camping outside of stores in the freezing cold just to try and nab one.

Here you can just walk into your local store and pick one up.

People have been finding that the websites say they have them. But when they call/go to the stores they are out, the systems don't work very well. I remember looking for an item on Target.com that said they had the item in stock. Went there and the person I spoke to said that item hasn't been in stock for weeks.

It all depends on how often those sites are updated.

Walmart updates daily, but the update goes through right after midnight, so it is highly possible for the site's showing to not reflect reality. It's just that here on Long Island it isn't that difficult to find them at Walmart. Granted I haven't been to Bestbuy or Target since they are further away and I am not wasting gas just to check.