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Locknuts on 13 November 2013
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JWeinCom said:
BlowoverKing said:
The Best Buy I work at ordered way too many consoles lol we've been sitting on like 15+ Mario Wii U's since they were released. We actually have more stock of Wii U than any other console. But honestly whoever orders stock for my store is retarded. We will get way to many copies of a game like Remember Me but then a popular game comes out Batman we get hardly any copies.


Same here.  We ordered a LOT of the Zelda systems which haven't been selling.  On the other hand, we had less of the Mario Bundles, which have been selling at a rather quick pace.  We also still have some Nintendo Land bundles which had been selling OK, but once the Mario and Lugi came out, have understandably stopped moving.

Keep in mind, there is usually nobody ordering games.  The system is largely automated or determined at the district level rather than the store level, and a lot of it is based on volume of sales,preorders,  availability, and so forth.  Sales support managers have some say over inventory, but usually not that much to my understanding.  If you got 15 Mario Wii Us that didn't sell, and you have more Wii Us in stock than other consoles, then you're likely in a lower volume store.  So, when dealing with a game like Batman which is expected to sell a lot, it might be worthwhile to focus the distribution on other stores.  When a game like Remember Me comes out and sell outs are likely not going to be an issue,  Of course, that's just my best guess.  It could also just be someone at some job down the line is an idiot, which is definitely a very distinct possibility.


But the long and short of this whole thing is that judging the Wii U's retail relationship by one EB Games or Best Buy or whatever is silly. 

Thought about this and you're right so I did a little investigating. Looks like the bundle is on the second page of bestsellers for gamestop.com and appears to be sold out at target.com. It's on the first page of bestsellers at walmart.com & bestbuy.com. That's a pretty good sample so I think it could do fine (at least in NA) this Christmas. Assuming of course that demand in online stores is representative of overall demand.