My local stores are just like this too. One of them is actually attached to a mall and the entrance from inside the mall has the Wii U at the front door (surprising) I went there the weekend Hyrule Warriors came out, there was a kid playing the Hyrule Warriors demo. There were no copies of Hyrule Warriors on the shelf, the game section/shelves looked similar to the OP's picture, depleted and only stocked with games like Just Dance, Bass Fishing, Assassin's Creed III and other random older games, nothing that would make you want to buy the system.
This is Nintendo's fault, their retail presence is terrible in almost every store. This isn't Best Buy's fault. Nintendo needs to fix this. A lot of time when games come out I have to ask a employee about it and they have to go in the back and dig it out, for some reason it doesn't go out on shelves. Nintendo needs to put more promotion for their upcoming titles and get retailers more interested. The PS4/XB1 sections are fully stocked on huge screen TVs and neatly organized with releases on the shelves on Day 1. I kinda get the feeling Nintendo is printing a conservative amount of copies of games hoping it can push people to digital (higher profits), but really it's killing the impulse buyers and word of mouth sales that advertising in-store can create.
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