wow 250k just for gamestop. I figured ~500k for NA launch overall... but if Gamestop is 250k, then Walmart has to be >250k. Then you still have Bestbuy, Target, ToysRUs, Sears/Kmart, and that's just the pre-orders. What about the units that will be available on launch day for those that line up?

If they only plan on selling 5.5m from Nov18th to March31, then I can't see them having more than 3.5m avail for 2012. Then 2m for Q1 2013.

So, how would they support each territory? 1.5m NA, 1m EU, 1m Japan? 1m at launch for NA? Seems too low if Gamestop is getting 25% of that.

I'm just thinking out loud here, what do you all think?

riderz13371 said: nuckles87 said: forest-spirit said: 250k on the waiting list? That's decent I guess. That's more then half the total number of Wii's sold in the US in its launch month. Given that these aren't pre-orders, but people who couldn't GET pre-orders, that's pretty damn good. The Wii is dead. Not much of a proud accomplishment to sell more than a Wii even if it was counting it for the entire month. No offence to Nintendo fans

He's comparing to Wii's launch month, not it's last month.

forest-spirit said: riderz13371 said: nuckles87 said: forest-spirit said: 250k on the waiting list? That's decent I guess. That's more then half the total number of Wii's sold in the US in its launch month. Given that these aren't pre-orders, but people who couldn't GET pre-orders, that's pretty damn good. The Wii is dead. Not much of a proud accomplishment to sell more than a Wii even if it was counting it for the entire month. No offence to Nintendo fans He's comparing to Wii's launch month, not it's last month.

Ohh woops I completely read that wrong. Thanks for not bashing me lol. My mistake.

riderz13371 said: nuckles87 said: forest-spirit said: 250k on the waiting list? That's decent I guess. That's more then half the total number of Wii's sold in the US in its launch month. Given that these aren't pre-orders, but people who couldn't GET pre-orders, that's pretty damn good. The Wii is dead. Not much of a proud accomplishment to sell more than a Wii even if it was counting it for the entire month. No offence to Nintendo fans

What? Did you read what he even typed? You wanted to bash the Wii bad here didn't you?

phenom08 said: riderz13371 said: nuckles87 said: forest-spirit said: 250k on the waiting list? That's decent I guess. That's more then half the total number of Wii's sold in the US in its launch month. Given that these aren't pre-orders, but people who couldn't GET pre-orders, that's pretty damn good. The Wii is dead. Not much of a proud accomplishment to sell more than a Wii even if it was counting it for the entire month. No offence to Nintendo fans What? Did you read what he even typed? You wanted to bash the Wii bad here didn't you?

Read my post thats right on top of yours....-.-

riderz13371 said: phenom08 said: riderz13371 said: nuckles87 said: forest-spirit said: 250k on the waiting list? That's decent I guess. That's more then half the total number of Wii's sold in the US in its launch month. Given that these aren't pre-orders, but people who couldn't GET pre-orders, that's pretty damn good. The Wii is dead. Not much of a proud accomplishment to sell more than a Wii even if it was counting it for the entire month. No offence to Nintendo fans What? Did you read what he even typed? You wanted to bash the Wii bad here didn't you? Read my post thats right on top of yours....-.-

I did, I was just letting you know I saw what you did there.

Said the same thing. Honestly, I expect Nintendo to ship more units in Europe. Nintendo earns more profit from selling hardware + software over there. But yeah its crazy, 250k on waiting list... -_- I'm glad I have my 3 pre-ordered lol

"- 3DS losses improved in the second quarter"

They need to release more vidja gamez outside Japan for 3DS. I hadn't got anything to play for a while since all the 3rd parties titles are crappy.

It looks like Wii U is pretty much guaranteed to be sold out for its first year.