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CCFanboy said:


That isn't straw grasping that is speaking from asking around and observing things. I have been talking to people about 3ds, vita and wii u you know. Funnily enough I have never seen such big lines as I did when I picked up my wii u on friday since wii came out. Not with ps3. Not with 3ds. Not with vita. The only big lines I have seen for game related stuff here lately is fifa or call of duty.

I've already said what I believe is going on here like 4 times already. The majority of demand came from germany and france so they shipped the majoirty there and are taking things slower here.

What I have observed here is people go nuts for i-(insert name here) and everything else sells slower. If a system launches next year at £425 mark my words, it is going to struggle more then 2007. I've asked around why the reason is they haven't picked vita and yeah there was one that said psp was too much like ps2. But the majority said money.


Out of curiosisty, how many have you asked?

From my own personal experience, the people outside or the hardcore (people like us that visit forums and talk about gaming) not many people are aware of the exsistence of the WiiU nevermind the release date. A few UK commercials have remedied that somewhat but without a major campaign it will start off slowly because the majority of people that play the Wii and would be interested in the WiiU are casual gamers (people who don't go to gaming sites).

This could explain the UK numbers, along with shortages, but like I said in the previous post the WiiU will be fine and we continue to gather momentum as the word starts to get out.



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pezus said:

The fact that you say you didn't see as big lines for PS3/3DS shows  how much that means. They both sold way more than Wii U at launch, so there had to have been larger lines on average.

Why do you think the majority of demand is coming from Germany and France? I've seen no indication of that.


I saw one of the shortages for france stories here.

http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=190683

The article I was actually looking for was about european preorders and germany eating it up and france wanting the most after that. But it was obvious germany was screaming for it since games and systems were shooting up the preorder charts. That is why I am asking ryu to confirm this about france. There was an article I found last month which said they were the most.

When the shortage for the uk was reported last month I was surprised. When spurgeon said it took longer for the uk it didn't surprise me in the slightest. We aren't buying gadgets like we used to. That is really why vita is selling so sluggishly. Not because it came out february. Not because wii u was made by nintendo and vita wasn't. People aren't being swayed by the prices of the system, memory cards or games.

SWORDF1SH I am asking all over the place. Everytime I go in shops, at the special group I attend, people I know who live in the uk online. I think for 2 days this is a good number. I have spoken to people who thought wii u was just a new version of the wii. So you are right there. But going off this it is stock shortages.

What people should focus on is how it selling in the rest of the world. The uk will pick itself up since things aren't selling much here anyway. I still think that if there were more shipments we would see higher numbers. It seems to be the stock at fault here.



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Wii U was sold ou tin most stores. each store had like only 500 units to spare after pre-orders



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MegaDrive08 said:
PlaystaionGamer said:
hold on.. when did it come out in the UK? i live in the UK and have seen nothing to do with the Wii U?


I'm confused are you been serious or sarcastic?


I'm being serious. I had no idea it had launched here! I went into my local blockbuster and they had about 6 WiiU games at the bottom of this huge games area and that's all I have seen to do with the wiiU anywhere. This is sad because both the WiiU and Vita deserve better in the UK



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SWORDF1SH said:

Hey CC. I made this for you lol.


A lot say it will fail. How much do you want a bet your wrong?



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bananaking21 said:
we need to stop these "we need to talk about this" threads


Seems to me to be a carry over from reddit. I never saw these posts on this site until reddit became popular. 



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CCFanboy said:
SWORDF1SH said:

Hey CC. I made this for you lol.


A lot say it will fail. How much do you want a bet your wrong?


I don't think it will fail.



SWORDF1SH said:


I don't think it will fail.


Ahh I see what your doing lol. Sorry it took me so long to catch on. I can never tell on forums >_>



One more thing to complete my year = senran kagura localization =D

Lets see its overall European sales first...