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Forums - Nintendo - Gamestop Fire emblem yadda yaddaUPDATE: Welp I was right it seems, they saw the shipment errors.

Otakumegane on 22 January 2013

So that's quite an interesting piece of news. The question is why? 

If Nintendo shipped too little again....

EDIT:Sry I forgot to post source. http://www.gamestop.com/nintendo-3ds/games/fire-emblem-awakening/106383



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_crazy_man_ on 22 January 2013

No source?

If so, glad I got mine in last week. O_o



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Otakumegane on 22 January 2013

I'm looking forward to the next pre-order chart



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NintendoPie on 22 January 2013

Oh, Nintendo. Why do you always have to under-ship things? Have more confidence!



Otakumegane on 22 January 2013
NintendoPie said:
Oh, Nintendo. Why do you always have to under-ship things? Have more confidence!


Calling it right now, they will undership Pokemon and the prices on ebay will skyrocket.



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SSJGohan3972 on 22 January 2013

Got mine in, also just finished Sacred Stones in preperation. February is gonna by Fire Emblem time for me!



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the_dengle on 22 January 2013

Those wondering why Nintendo might have undershipped, this could explain it:

 

 

Notice how as the years go up, the sales go down...

Of course, this is probably largely a marketing problem. NoA seems to be pushing Fire Emblem pretty hard, with 4 full-page ads in the latest Game Informer and a huge poster above the 3DS demo station in most GameStops I've been to, right alongside Luigi's Mansion. They certainly seem to want Awakening to sell well, and they probably shipped optimistically, but they may not have anticipated as much demand as they're seeing. I guess they figure if people REALLY want the game day 1, they can download it.



BenVTrigger on 22 January 2013

This is true

You can however still pre order the limited edition Fire Emblem 3DS console that comes with the game



radiantshadow92 on 22 January 2013

those son of a bitches i didnt pre order lol



Otakumegane on 22 January 2013
the_dengle said:

Those wondering why Nintendo might have undershipped, this could explain it:

 

 

Notice how as the years go up, the sales go down...

Of course, this is probably largely a marketing problem. NoA seems to be pushing Fire Emblem pretty hard, with 4 full-page ads in the latest Game Informer and a huge poster above the 3DS demo station in most GameStops I've been to, right alongside Luigi's Mansion. They certainly seem to want Awakening to sell well, and they probably shipped optimistically, but they may not have anticipated as much demand as they're seeing. I guess they figure if people REALLY want the game day 1, they can download it.


Hmm..makes sense, I wonder why they chose this particular title. They may be trying to appeal to the audience that played Brawl. Like how the 1st main FE game released after melee was the best selling one, they may be trying to repeat that success, maybe draw some more fans into the series.

In that regard they're doing a pretty good job.



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