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Brianna on 24 January 2008

Nintendo is underestimating this game...




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MaxwellGT2000 on 24 January 2008

I'd say this was the reason for the delay, there's not much you can do to a game in a extra week other then make more copies. And since demand is even HIGHER in America it makes sense they had to push back to fill preorder demand.



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Shadow)OS on 24 January 2008

I'm going to have to agree with Chrizum here.

I know that making more factories is costly and takes time, but demand simply isn't letting up. I seriously hope they consider making new factories so these shortages will just stop.

400k for launch is really sickening if you ask me.



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famousringo on 24 January 2008
PSaiki said:
Legend11, don't forget there is a delay for SSBB in NA because not enough copies produced.

Try to make Wiifit, Wii, SMG, Wiiplay, Wii Sports, SSBB for Japan and NA, and othres softwares all at once.
They don't have enough factories for that.

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 It's a helluva lot easier to press discs than it is to assemble Wiis. It shouldn't be that hard for Nintendo to contract more disc production, even with their notoriously picky quality assurance standards.



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Ari_Gold on 24 January 2008

thats scary, i'm gonna pre-order just in case



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Exblackman on 24 January 2008
Legend11 said:
I don't get it, Microsoft was able to manufacture over 6 million copies of Halo 3 for it's launch yet Nintendo is having trouble producing more than 400 thousand copies of Brawl for it's launch week?

I don't think that is it. Remember they were able to produce over 500,000 copies for America when Galaxy came out. There probably reacting from what has happen the last couple of years. None of thier games since launch had insane first weeks aka Mario galaxy. That being said it also probably a bit of underestimating how big demand is example wii. Like the earlier post said the suck at guaging demand.

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smbu2000 on 24 January 2008

Wow, so they're not even going to be able to fill pre-orders for the game? Pretty much every place I checked out , game stores/electronic stores/online sites here in JP stopped taking pre-orders for the game not too long ago. I just figured it was because that was their "limit" or allocation for the store, etc. Not even being able to fill their pre-orders is just ridiculous. What is Nintendo thinking??? It was even delayed a week, they should have been able to send out more copies of the game. I'm not buying it, but it seems very popular.




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MaxwellGT2000 on 24 January 2008

Nintendo has been burned time and time again, then you factor in how Japan hasn't been buying Nintendo's core games it really is no wonder that they don't have enough for a Japanese launch.



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superchunk on 24 January 2008

That doesn't make sense. Normally a company adjusts to demand on discs fairly easily based on pre-orders. If this one store had over 800 copies pre-ordered, then I am sure there is a few hundred thousand on pre-order already. You cannot say Nintendo though this was going to be similar to Galaxies launch as it obviously was pre-sold a ton more. Usually a company would want to have their pre-orders be about 1/3 of the total stock they are receiving. Nintendo seriously dropped the ball.

I understand they are producing quite a bit of stuff, but, seriously, a game like this should be out a million on day one.



DarkNight_DS on 24 January 2008

Maybe they don't want to piss off the people waiting in line to get a Wii with their copy of the game? I'm sure most of those pre-orders are from non Wii owners...



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