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sales2099 on 28 May 2013

Just to be clear to any non xbox fans, we are not investing all our hopes into this news. We know its not a big deal.

But it does say that the general public isn't as opposed as the gaming internet is, which is something I suppose.



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Conegamer on 28 May 2013

Good to hear, though I didn't realise Blockbuster were still going. Must have faith to pre-order at a chain which may not make it to the launch, I guess.



 

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Cleary397 on 28 May 2013

Every blockbuster in my town closed down.
Because nobody ever buys from there, i guess their previous pre-order record was about 40k.



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UltimateUnknown on 28 May 2013

Blockbuster is still alive? That's a surprise.

I rarely see BB stores nowadays and the one I went to for a while to check out games was closed down.



 

KHlover on 28 May 2013

Like I said before: Our opinion here on VGChartz isn't worth a damn shit to the public. I personally didn't like what I saw last week, but to assume the general public would have the same perception as the majority of our users was...laughable at best.



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fedfed on 28 May 2013

Blockbuster UK has like 8 stores left... all outside big cities or nearly.
maybe record broken in first week from announce.

WHich could mean 10 units pre-ordered or 1k we will never know.



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kitler53 on 28 May 2013
sales2099 said:
Blockbuster still has stores?

I guess its more impressive knowing that this record is attained from having 90% of chain locations closed.


lol, exactly what i thought.

..but based on what kowenicki said it doesn't sounds like blockbuster is in as bad of a shape in the UK as in the states.



PureDante on 28 May 2013

meh. media trolling for hype.



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binary solo on 28 May 2013

Didn't Wii U have some record breaking pre-orders somewhere?



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Ucell on 28 May 2013
binary solo said:
Didn't Wii U have some record breaking pre-orders somewhere?


At GameStop.