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fps_d0minat0r on 19 December 2013

Maybe theyre not buying them because theyre not selling?
In the UK, asda (owned by walmart) stopped doing wii U altogether instores because they were not selling enough.



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burninmylight on 19 December 2013
Metallicube said:
JGarret said:
Metallicube said:
Ouroboros24 said:

I'm scared to think what kind monsters are these casuals.  Nintendo has been advertising the difference between Wii and Wii U.  Maybe there's a resurgence of the casual crowd sleeping under their own ignorance.  That sounds more mean than I wanted to say, but I already wrote it.  Could it be they have a sleeping giant in the mass appeal.  It won't be the same as Wii, but certainly there are plenty of them that lie in wait.  OMG, best selling game for Wii U 2014: Just Dance 5.  Good for them tho.


Lawl nice try, but the Wii U is a hardcore console (like the Gamecube). That's why it is doing so terribly in sales. Remember how all the hardcore was whining that Nintendo should make a Wii HD for THEM.. Well that's exactly what the Wii U is! And still, not surprisingly, they don't buy it. The hardcore never buy Nintendo stuff, that's why they always fail when they try to appeal to them (N64, Gamecube, Wii U). Nintendo is much better off ditching the hardcore model and going back to the so called "monster casuals"


Don´t you wonder why Nintendo went running back to the 'Gamecube philosophy' (disguised as Wii) right after the Wii proved its success, by doing the opposite?

I did for awhlie. Then I realized, this is Nintendo.. They are impossible to figure out.

I wonder why it doesn't expand its resources to do both. I've said it a thousand times now, but Nintendo could be like Disney and be so large of a company that it can have one image and appeal to one demographic and different image and appeal to another demographic.  Nintendo got it right with the original DS, and Microsoft got it right with the 360 + Kinect.

Doing this now would spread resources too thin between two different consoles and two different markets on those two consoles, but as we've seen lately, Nintendo has been bringing in some extra help (Tecmo, Atlus, Namco, Platinum). I'd like to see it actually acquire more studios to cover more bases though.



burninmylight on 19 December 2013
fps_d0minat0r said:
Maybe theyre not buying them because theyre not selling?
In the UK, asda (owned by walmart) stopped doing wii U altogether instores because they were not selling enough.


Walmart.com is still selling Wii Us. If it wasn't, then you wouldn't even be able to find a listing of the different SKUs; they would be completely removed.



fps_d0minat0r on 19 December 2013
burninmylight said:
fps_d0minat0r said:
Maybe theyre not buying them because theyre not selling?
In the UK, asda (owned by walmart) stopped doing wii U altogether instores because they were not selling enough.


Walmart.com is still selling Wii Us. If it wasn't, then you wouldn't even be able to find a listing of the different SKUs; they would be completely removed.


im not exactly sure how american companies work, but in the uk, stores and online are not always the same. Asda here is doing wii U online but no sign of it instores. Its not sold out, they just dont stock it instore anymore.



NintendoSupporter<3 on 19 December 2013

Wow its still the top trending!



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burninmylight on 19 December 2013
fps_d0minat0r said:
burninmylight said:
fps_d0minat0r said:
Maybe theyre not buying them because theyre not selling?
In the UK, asda (owned by walmart) stopped doing wii U altogether instores because they were not selling enough.


Walmart.com is still selling Wii Us. If it wasn't, then you wouldn't even be able to find a listing of the different SKUs; they would be completely removed.


im not exactly sure how american companies work, but in the uk, stores and online are not always the same. Asda here is doing wii U online but no sign of it instores. Its not sold out, they just dont stock it instore anymore.


Works like that here too. But since it's Walmart.com, it has no bearing on brick and mortar stores. Anything sold online comes from some warehouse where they'd have space to keep a bunch more than any store.



Gremdude on 19 December 2013
JoeTheBro said:
It's been sold out at a considerable amount of places actually. Amazon was bone dry a few hours ago.


Amazon doesn't sell Wii Us or any Nintendo product for that matter. All listings for Nintendo products are third party vendors charging more than retail. Nintendo really needs to fix their relationship with Amazon. They are only the largest retailer PERIOD.



supernihilist on 19 December 2013
Gremdude said:
JoeTheBro said:
It's been sold out at a considerable amount of places actually. Amazon was bone dry a few hours ago.


Amazon doesn't sell Wii Us or any Nintendo product for that matter. All listings for Nintendo products are third party vendors charging more than retail. Nintendo really needs to fix their relationship with Amazon. They are only the largest retailer PERIOD.

amzon here sells WiiU stuff left and right so no idea what your talkin bout



supernihilist on 19 December 2013

its sold out here at GAME but it must be cause an old unsold shipment. damn retailers are so unconfident of Nintendo lol



psrock on 19 December 2013

Nintendo doing well in December? No way!



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