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Uabit said:
Wii U & Vita = worst two consoles ever


You are confusing bad sales with bad quality. I think you meant to say "Wii U & Vita worst two SELLING consoles ever", which is still not an accurate statement.
Anyway, they are just selling badly, but they are not bad consoles, far from it.



 

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spurgeonryan said:
leyendax69 said:

You have to understand this is a business, the same happens with Vita or other failure consoles in the past. Just enjoy your wii u.


I do understand, but they reduced the vita section. Why not reduce the Wii U section as well? Plus I think you missed me saying it was selling well! Then they just dumped it. What kind of business dumps something that is selling well? They even gave the PSP another chance to sell.

Plus Walmart is a family orientated business. They have tons of motivational books and Christian stuff, and Music Cds that have the cuss words deleeted out and so on and so forth. Why would they dump the Wii U? Especially when they are selling a bunch of 3DS units? They obviously have a good relationship with Nintendo. 3DS makes them money.

That's the problem, 3ds makes them money, not wii u. The console is selling better than months ago, but is underperforming compared with Wii and of course X1/PS4. Still, your walmart could be a separate case, since is selling better than 360 & PS3 in NA (although both are dropping hard this year).



spurgeonryan said:

So I call daily acting like a different customer trying to find out if there are any Wii U's available at my local Walmart. In case you have not seen me post this yet, my Walmart has not had a Wii U in stock since it was selling really well during the holiday's. So a month and a half ago.

So finally today I acted upset over the phone and asked for the Department manager of the electronics area. He goes on to tell me that they do not have it in stock, blah blah blah. Then I ask, "Well what Walmarts in your area have it? I do not have internet so I cannot order it that way".

After about five minutes he comes back and tells me that a store about 15 miles away has 3 in stock, but that is it since most stores ( including the Fucking one I work at!!!) have deleted it from their system. They will not be getting anymore!

What the Fuck does this mean Nintendo?

I am happy with my Wii U, but I will not be happy if they do not work harder and keep things going. There are Vita's in stock, even though it is selling worse than the wii U. So what gives?

new model incoming is the most likely reason.  Just relax and take a breath.  All is well in the world.  



Vladez said:
Uabit said:
Wii U & Vita = worst two consoles ever


You are confusing bad sales with bad quality. I think you meant to say "Wii U & Vita worst two SELLING consoles ever", which is still not an accurate statement.
Anyway, they are just selling badly, but they are not bad consoles, far from it.


Vg Chartz would have been amusing in the 90s to see Phillips CDi, 3DO, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn, Nintendo Virtua Boy and others sales stats.



superchunk said:
spurgeonryan said:
superchunk said:

wow that's bad.

Nintendo needs to fix that.... loss of retail space means real doom.

The crazy thing is that they still have the same amount of space! They are just not using it. They even get new games. We got 5 copies of Lego movie. Plus zombie U just came in again.

 

So what is the Deal? I do not get it. They sell the games, but are not ordering anymore systems? We just got 5 Wii minis as well. One sold yesterday.

Very confusing.

Maybe this is partly what ND tomorrow is about.

Maybe just the skus/bundles they had were removed and a new bundle is about to launch.


Yeah a new SKU would seem a lot more reasonable.  I mean if the stores are still selling the games, then they are going to sell the system.  



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jlmurph2 said:

Maybe they have caller ID and are sick of you calling them. I mean how often do you think people ask about Wii U at Wal-Mart?

But honestly I think there's no point in ordering a product that isn't selling. 

...And the fact that they probably know it's one of their employees pretending to be an interested customer.



Like Superchunk mentioned, they are probably replacing SKUs.
Doesn`t make sense to remove the console forever when sales were actually decente this holiday season - and with Mario kart 8 and Smash coming.

Thanks for the news, Ryan!



superchunk said:
spurgeonryan said:
superchunk said:

wow that's bad.

Nintendo needs to fix that.... loss of retail space means real doom.

The crazy thing is that they still have the same amount of space! They are just not using it. They even get new games. We got 5 copies of Lego movie. Plus zombie U just came in again.

 

So what is the Deal? I do not get it. They sell the games, but are not ordering anymore systems? We just got 5 Wii minis as well. One sold yesterday.

Very confusing.

Maybe this is partly what ND tomorrow is about.

Maybe just the skus/bundles they had were removed and a new bundle is about to launch.

DK bundle woot woot



 

spurgeonryan said:
Blood_Tears said:
Well people are buying it though, it outsold X360 in NA this week so it's still around. I think your a little to dedicated to the sales of this system, like calling every day when you already have a Wii U, really?...


I do this because I do not think others are asking for it. But I do not know for sure.

 

But I did see a mexican family at another Walmart looking at one. They mentioned Mario in their native tongue. I think they were confused about it though. They had the Mario bundle there still.


wait... you call stores pretending to be different people to make it seem like a lot people are asking for it?  That seems kind of... crazy.  You do realize that won't have any impact on the stores continued support of the product right?  They look at sales of a product, not questions over phone to determine what products to support and how much to allocate... 



Uabit said:
Wii U & Vita = worst two consoles ever





                
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