TROLLING thread! Maybe MODS ban the person who posts this?

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This post has been moderated. Also, Irony.

-Smeags

I didnt mean Nintendo, though i dunno the details of the info, if what is beeing said is actually what they said. I believe Nintendo, i just dont believe everything i read on the internet.

Either way i meant VGC's sources for numbers.

Walmart has over 4000 stores in the US
Gamestop ~4500 stores in the US
Best Buy over 1000 stores in the US

Adding all other consumer electronic retail chains,
self-employed retailers,
Amazon and other online-only shops,

you'll come to the conclusion that in every single US store, there's less than one WiiU (probably closer to 0.5 WiiUs) in stock on average.
An incredibly unrealistic scenario.

Is it really though? The MK8 boost anyway you look at it is pretty incredible and took many retailers by surprise I'd imagine.

Though that doesn't change the fact many retailers stayed pretty cagey on stocking more Wii U &  Nintendo undershipping a product isn't a uniquely new. This entire year, I very seldom see a retailer stock any more than 3 Wii U at a time. So to me, a small number on shelves end of June, in the midst of a MK8 frenzy, makes sense.

Based on Nintendo's current high inventory levels and overall bad sales of Wii U, retailers have some leverage against Ninty. And even for as good MK8 has been, at the end of the day retailers know the Wii U product line to be pretty slow moving and don't want to massively outpace stock to demand just based on stronger than usual sales for a 2-4 week time frame.

This site is hillarious. Vgchartz shows Sony doesnt have 10 million PS4 shipped at the end of June(on the boat shipping to retailers which wont get to retailers for a month/August) then announces 10 million sold to customers "Bleh, ioi update the Sony they sold 10 million they know whos hands its in!"(we only had like a dozen threads like this in the beginning of August). Wii U 6.68(on the boat for sale in the beginning of August) "Bleh!, ioi fix the Wii U numbers we dont know how many they sold or shipped in the past month"

For the record I think the real sold through numbers are closer to the 6.7 million point at this point. The U is doing okish now but I cant imagine a shipment that went on sale in August selling completely through as they probably keep 200k on shelves(for August) and most likely did not sell much more than that in August. We will know once the financials are out.

Yes, it's all one huge conspiracy to make Xbone look bad.

Really.

What is that even supposed to mean?

Here is the thing.  I think VGC numbers are great.  I look at them as a great source and its one of two reasons i still visit this site.  I know theyre estimates and isnt going to be 100% accurate, but i feel that numbers should be adjusted once more official numbers comes to be as accurate as possible.  I personally feel he did a great job with PS4.  I mean that was adjusted in a few weeks.  But WiiU has been overtracked for about 3 months now.  I feel it should have been fixed by now

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6646778

Ironically ioi has adjusted the Wii U in the last couple weeks, he adjusted it up to meet official german numbers, unfortunately he seems to have ignored the shipment data when making that adjustment thus just making the Wii U even more overtracked worldwide. (And the PS4 is still not fully adjusted, imo, but that's not for here)