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Pyro as Bill on 24 January 2017
wombat123 said:
Isn't it mostly in the UK where people are indifferent towards Nintendo consoles?

 

bigtakilla said:
I'd be far more surprised if that said UK, or North America. I mean, how many preorders is it?

Can't pre-order Switch at any of the usual UK stores anymore. GAME, shopto, Amazon, gameseek are all sold out of initial allocation. GAME is allowing pre-orders for their next shipment.



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ThomasM on 24 January 2017

Of course we have to take it with a grain of salt because it's 1 retailer in one little country.

But... Sweden is a Playstation country where Nintendo is even less relevant than Xbox.

So to already have more preorders than the PS4 in one retailer in Sweden is still somehow positive.



bigtakilla on 24 January 2017
Pyro as Bill said:
wombat123 said:
Isn't it mostly in the UK where people are indifferent towards Nintendo consoles?

 

bigtakilla said:
I'd be far more surprised if that said UK, or North America. I mean, how many preorders is it?

Can't pre-order Switch at any of the usual UK stores anymore. GAME, shopto, Amazon, gameseek are all sold out of initial allocation. GAME is allowing pre-orders for their next shipment.

Okay. Nintendo should have had more ready, gotcha.



irstupid on 24 January 2017
bigtakilla said:
Pyro as Bill said:

 

Can't pre-order Switch at any of the usual UK stores anymore. GAME, shopto, Amazon, gameseek are all sold out of initial allocation. GAME is allowing pre-orders for their next shipment.

Okay. Nintendo should have had more ready, gotcha.

Nintendo had more ready that Sony, since as topic is titled "More Switch pre-orders than PS4"

The Fury said:

You know Zelda can swing sales right? If this launched without it, I doubt it'll do as well. It's good it's doing well, but I just don't think it would do as well.

You don't say?

You should inform other companies of this major insight you have. A major game makes people want your system.



justiceiro on 24 January 2017

Can someone provide a actual tranlation of what is being said on that post?



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G2ThaUNiT on 24 January 2017

Well, I mean the Switch has sold out in all retailers here too. I think many are underestimating the concept of taking console gaming truly on the go and how much people were wanting this. Longevity, that I'm skeptical on, but at launch, everyone's gonna be all over the Switch.



pokoko on 24 January 2017

Launch pre-orders mean pretty much nothing.



GoOnKid on 24 January 2017

That's nice.



Stellar_Fungk on 24 January 2017

I would argue that webhallen is the place where most swedes go for TV-games and tech.



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Stellar_Fungk on 24 January 2017
justiceiro said:
Can someone provide a actual tranlation of what is being said on that post?

He says that the Switch preorders surpasses the PS4's. That the preorders are sold out. And they rekommend people to stand in line if they want one at launch



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