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#1 SoldMyWiiUAndLeftTheForums

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Posted 25 October 2012 - 07:28 PM

Oh guys this really don't look good :(

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Although there are a fair share of nay-sayers and doubters surrounding Wii U and its long term prospects for success, there seems to be little doubt that it'll have a strong launch. Pre-orders are sold out at various retailers in the US, for example, while GAME told us a month ago that UK pre-orders are exceeding expectations. The only down-side to high demand is the resulting issue with supply, however, and a worrying report from CVG suggests that there could be issues in the UK.
It's reported that only 25,000 units will arrive for launch day in the UK, with two sources backing the figure and one telling CVG that its retail group won't be able to fulfil all pre-orders. That's certainly a low figure, especially as Wii sold 105,000 units in its first weekend on sale in the country, giving a stark indication that having only a quarter of that number simply won't be enough. A third source has said that it expects between 75,000 and 100,000 units, but admitted that it doesn't know "whether this allocation will arrive on day one or be distributed across a number of weeks".
Satoru Iwata himself confirmed, in an investor's briefing this week, that projections of 5.5 million Wii U sales up to 31st March were limited by production capacity, and reports of manufacturing being slowed by the complexity of the GamePad and a recent factory fire haven't helped matters. With a European release date of 30th November, we certainly hope that no gamers are left disappointed by unfulfilled pre-orders.

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Posted 25 October 2012 - 07:44 PM

Oh bullox! I'm so peeved I'll go drink some tea with me mum, and complain to her about all this rubbish!

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Posted 25 October 2012 - 07:53 PM

Oh bullox! I'm so peeved I'll go drink some tea with me mum, and complain to her about all this rubbish!


I really just hope I get mine :(

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Posted 25 October 2012 - 08:16 PM

Oh bullox! I'm so peeved I'll go drink some tea with me mum, and complain to her about all this rubbish!


The bloody 'ell are you talking about?

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Posted 25 October 2012 - 10:38 PM

Isn't anyone on here worried at all? Are any of you from the UK, I'm soooo worried cos I only pre ordered mine 2 weeks ago, I need someone who can relate :(

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Posted 25 October 2012 - 11:12 PM

I'm worried. I really hope I get it on day one or I will backkflip into Mount Vesuvius. I've been waiting for ages to get a Wii U!

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Posted 26 October 2012 - 12:22 AM

I ordered mine quite a few weeks ago so I'm hoping I'll get one. Game in the town where I live say they're opening at midnight on launch day, I think I might be there now just in case. I wasn't going to bother until the following morning but things have now changed.

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Posted 26 October 2012 - 01:10 AM

I preordered with Game & was the first to do so at that branch, so I'll be mighty pissed if i don't get 1.
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Posted 26 October 2012 - 03:28 AM

i pre ordered with zavvi, i really hope i am not disappointed by it coming late
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Posted 26 October 2012 - 04:22 AM

I under stand your fear guys but try not to worry stress sucks and will make the wait feel even longer for you. What you should do if you ordered at a store is go to them and ask. The people at my game stop said they made the mistake of to many preorders before and learned there lesson so they stopped orders when they were supposed to, I would assume they only are allotted so much per store for preorder or something of that nature.

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Posted 26 October 2012 - 06:02 AM

Man that suckz for them.
I hope the US doesnt have this problem. Ill be there right when gamestop opens. I wanna be fight in line.
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Posted 26 October 2012 - 06:55 AM

Thank god everyone where I live is busy drinking and smoking all day to play video games. I'm still like the only person at my local eclipse who's ordered a wii U.

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Posted 26 October 2012 - 07:41 AM

*Update* I popped in to my local GAME today to check my preorder, the lady who I spoke to took my reward card and a bunch of folders out back to speak to the manager and left me standing there for 10 mins, by which point I was getting worried. She then came back and told me that our store has 19 consoles coming (5 ZombiU Bundles, 7 Premium Bundles and 7 Basic Bundles) and all the pre orders are gone, my face dropped but then she said out of all 19 pre orders sold I was the 3rd person to pre order one so I'm Guaranteed one on day 1 as long as I get there about an hour before they open which I was going to do anyway. My face proceeded to light up I was so happy so I shook her hand said thank you and then left. On my way out though my heart dropped remembering all the other people who might not get one on day 1, this is a really bad situation for some people and I stand by my statement Nintendo are wicked at making consoles but they just can't do launches right, they need to sort this out, they've been in the business for over 2 decades now, you think problems like this would have been ironed out years ago. Such a shame for some :(

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Posted 26 October 2012 - 08:35 AM

I entered into agreeement with my retailer and paid in full,so if (I really dont see there being only 25000 units in uk for launch) then I would be going to small claims court sharpish.Oh and to be honest it would be nintendos fault if pre orders are not honoured.Would have to think long and hard about what that says about the firm especially if no launch shortage in other regions of the world.Logic however dictates that this is scaremongering as nintendo have released more consoles lately than anyone and are well aware of the associated stock/demand issues.Sceptical but slighlty worried
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Posted 27 October 2012 - 02:34 AM

Well my local GAME store where i have my ZombiU Wii U pack is opening early in the morning, not sure of the time yet, i will ask in-store the week before release when they will know more.

The thing is Nintendo will have said to retailers we have 100,000 units available for the UK & then asked the retailers how many they each want, if GAME said they want 30,000 & Zavii want 10,000 & Amazon want 25,000 etc then they will get the amount they have ordered, people who have one pre-ordered at a actual psychical shop are more or less (99%) certain to get the console they have ordered, most at risk are the online retailers, it has always been the same, also GAME are the official partner for the launch of the Wii U, so i would say that if you have a order with GAME you should be fine.

All the orders are taken on first come first served & as soon as the 30,000th person orders a Wii U no more orders can be taken (at GAME for example) you have paid a deposit in-store, so each shop will get the number of consoles that have been ordered, also with the negative press some people will have canceled their order but this will not go on the system or another way be made available to be reserved/ordered by someone else.

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Posted 28 October 2012 - 10:55 AM

I'm in North America, so this doesn't affect me. But this isn't a good move, they should of had higher expectations for supply and demand. Now people might not get the Wii U they used their hard earned cash on. Hopefully this will be resolved in some way.

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Posted 28 October 2012 - 12:51 PM

Oh bullox! I'm so peeved I'll go drink some tea with me mum, and complain to her about all this rubbish!

*Oh bollocks, I'm so peeved I'll go and drink a cuppa with my mum and complain to her about all this rubbish.

I'm not worried, I'm going to a midnight launch.

i pre ordered with zavvi, i really hope i am not disappointed by it coming late

It will come late regardless. Zavvi use second class post. They send out the product on release, rather than send it before so it gets to you on release day.
People are fools to preorder ANYTHING with Zavvi and want it on day 1.
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Posted 28 October 2012 - 02:15 PM

Thanks for all the replys people, lets hope all this mess can be sorted out before launch, if not my heart goes out to all who may miss out.




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