Analysts: 300k to 400k Wii Us for pre-order, Nintendo 'managing' supply chain

XMNR: Pre-orders for the Wii U sold out quickly and are currently only available as some store-specific bundles for the Basic model. A pair of game industry analysts provided comments Friday on how many Wii Us they expect to be available at launch and how Nintendo is managing the supply chain.

[Moonman]

Pachter alert, but that's a lot of units. Nintendo might do a million the first week (i'm assuming this is only USA) if they supply enough.

[Hisiru]

@Moonman
Thanks man, I will skip this article thanks to your alert. I don't want to read more of Pacther's bs.

[Jadedz]

Nintendo has to convince their Wii fanbase...
That upgrading to the Wii U, will benefit current Wii owners. Nintendo fans will buy it regardless, so it'll be the casuals and "jaded one's" who they'll (Nintendo) have to advertise the Wii U to.

[Moonman]

The fact that the Wii Remotes are backwards compatible is a major win for the perception of value and introducing the system.

[Queasy]

GameStop management is probably saying, "What the heck are we going to do with all those Wiis that will get traded in?"

[for we are many]

@Moonman: Very well said and a really intelligent move by Nintendo.

[Godmars290]

And what isn't good in IMO is that the wiimote as well as the classic and still needed and utilized. That this new controller can't do it all itself.

[Xander-RKoS]

@godsmars

Nintendo has already presented the different controllers as options. Obviously, no amount of motion control in the game pad is going to have the same kind of feeling and ease of use as the wii remote,for pointing, sword swinging etc. By allowing Wii remotes, developers dont have to give up their wii remote based ideas, but now can also do it with HD graphics.

The classic and pro controllers were also introduced so that developers and gamers dont have to make or play with shoehorned gamepad controls or could get a more traditional feel. These options just make the console more appealing to a larger crowd, since games loke Call of Duty can be played with any of the controllers.

[neogeo]

Not true. Marketing 101.
Wii only sold 96 million.
The market it will be released in covers over 3 billion.
They only need to convince the 2.99 billion that missed out on the old Wii that the WiiU will be worth buying.

[Sgt_Slaughter]

"ONLY sold 96 million"

The only way you can EVER use "only" for this is when comparing the Wii to the PS2 or DS.

[Slapshot82]

@Sgt_Slaughter ...or the iPhone 5, with is expected to sell around 58 million worldwide by January 1, 2013. ;)

[Khordchange]

Gamestop Employees broke my spirit yesterday, I went to 5 different gamestops hoping that I could get a preorder. The I finally get to one that says "hey we have one!" and I was excited and about to pull my money out, then another gamestop employee comes running from no where and he says "sorry we are out. We apoligize for the confusion" Then I left pissed off :(

[live2play]

aw man that sucks

well dont lose hope

a gamestop manager friend told me that it usually comes in "waves"

like first they get several units to pre order, then when those sell out. later they get more units sent, and pre orders open up again. you should get on the wait list

[RememberThe357]

You can always preorder online can't you?

[Knight_Crawler]

You can but they dont give you a guaranteed date of when you will get your Wii U...You could get it in Xmas or the middle o next year.

[TongkatAli]

I hope it does a million first week.

[Knight_Crawler]

The Wii U might actually have a chance on beating Kinect as the fastest selling electronic product of all times.

[fourtwenty2009]

sp;dr

*(Saw 'Pachter'; Didn't read)

[Gamer-Z]

I'm glad i got my pre order

[Etackett2010]

I went to my local Best Buy and asked about the preorders, one of my old classmates from high school works at the game section and I asked how's the stock. He said sold out and and there was a fire at a Bestbuy warehouse around central Columbus which is affecting their stock. He said if it wasn't for the fire, I might had been able to preorder one.

So I got screwed over and now I am on Gamestop's waiting list (2nd person in line for a Deluxe model after the initial preorders). I really hope they can get one in for me before Thanksgiving, I really want to play co-op with my cousin and I only see him on Holidays.

[Queasy]

How can a warehouse fire affect supplies of a product that won't even be out for another two months?

[Etackett2010]

I don't know, that's what he said.
Trying to look for a news article but I can't find it.

Only other info he said was that they were only allowed to take up to 10 preorders at the Best Buy in Grove City, Ohio.

[ronin4life]

Perhaps it affects how many they can distribute?

This will no doubt affect logistics across the board for best buy, gaming or otherwise.

Just a guess though.

[swansong]

I believe there will be a lot of returns of the system when people realize that only one screen controller can be used at a time.Extra screened controllers will cost about $170 each. Siblings will be fighting over who uses the cool screen controller.

[Crillvirus81]

No games support 2 pads and you can't buy another one cause there not selling them no time soon separately so go troll some place else lol

[Sniperwithacause]

That is so true. Then also this happens with all products ex: 40,000 sold(of anything) 2,000 returned soon after.

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

the Wii U seems to have a few little weird things in my opinion that makes me feel Nintendo, might be a little in over their head with the system and its controller!

[FinalomegaS]

tomorrow i go hunting for a store that still has preorders open.

big city.

waited a week... going to be a long day tomorrow.

[Rockoman16]

I'm, glad i preordered mine the same day it was announced, now i have to start saving up some money for the extra games

[Slapshot82]

Nintendo does this on purpose to make the demand look higher than it actually is. They aren't the only ones that do this and to be perfectly honest, it's a brilliant marketing strategy. News media ranting about the new games console being available (wherever at the time) on the news for months is free advertisement for months on end.