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It was recently reported that Nintendo was having major Super Smash Bros Brawl shortages. Well, it appears the shortages are worse than anyone thought, with most stores only recieving enough copies of Brawl to cover 15% - 25% of their orders! That means over three-quarters of people who have ordered Brawl will not be recieving the game when they expected!
This not only applies to Japanese stores, but also import stores as well.
Looks like this week's release of the Wii fighting game Super Smash Bros. Brawl in Japan is more of a paper launch. Retailers are reporting that Nintendo is only shipping enough games to fill a tiny fraction of retail orders on January 31.
NCS says this means, for example, that vendors who ordered 100 copies of the game will only receive 25.
"Nintendo has badly cut preorders placed by all distributors and is only shipping very limited quantities into the market this week," writes Hong Kong importer Play-Asia, where Game|Life has an outstanding order for the game.
It said that it only received enough copies of Smash Bros. to cover 15% of its preorders.
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Im sorry but this will definitely hurt Nintendo. I hope the game is good other wise Nintendo could be in a very bad situation.
WTF is up with Nintendo shortages lately?
It's bullshit to say no-one cares about shortages. If somebody pre-orders a game, then they expect a copy of the game to be ready for them when they arrive at the store upon release date. They don't want to wait weeks or months for a game that they should have on the release date.
Making the game "rare" doesn't make the game "look like a cool thing". It just pisses off the thousands of people who ordered the game, yet didn't recieve one.
Lucky for me, I'll be able to get it through a local game store without reservations.
May as well say that we'll be getting our reserved copy sometime in May.
First off Nintendo doesn't make enough Wii's. Mmmk I think people understand that, there were more sales of it then expected, but from the massive sales, it seemed clear that a game like Brawl was going to need a lot of copies.
Secondly, Nintendo pushes Brawl back a fair bit. I also think that people understood why it was with the sheer amount of features in it, it's completely jam packed of stuff and a game like Brawl needs to be polished to perfection.
Third thing...and this is where Nintendo starts to slip. They kill all PAL release dates and from what I've heard, NEVER confirmed there was a PAL release date at any stage. Thats rather lame all things considered.
Forth wrong doing, and one of the most major ones. Nintendo makes 30,000 copies, a pathetic number for any game release, and considering Brawl, one of the worst moves in the history of the game industry (imo).
Fifth thing is the standard favouritism that is present in the gaming industry. A Hong Kong only release (if I understand correctly, please correct me if I'm wrong), and to be honest I wouldn't be surprised if they got a lot more copies over anybody else. People may disagree with me calling it favouritism but that's what it seems like to me.
Sixth thing, and the final annoyance is what this article is about, Nintendo only sends a puny amount of copies to stores with MANY pre-orders, this causes people to rush and attempt to be assured of a copy, and to be honest I wouldn't be surprised of some of the methods used to achieve this by certain fruitcakes. Also I wouldn't be surprised if small towns or communities that aren't much for games didn't get a single copy. These two things make other people who deserved a copy and were patient and such to suffer. This is not cool whatsoever. Nintendo is massively slipping these days, and all they are doing is getting gamers pissed off, and that's not a great move for a gaming giant. Granted when everybody who wants a copy of Brawl has one, all will be well, but till then Nintendo should prepare to be hated.
Stuff like this like i stated above makes or breaks games and consoles. This has the potential to shoot Nintendo in the rear end. And could hurt them big time. Im a Super Smash Brothers, and Melee fan i loved those two games, but im hardly impressed with this and for some reason this just makes me believe this game will have so much hype and be a utter failure. Im hoping im wrong here cause i loved the past two games, but this is absurd.
I can't wait for this game, but Nintendo have really *bleep*ed up making/distributing this game.
It better be the best game I've ever played.
Seriously, Brawl is going to be a popular game, so Nintendo must be prepared with a good ammount of copies. Nintendo, get up your lazy asses and make more copies, or you will lose many gamers' trust into you.
Luckily for me, I'll get the game without pre-ordering. However, this is still a downfall for the company and the game itself. Bad move, Nintendo, bad move.
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