Xenoblade stock shortage

[Shuji1987]

It has been announced that Xenoblade Chronicles, due to release tomorrow across Europe, is facing serious stock shortages. Nintendo of Europe seems to have not expected the great demand for their latest JRPG and so are dealing with both high-street and online retailer shortages.

The online retailer ShopTo.net tweeted earlier; “Due to the unexpected late demand for Xenoblade Chronicles the publisher has experienced great stock shortages of this title.”

Although we do not know how this will affect sales over the weekend, we can expect that Nintendo will deal first with all pre-orders of the game and then place larger orders to fill shelves.

It is unusual that a Wii exclusive JRPG would attract this much attention prior to release. However, it looks as though Xenoblade deserves the attention as it has received glowing reviews across the board, with a current Metacritic score of 92 out of 100. Hopefully it will knock Zumba Fitness off of the top spot the UK Charts once released.

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I guess the American will get their Xenoblade too.

edit:
also twice on amazon france top 5 ordered games (beating BF3

)

 

[Hadrian]

That or that particular retailer didn't order much and place the blame on NoE.

 

[Shuji1987]

I bolded it out, it clearly states the publisher (which is Nintendo).

 

[Rockym]

I'll bet its scalpers buying em all up to sell to us Americans at inflated prices.

 

[prowler]

I bolded it out, it clearly states the publisher (which is Nintendo).

Yes, we know it says that.

But ShopTo could of said that because they didn't order much and is shifting the blame to Nintendo.

 

[nasune]

I'm not worried, I picked up my copy today (and the three gorgeous posters

).

 

[BrightNeko]

Now all this needs to happen for the last story as well. An then nintendo will learn the power of the JRPG and we will have sexy earthbound times, yes.... yes...

 

[Raikiri]

I thought the release was tomorrow but i already saw it in stores today :S oh well already pre-ordered my copy

 

[Necron]

I hope this doesn't sky-rocket prices.

 

[Taik]

My store got around 10 copies of each edition.
I was fairly lucky to get one (one day earlier at that)

 

[Bladexdsl]

you can always pirate wait for more stock

i bet noa are shitting themselves now after seeing how much profit they could have made on this.

 

[koimayeul]

big success huh? i seen video of it and admit it looks good.. one of the few wii games i would like to play it ^^
maybe in a few years with the wii at below 100 euros

 

[Gahars]

Well, this seems to be good news for the Operation Rainfall people, so congratulations to them.

Now maybe Nintendo will try to avoid underestimating their RPG fanbase next time.

 

[Ace]

Well, this seems to be good news for the Operation Rainfall people, so congratulations to them.

Now maybe Nintendo will try to avoid underestimating their RPG fanbase next time.

Agreeably, I certainly hope they learned from this: the risk they could've, nay, SHOULD'VE taken has cost them a lot of money. Putting their cash on the 3DS is so far not so worthwhile, but a game like Xenoblade would've certainly brought in big bucks to Nintendo as a whole.

TL;DR Their loss, simple as that.

 

[L_o_N_e_R]

cant wait till i get this locally in the US... i want that bundle with the classic controller

 

[Slyakin]

cant wait till i get this locally in the US... i want that bundle with the classic controller

It won't happen. If it does, I'll buy a hat and eat it.

 

[machomuu]

cant wait till i get this locally in the US... i want that bundle with the classic controller

It won't happen. If it does, I'll buy a hat and eat it.

...C'mon Nintendo, bring it over!

 

[L_o_N_e_R]

cant wait till i get this locally in the US... i want that bundle with the classic controller

It won't happen. If it does, I'll buy a hat and eat it.

yeah the chances are slim, but if it ever does come out here, i want you to film yourself eating a hat

EDIT: has there been a number of how much have been sold?

 

[Slyakin]

cant wait till i get this locally in the US... i want that bundle with the classic controller
It won't happen. If it does, I'll buy a hat and eat it.

...C'mon Nintendo, bring it over!

QUOTE(Slyakin @ Aug 19 2011, 06:45 PM) QUOTE(L_o_N_e_R @ Aug 19 2011, 09:44 PM)

cant wait till i get this locally in the US... i want that bundle with the classic controller

It won't happen. If it does, I'll buy a hat and eat it.

yeah the chances are slim, but if it ever does come out here, i want you to film yourself eating a hat

EDIT: has there been a number of how much have been sold?

Hat eating aficionados, eh?

 

[Nujui]

If it comes to the US I will do this dance.

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