More copies of the game are on the way this fall to resolve unexpected shortages.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/27745
Nintendo UK are working on resolving the Xenoblade Chronicles stock shortage situation and will have more copies in stores this season.
Following reports online and from our readers that it is difficult to get hold of the game, and online stores including Amazon, Asda, GAME, and others listing the game as unavailable, it is thought that the shortages are caused by unexpected high demand.
Nintendo UK confirmed to us, "We are doing everything we can to get more stock of Xenoblade Chronicles into UK shops this autumn. We know how frustrating stock shortages can be for people, and we are disappointed when even one customer cannot get hold of one of our products."
Wow, amazing how it's sold out both in Europe and here in America. I can't find a copy anywhere.
...oh wait, that's because Nintendo of America is run by Reggie who doesn't have a clue what games will sell and what ones won't.
I hope next week we get an announcement at TGS that NOA is stupid and they are going to in fact release this game in the US.
Now, I heard initial sales in Europe were terrible.
Is that simply because they never made enough copies to sell better than terrible???
... I feel like that happens with third party Wii games rather consistently.
That's why most people don't even know about quality 3rd party Wii games - they're never on the shelves!
Now, I heard initial sales in Europe were terrible.
Is that simply because they never made enough copies to sell better than terrible???
... I feel like that happens with third party Wii games rather consistently.
That's why most people don't even know about quality 3rd party Wii games - they're never on the shelves!
Um, Xenoblade Chronicles is a 1st party game... Since you already got one fact wrong, you might want to double-check where you heard initial sales were terrible.
Maybe I missed something, but where did NinSage say that it wasn't a 1st party title?
I see him making a comparison to 3rd party titles, but never saying Xeno was not a 1st party title.
@Bman87301 / BlackNMild2k1yea, sorry that was a bit confusing. I was sort of using one point to make another.Um, how about this very article? The fact that all stock is sold out seems pretty concrete. Even if we were to assume the initial supply was extremely limited, getting sold out still means it exceeded expectations.
however, the fact remains, companies cannot be disappointed in poor sales when they don't even make high sales possible.
as for my source, does anyone have any concrete information on current Xenoblade sales?
The problem here is that Nintendo's publishing facilities have been so over-burdened as of late. They just can't handle producing enough of their catalog of new games this year. Give them some time. They'll manage it right after they finish their runs of all those games they've released as of late.
I know it's annoying dealing with shortages like this, but really this is probably the best way these games could be released. It's the Atlus strategy: take a niche product, market hard at your core base, and sell your product in limited quantities out of the gate. If sales prove favorable, you can boast about how it sold out and then make/ship more copies until the sales stop increasing. You take a niche product, and you sell what you know you can sell without wasting money on what you can't. Months ago, many of us were saying that's exactly how Nintendo of America could have sold these games in North America.
But, yes, I use VGChartz, ya know why? Because they are the best source of sales information we have access to!!
I'm pretty sure that VGChartz have methods which they use to guesstimate sales, but since they don't share them, people doubt that which they can't see.
Supposedly their shipments were focused on major brick & mortar chains so online retailers had much less stock than e.g. Media Markt.But, yes, I use VGChartz, ya know why? Because they are the best source of sales information we have access to!!
The problem is that VGChartz doesn't have more information than we do. If we don't know the number then they don't either but they won't tell you "we don't know", they make up something instead.
So the number ion VGChartz is exactly as reliable as me saying the game sold two million copies across Europe.
You don't see this issue in movies, where we know the box office returns on even the extremely-poorly selling films? We have the Nielson ratings for TV that is public knowledge, though their data-collection is extremely limited and antiquated in this day and age.Audience.
There isn't a IGDB that tells the voice actors, producers, etc. for game.
Kotaku? D-toid? GameTrailers? Joystiq? No, no, no and no. So please, let's hear 'em...
You are aware that Kotaku, Destructoid, and Joystiq are all enthusiast blogs, right? Blogs aren't supposed to be "Teh Journalizm!" as we would sites for news reporting like CNN; Fox News; MSNBC; etc. They're opinion websites run by and for enthusiasts. And you're aware that GameTrailers is a multimedia site that mostly just hosts videos? And what's your problem with Gametrailers, anyway? They're a great site with probably the best multimedia coverage on the widest variety of games on the internet, not to mention their original video features.
Having idiotic predictions from Kotaku and G4 are pretty much expected. I simply ignore them. That's why I like Nintendo-centric fan sites like NWR.
If they do, I imagine the agreement stipulates that they cannot release the numbers.
