Nintendo Exec: New Wii U Stock Heading for the U.S.
Don't panic!
If you've had problems getting your hands on Nintendo's latest console, you'll be glad to know that additional stock is headed this way. Forbes cites Nintendo executive Scott Moffitt a saying more stock of the console is on the way and that the United States is a priority.
Speaking at the U.S. Wii U launch in New York City, Moffitt said demand for the Wii U has been 'phenomenal' and said stock would be repleished before the holidays.
"As you’ve seen, stores are selling out of their pre-sell quantities ... There may be lines, and we do anticipate tremendous demand," he's quoted as saying. "We’ll do our best to keep up with it, but there should be a great quantity available at launch," he said, latter adding, "The second thing you should know is we’ll have more replenishment during the holiday season to replenish those stocks and refill those store shelves as quickly as we can. We can’t guarantee there won’t be shortages, but we’ll do our best to keep up with it."
Moffitt later said that since the U.S. is the first territory to get the console, we could expect more inventory here than in other territories.
The Wii U was announced at E3 2011 and launched on November 18. It's Nintendo's first HD console and comes with a unique tablet-style controller that also serves as a secondary screen. It's priced from $299 and will go on sale in Europe and Australia on November 30. Japan will get the console on December 8.
Some of us don't have to have it this second. Some of us are patient. I'll get one eventually.
ahaha I see what you did there
Because the GamePad gives some interesting options not available elsewhere. Like playing the game on the small screen while other people spectate on the big screen. Takes a little while to get used to but I love this thing. Especially since it acts like a universal remote for my TV.
I do find it funny that all the trolls saying the Wii U would be a "major fail" and wouldn't sell are totally wrong. In truth, it looks like a good system and I think it will have some great games. Nintendo was smart to get this thing out the door before the rival consoles hit the market.
Drove to larger Target at a mall, 15 in stock, but only 6 people waiting...
The Wii U processor die is 30mm2, and most things point to it having three cores. That's about the same size as a SINGLE core Atom also on 45nm. Each core has 1/3rd the transistor budget of one Atom core then. There is only so much you can do with a given transistor budget. I would not be surprised if a dual core from a few years ago kills this in raw CPU performance. Also its memory bandwidth for the CPU and GPU together is 12.8GB/s, even the 7 year old consoles are twice that speed, although it maybe has more eDRAM than the 360 to make up for it.
saw probably 8 deluxes and more than 10 basics in my storeroom today