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| Subject: Wii U consoles and games will no longer be stocked at in-stores in the UK Mon Jul 29, 2013 3:56 pm | |
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- Wii U consoles and games will no longer be stocked in UK supermarket chain ASDA’s 555 stores, according to the retailer. It will, however, continue to stock games online via a title-by-title basis.
CVG reports that the Wal-Mart owned chain will cease the sale of all Wii U console models, games and accessories in-store, and that only a few related products remain on the ASDA Direct website, including basic white Wii U consoles. This could just be a sell-through of remaining units however.
An ASDA rep confirmed the dropping of Wii U to the site in a statement that read, “ASDA continues to offer customers a selection of Wii U games and accessories through Asda Direct, but these ranges are currently not on offer in Asda shops.”
They added that new games would only appear on ASDA Direct on a title-by-title basis, presumably for ones they know will sell well, “Asda will stock [Wii U] games on a title by title merit basis as they come along through Asda Direct. We will continue to support Nintendo as a format holder partner.”
Pikmin 3 was not stocked by ASDA according to CVG’s sources, and it’s unclear if the chain will re-consider its stance down the line.
Nintendo added in its own statement, “Nintendo UK does not comment on specific business practices with individual retailers. However, as we have seen with Nintendo 3DS, software sells hardware, and with titles such as Wonderful 101, Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD and Super Mario 3D World already announced for this year as well as the recently released Pikmin 3 and New Super Luigi U having reached number 2 and number 6 in this week’s chart respectively, we are looking forward to the year ahead on Wii U.”
What do you make of the above? Does it bode badly for Nintendo? Could you see ASDA picking up the format again if sales improve? Let us know below. Source: VG247 | |
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Mr Canai Spy Mid-Boss
Stature : 47 Weymouth Playing : halo 5, rise of the tomb raider
| Subject: Re: Wii U consoles and games will no longer be stocked at in-stores in the UK Mon Jul 29, 2013 4:00 pm | |
| Wow asda is probably the second best retail place to get games other than Game, shocking | |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Wii U consoles and games will no longer be stocked at in-stores in the UK Mon Jul 29, 2013 4:56 pm | |
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Bluenose Founding Father
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| Subject: Re: Wii U consoles and games will no longer be stocked at in-stores in the UK Mon Jul 29, 2013 5:00 pm | |
| Nintendo gotta admit and say "Wii lost". | |
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Angelus The Red Dragon
Stature : 342 Canada Playing : Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Ys: Celceta Watching : Darksydephil
| Subject: Re: Wii U consoles and games will no longer be stocked at in-stores in the UK Mon Jul 29, 2013 5:02 pm | |
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Orion Final Boss, 5th Form
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| Subject: Re: Wii U consoles and games will no longer be stocked at in-stores in the UK Mon Jul 29, 2013 5:13 pm | |
| I don't know anyone that buys consoles from Asda, but I've bought plenty of great priced games from there before. | |
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Orc Post-Game Enemy
Stature : 173 England Playing : Pokemon Omega Ruby
| Subject: Re: Wii U consoles and games will no longer be stocked at in-stores in the UK Mon Jul 29, 2013 6:21 pm | |
| - Mr Canai Spy wrote:
- Wow asda is probably the second best retail place to get games other than Game, shocking
No way. They are horribly overpriced and most branches have very little variation of stock. | |
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thebigmike1983 Unique Grunt
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| Subject: Re: Wii U consoles and games will no longer be stocked at in-stores in the UK Mon Jul 29, 2013 7:36 pm | |
| Nintendo needs to drop the Wii U console price by $50-100 if they want to stay in the game at this point. The new Mario Kart, Smash Bros, etc games are too far out to warrant paying that much for it. | |
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Mr Canai Spy Mid-Boss
Stature : 47 Weymouth Playing : halo 5, rise of the tomb raider
| Subject: Re: Wii U consoles and games will no longer be stocked at in-stores in the UK Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:15 am | |
| - Sawed-Off_Orc wrote:
- Mr Canai Spy wrote:
- Wow asda is probably the second best retail place to get games other than Game, shocking
No way. They are horribly overpriced and most branches have very little variation of stock. what Asda is the cheapest place for games | |
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Bluenose Founding Father
Stature : 264 Playing : Tu madre
| Subject: Re: Wii U consoles and games will no longer be stocked at in-stores in the UK Tue Jul 30, 2013 9:22 am | |
| Hmmmm, is the youtuber Nintondo still around? | |
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The Enkindler Endgame Boss
Stature : 86 Greece Playing : Plenty of games, and I can't count them.
| Subject: Re: Wii U consoles and games will no longer be stocked at in-stores in the UK Tue Jul 30, 2013 9:40 am | |
| - Teckno wrote:
- Hmmmm, is the youtuber Nintondo still around?
Unfortunatelly, yes... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAwD7c6EvNSrIsi4wntjL9A/ | |
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RamboOnRedBull Final Boss, 5th Form
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| Subject: Re: Wii U consoles and games will no longer be stocked at in-stores in the UK Tue Jul 30, 2013 10:07 am | |
| The Wii-U will sell a lot, once it gets big game franchises coming to it.
Simple as that. | |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Wii U consoles and games will no longer be stocked at in-stores in the UK Tue Jul 30, 2013 2:54 pm | |
| ^^^
nah, it'll end up like the gamecube. which isn'ta bad thing. great games for the fans, but not money printers like the wii and 3DS |
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RamboOnRedBull Final Boss, 5th Form
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| Subject: Re: Wii U consoles and games will no longer be stocked at in-stores in the UK Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:15 pm | |
| ^^ It probably won't reach Wii-Status, but I'm quite confident it will still sell really well, once it gets some big game franchises to it. Not only that, but once Nintendo introduces a price-cut - Along with some SSB/Mario Kart - it will burn wallets. I'll bet you on that much. | |
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Chobo The Judge
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| Subject: Re: Wii U consoles and games will no longer be stocked at in-stores in the UK Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:18 pm | |
| Title is a bit misleading. It's not all stores in the UK, just one. And they're still selling games in store, just not consoles. | |
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