More than 250,000 on GameStop Wii U waitlist

Huh.... they were easy to get. I got 2 of them. Then again I was first in line and only stood out in the cold for only 3 hours with 8 other people.

I will pick New Super Mario Bros U and ZombiU , its so sad that Aliens Colonial marines will be launched later december.

I wanted to get one on Day One, but the woman shut that down quickly.  Oddly enough, one of her arguments against my getting a Wii U was that "You don't even play with the Wii anymore!"

Touche.

Not surprising to hear about these numbers

And this is exactly the reason that I preordered mine on day one. I wasn't able to get a Wii for almost a year after it launched due to Nintendo's shortage. (Regardless if it was a shortage made by Nintendo or not.)

I wish I pre-ordered one so I could turn around and sell it on eBay and make double my money back. Dammit!

Oddly enough I'm not excited enough about this console to get it on launch day. While I'm excited to see what it can do, I'll wait for Zelda, Mario (galaxy), or Smash Bros, before I buy it. I guess a Mario Kart game could entice me as well. I'm not waiting for a price drop, just waiting for a game I will actually play.

Here's the sentence that makes this article irrelevant:

"It was not announced how many Wii U units GameStop had available for preorder to begin with."

Without context, that 250,000 number is meaningless. Did they have 100,000 or 1,000,000 available before they had to start adding to a wait-list. We don't know.

The 360 sold 2.5 million units in the U.S. in its 1st 90 says.

The 360 sold 1.9 million units in the U.S. in November 2011.

There is no fan-boy-isms going on here, I just want some context.

250,000 on a wait list means nothing when you're talking about millions of actual sales from competing products.

I'd hate to be the guy who's in charge of makin either PS4 or Xbox720 a success!

Anyways, I got my Wii U pre-orderd. so yay ^^

I wonder how the pre-orders will be handled because i pre-ordered mine the day the pre-orders were announced.

I see redemption here.

I think that Wii u Hatred was started By gamespot because Some Editors did not liked It they made Wii u bad name and now Some kids Flame war again because of what Gamespot thinks about wii u that's not professional :) 

As i rememeber psp had Demo's Only at launch, Neither ps 3 and xbox 360 had many games, xbox was 500$ with wifi and ps 3 cost 600$, Neither ps 2 had many games, original xbox had only Micrsoft developed games at start so stop Whining about that. 

I'ts Funny how Sony and microsoft fans are Raging and hate what they see expt their fan system. I'm PC gamer i must bash and rage on consoles? nope i should not.

Manny will enjoy with wii u, PPL don't understand that Wii u will sell anyway good enough, and there will be manny games, Start games are Not manny but it will grow like it was with wii. You don't like wii u ? waiting till 2015-2016 year for next gen GL Do't bash Wii u even without try to test it.

Never knew how  popular the Wii U was going to be. Only wish now that I preordered sooner.

not surprising, played with the wii u for about 30 min at gamestop with a friend. it was really fun, which is what gaming is about.

meh

Yes, the other part of the population of gamers is cradling their tablets smugly and playing a larger selection of games while not limited to one very narrow scope of actual utility...or not bothering with the endless labyrinth of tablet games.

250,000 people who will get the Wii U home and come back the next day wanting the standard controller. I guarantee it. Nintendo need's to learn a lesson that gimmicks DONT make good games.

I hope Nintendo does well with the system, but I hope those sales are deserved and Nintendo does more than they did with the Wii.

Nintendo better make the most of their 2 year window. When 2014 comes it's gameover. Microsoft is coming. Nintendo's one trick pony won't save them this time.

All aboard the failboat. 

Oh man, I hope I won't be waiting 6 months to get one. TO THE WAITLIST, AWAY!!!! >:O

Damn this thing is gonna feel so good in my pants.

I just went to Gamestop today and played the Wii U. Now I am definitely buying it as soon as possible. :D

The question is how many did they actually make available for preorder in the first place? Smells like a intended scarcity again like with the wii. I'm not buying into this.

The final question is how many will they sell after the fanboy holiday is over and the core market doesn't bother? I smell a price drop or bust.