LEGO City Goes A Little Too Undercover At North American Retail

A cancelled midnight launch? That's Australia's eShop every week.

@Grubdog LOL

And once again Nintendo can't anticipate success.

Thank goodness, I thought the first post was going to be a conspiracy theory.

My store should be stocking up on copies today.

An exclusive game came out for Wii U AND people are looking for it?

If I'm Nintendo I call that win-win, stock delays be damned.

Whoops. Hopefully NoE will learn from that and ensure there are enough copies for our release!

I doubt any gamestops canceled their midnight launch because of this, that night would have also been the midnight for Gears of War Judgment.

Retailers were telling everyone it was a shipping problem and that they weren't notified until the last minute. Wal-Mart seems to have it at most or all locations, and some people have reported success at Target.

EB up in Canada (at least the one near me) had a ton of copies.

I hope this doesn't effect the PAL launch of the game as I already have it preordered. Though I guess it won't matter that much since it'll arrive in the mail early to mid-April for me. That's the price of importing the Limited Edition for a cheaper price than what's available here at retail I guess haha.

It doesn't help that Nintendo has a whacked out release day schedule. I mean really! Who releases their products on Sunday or Monday here in the states??? The way I see it you run into two problems. The first is if it doesn't ship the week before and stock is on hand many days prior then it will be shipped late the next week. The problem with the former is if it does hit the stores early then it runs the risk of stores selling it early and breaking the street date. Nintendo doesn't want that so they choose to ship it on time which means here in the States ends up being late when most of the stuff comes out on Tuesday here! From what I've seen most stores around here get shipments on Tuesday and or Thursday.

After searching multiple toys r us & gamestops i found my copy @ the Nintendo store. Toys r us & gamestop both stated shipping problems like always

@Tech101 i agree i dont understand why most of nintendo game r released sun and mon when most stores receive their shipments tue and thurs

I got my copy at Walmart on opening day, They had like 5 left in stock.

3DS Daily warned that this would happen weeks ago:

http://nintendo3dsdaily.com/nintendoarticles/five-reasons-why-you-should-order-your-copy-of-lego-city-undercover-now/

If this was a shipping error, why were there indications this would happen so long ago?

Rats, I was going to pick it up tonight. I hope I can still find a copy!

With this and fire emblem it seems to me this is nintendo's plan. Create a scenario where customers are forced to buy the digital copy cause the physical copy is hard to find. By doing this nintendo is creating a scene where more and more people are turning to digital because then nintendo does not have to deal with used games and production cost.

That's because Chase wanted this to go undercover.

@Mr_G don't forget distribution!

@Mr_G and retail overhead!

Well at least Wii U games are selling/

Ya i cancelled my pre order and decided to just download it

You think with all this gaming "press" someone would have asked Nintendo or found out what the problem is. Instead we get @Mr_G spreading nonsense

Madness! This makes me feel all that much better about getting stuff from the eShop.

I saw a bunch of Future Shop and Best Buy when I was hunting down MH3U.

I thought it was odd when Target didn't have any copies.

This was Nintendo's plan all along wasn't it?

@Burning_Spear I have some friends that work at the Walmart near me, and what is annoying is that they actually HAVE it in stock, but it is in their back room, and not on the floor yet. Their staffing has been atrocious. I even gave it a day, and checked yesterday, but still nothing. It was surprising that I found Fire Emblem there.

@Skeletor Pretty sure that's just Walmart EVERYWHERE. I tried to buy my Wii U there. They were out of stock. Had to order online from Best Buy in the end.

Me: Do you know when you might have more in stock? Are you expecting a new shipment soon?

Employee: **shrugs**

Me: So, that's a no?

@Zellybeanie Something I was tempted to do, was to order online and do the pick up in store today option. That should light a fire under them. Unfortunately, it will be a fire of apathy. At least I can complain!

@Skeletor Want me to punch them in the taints on your behalf? I'd be thrilled to!

I hope you find it worth the wait. I'm utterly in love with the game.

I just want everyone to know that if you were told by GameStop that their ship was delayed that was more then likely a lie. GameStop will no longer stock a nintendo game unless there has been several pre-orders. There was only one need for speed most wanted at my store in viera Florida cause I pre-ordered it.

This wasn't an assumption or a thought. This was a fact.

Yeah my local Illinois Super Target didn't have them as I went to pick up Monster Hunter 3 but I overheard their electronics employees saying they were now allowed to put them on the shelf so I grabbed one with Monster Hunter & since they're having their 2 for 1 sale I got Most Wanted U as well. With my Target card I got all 3 for $123 & change. Also it seems according to dozens of Miiverse posts that retail outlets had them but weren't putting them on shelves til the 20th.

@Davidiam007 That's kinda sad. Why single out Nintendo?

How would this be nintendo's plan? Nintendo has always been more favorable over physical copies then downloading.

Cause things are slow right now, but that's how it is with new launches. It's seems like a lot of stores are pro playstation right now. Which makes me mad. A lot of the employees at GameStop know very little about the wii u which that doesn't help out at all. We need more pro active nintendo fans. Playstation doesn't have to advertise itself anymore most fans or store employees do that for them same with Xbox. Why? Because that's their favorite console and are comfortable about talking to the cst cause they know more about it and what's going in with the company. However a lot have no idea how their consoles specs work or its architecture, but they no their console is popular and has lots if games. Nintendo needs games and we will be getting them. What nintendo needs is sales people on their side that know what the hardware is capable of and what all the bells and whistles are.

Sales people push sales at a store at least that's what it use to be.

@Tasuki This is not them. Like I stated before retailers like GameStop aren't stocking a game unless there is demand for that game. This not an opinion. This is a fact.

The first "big" Wii U release since its launch four months ago, and they couldn't even get the copies in our hands. Get it together, Nintendo. It's like they WANT to fail.

@Mr_G & @Tasuki: I agree 100%, & I'm not liking this at all.

It makes sense that they do this for more digital sales. Nintendo is hurting and buying digital gets them more money. Its annoying but I understand why they are doing this. Look at all the people who bought it on eShop because of the delay.

This is ridiculous.If this is to get more download sales then they obviously don't know this pisses people off.Copies should've been in on launch day,especially with people reserving copies.My GameStop STILL has no copies yet.

Also,I don't have the memory to get the game on the eShop,so they need to get copies NOW.Not to mention,the guy at my GameStop said they had copies but weren't allowed to sell them yet.Then I come there and I find out I've been lied to.If I can't get a copy soon,then I'm demanding the money I put down to get it back.

Whoa what? Really? Hmmm.... That is slightly disappointing. I hope things get better in a few months when I will be able to get this game. Heh, maybe it's too good that it is rare on stock. jk

I went to two or three GameStops yesterday and got pissed when they all said that the shipment wasn't there yet. GOOD NEWS THOUGH, the guy at the counter said that one would get a shipment today (Wednesday) or Thursday.

I purchased Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate at Gamestop yesterday, and when I was browsing the Wii U section, I noticed I did not see LEGO City anywhere. When I was in line checking out the guy behind the counter was going through the motions of trying to get me to get their card, (I respectfully declined) he then proceeded to ask me if there was any games I wanted to pre-order and before I could let out a breath and say no, he was already going down the list. LEGO City was one of those games. I was thinking to myself wasn't that supposed to come out yesterday? I guess this news proves the point.........

I got it and Monster Hunter this morning at Target. Lucked out a bit since they were both the second to last copy. Target told me yesterday that they weren't able to sell LCU.....even though it was out and they had it. shrug whatever....fun game. Load times are indeed a little bit of a bummer but really not that big of a problem.

So other stores have it?Great,now I can't get my money back until they get it in.

Two Targets near me had it. Amazon was reporting delays in shipping. Unfortunate but it will clear up shortly. Is it still $10 more on the eShop though? That was off-putting.

I was lucky enough to find a copy at EB games (like game stop in Canada). It was their second last copy, but I'm lucky. It's really good.

I cannot bring myself to believe that this is a conspiracy to push consumers to digital. I would expect lower digital prices than retail to push us to digital. However, if this happens with Luigi's...

This happened to me, too. I preordered this game back on February 7, using my birthday giftcard on Amazon. But I got an email saying that the shipment has been delayed to between April 10 and April 17. Are you kidding me? I won't wait that long, so I cancelled that preorder and switched it to Monster Hunter Ultimate Wii U. Now I guess I just have to hunt for Lego City.

@Davidiam007 the only thing I don't get about your philosophy is that, I preordered mine and if they only stock former orders then I'd have any social copy right now

the samething happen to me with fire emblem

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@Davidiam007 the only thing I don't get about your philosophy is that, I preordered mine and if they only stock pre orders then I'd have any physical copy right now

No one in Madison, WI had it on Monday (I called everything from Best Buy to Target). However, everyone had it today (Wednesday), which happily includes me.

well, I know my local TARGET and Fred Meyers(an Oregon retailer) had the game--but I got my confirmation message from Gamestop--and called 2 local stores--and they said it'll be in Thursday

@astroshamu is a fact from a GameStop store manager who said its because sales have been slow that it would be a risk.

@Tasuki it's about preorders. My store had no preorders so they ordered none. There are more people who don't pre-order then those that do. Keep in mind I'm referring to GameStop.

Finally got this game and my free Chase McCain minifigure today.At least I'll have all weekend to play it.

This game is still hard to find