Remember we discussed poor game availability in the UK? How Amazon for anything Nintendo or remotely not FIFA or CoD was mandatory? Well...
Given my history with Amazon cocking up deliveries to wrong houses, saying its arrived but shows up days after, left on my neighbours step despite saying "delivered to occupant" or the now immortal no one in the UK bar an indie seller had KH1.5+2.5, I waited to get Hyrule Warriors.
I ordered it. Friday at 2am. Its now Sunday past 4am. Not yet dispatched. Paying for expedited delivery to arrive by Tuesday, we are taking bets when it actually arrives.
Bar is close to saying dispatched but I check the store page and...out of stock. Same thing with Kingdom Hearts.
The order will be cancelled tomorrow. Mark my words.
The game came out on the 18th. It is the UK. What did they ship 12 copies for the month?
@RogerRoger Ordered Sushi Striker, Crash and Captain Toad via Amazon. All pre-orders. The only one listed to arrive on release is Crash. The other two? Day after at the earliest.
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@YummyHappyPills Yikes. Given that Sushi Striker and Captain Toad are first-party releases, I can see why you gave Nintendo the credit for forcing your hand towards a digital download.
There's the evidence. We're not about to go fully digital; we're well underway already.
"We want different things, Crosshair. That doesn't mean that we have to be enemies."
@RogerRoger I understand why Nintendo is shopping first party titles as close to release date as possible - did you SEE all the leaks last year from titles let out early by stores? That I get.
What I dont get is the terrible stock immediately after, because Nintendo + UK isn't exactly a hot seller. Of course THAT I can also quite easily label on Amazon because...well lets be real about how bad Amazon has proven to be to me in the past eh?
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@YummyHappyPills Not just to you; Amazon have had pretty terrible moments for a lot of folk over the years (that being said, your history with them has been particularly rough).
I wonder how many copies of games are considered to be a "standard" shipment for retailers?
"We want different things, Crosshair. That doesn't mean that we have to be enemies."
@YummyHappyPills Well, in that case don't use Amazon if you think they screw up every time. There are plenty of other sites that sell video games. Complaining about it no end won't resolve your issue either.
Standard shipment per store would be no more than 20 for a Nintendo title if that. Back in the Wii U days I was the only one so...it was like 5 total.
For Amazon, a regional distributor, it must be in the thousands surely?
One would think, or at least hope. Low stock alerts are all-too-common on Amazon nowadays, however, and they rely on the third-party Amazon Marketplace to pick up the slack.
Does make me wonder sometimes.
"We want different things, Crosshair. That doesn't mean that we have to be enemies."
@RogerRoger Well with the Kingdom Hearts thing they didn't change the listing. Said it was in stock then revealed it hadn't been for some time...
@Octane at this point I'm just not doing delivery anymore. It's become too high risk. Heck, you'll laugh at this.
My mother ordered a vivarium for our lizard Axel. It arrived a day late, delivered to this poor old lady in the wrong postcode a few streets away.
By Yodel.
Royal Mail sometimes, depending on the post-person, doesn't bother delivering at all, or using the storage box as requested. DPD delivers to the wrong postcode or not at all until a later day. With Hermes, good look getting anything on time.
I seriously am just either travelling several towns over to go to a store, or digital, because as it stands, apparently many couriers dont fancy driving off of the main road, past the park and down the street to our cul-de-sac.
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@YummyHappyPills Another alternative is having it delivered at a pick-up point. Even the smallest towns have one, so I'm sure there's one in your town. Then you can pick it up at your own leisure.
@Octane Turns out we did have one. The local enquiries office moved to outside of town...so the nearest one is a bus ride away at which point I may as well just go to a store.
Middle of nowhere is fantastic.
We dont even have our own local police for crying out loud XD
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I just went a on a “action VR” ride at Bush Gardens. It was alright, fun and enjoyed the screaming, but the sense of scale felt off. You ride a dragon and fight a troll who’s stealing a powerful scourge of magic. Maybe they didn’t want to to be too scary since it’s cartoony, but some more oomph to the experiences would have been good. I also didn’t feel like reaching out in front of me like I did when I tried Skyrim VR. As I said, I enjoyed it, but I’d probably rather have tried 5 minutes of Farpoint instead. Which isn’t good for a theme park.
The rides are fantastic aside for though. Griffin is particularly good if anyone else has been to Bush Gardens.
@WanderingBullet Well, Clover Studio made Okami under Capcom, and later they formed Platinum Games as an independent studio, so it does make sense. I thought it was the art style alone at first, but when I saw that gameplay trailer, it's almost like an Okami spin-off or sequel. Even the music is very similar!
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