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With Wii U now sold out in many shops across the UK, Nintendo is now rushing to refill high street stores and the warehouses of online chains. It has predicted a worldwide shipment of 3.5 million consoles by the end of the year, and 5.5 million by the end of the financial year in March. But how many of these will be snapped up by shoppers?Eurogamer has canvassed the opinion of high street retailers and entertainment analysts to find out - and discover what could be to blame if Nintendo is left with piles of unwanted consoles after the initial launch rush.
"There are enough hardcore fans to buy the first 3 million consoles, and probably enough to buy the first five million," famed gaming analyst Michael Pachter, boss of Equity Research at Wedbush Securities reasoned, staring into his crystal ball. "My guess is that they will sell out by April."
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