ZombiU extended developer walkthrough

Just think ,if you worked at GameStop your life would be sweet. No working Saturday night,time to pick up and play your console and you wouldn’t be working for a company that expects its employees to work unsociable hours. Hope you are paid a % pay increase for the unsociable hours worked. Anyway enjoy you new console and console yourself with this disheartening fact. We Brits have to wait an agonising twelve long days longer than you lucky ducks.
Come 18 th nov Enjoy the Nintendeliscious Delights.

GameStop stores are required to hold games and consoles for preorder customers for a minimum of ’48 hours’ after launch. Most stores that I deal with print off receipts with the customer’s name to affix to the item in question. They may have made that mistake years ago, but they are under very strict guidelines to prevent that now.

What I find disgusting, and let me reiterate this part, is the blatant disregard for Nintendo fans. There has not been a midnight launch for a single, highly-anticipated Nintendo product in years. Despite high demand and high presales of games – like Mario Kart, Smash Bros., Kirby, Legend of Zelda, Pokemon, et cetera. Many games with higher presales than Halo or Call of Duty.

The Wii U is estimated to have presales at US retailer GameStop of nearly six digits. Halo 4 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 each had less than a quarter the number of the above estimate.

Now, I’m truly sorry that you have to work graveyard at Walmart. I know how hard it is to work that late. I had to as a guard from time to time, and that was when I was hired to work weekend dayshift. I specifically asked for Sunday off.

Regardless, in less than 48 hours, I’ll be waiting outside my local GameStop waiting to bust the door down in anticipation. I told my boss not to contact me because I’ll be comatose. I’ll immediately set up my Nintendo Network ID before taking my time setting the console up right. I’ll search around for demos of games I’m interested in before diving into Nintendo Land. I’ll throw in some ZombiU before I have to go to bed – early for me – to get up for a 12-hour shift Monday.

I probably won’t be able to touch my Wii U again until Thanksgiving because that’s my next day off before heading into work for another 12-hour shift Friday to greet customers at 6:00am when they try to bust down the doors of the store I work at – not to be related. Don’t even bother asking. I won’t divulge my retail chain.

GameStop needs to remember that Nintendo customers are a large portion of their base. The average games-per-console last generation was right around eight. The Wii was no exception.