are DS titles being understocked in the UK?

[mattSix]

for a number of reasons, i'm currently unable to purchase anything online, so i've been reduced to actually visiting local game stores for my fix... how 20th century is that!?

trawling the stores in broadmead (bristol city centre) this lunchtime, i was surprised to be struggling to find a copy of meteos, only 4 days after it's release...

the two 'game' stores had one copy between them (which i reserved & bought, so you're out of luck there!), zero at gamestation, eplay, cex & dixons. in fact, the only place with a copy on display anywhere was virgin.

i guess what disconcerted me the most was, if i hadn't already known it was released, i would have been none the wiser that a new ds title existed from my little tour...

what's going on here? have the general public caught on to the reported excellence of this title? are ds titles getting stocked in very low volumes? do game store buyers just have too many platforms to think about right now?

[EvilBoris]

stupid inconsiderate buyers for companies decided that it wasn't worth stocking many of, my local game shop got sent 1 copy on releaes

[charlesr]

Bit weird, cos Zookeeper is available without too much hassle.

[Family Fry]

Went i went to gamestation i spotted 4 copies all behind the counter, guy said it was because it didnt have a code or something like that, did that mean they couldnt put it out on the shelf?? hmmmm didnt stop them from selling it to me though.
Bloody good game too was playing it like mad yesterday, keep me going for a good hour!

[anephric]

Weird - there're loads in Derby.

[Flabio]

wherefore art thou meteos?

Erm, probably because they thought it was a good name for it.

(Sorry, had the fact that 'wherefore' doesn't mean 'where' drummed into me at school many years back, and now feel compelled to point it out whenever I can in order to look smug. I'll get me coat.)

[Ady]

I bought mine in Gamestation last Friday. Apparently it was the last copy. At midday.

[jcee]

Yeah we got sent 2 copies, and it does scan when you add a zero onto the front of the bar code fact fans

[Dezm0nd]

none in my town, but being Milton Keynes this area is now PSP chav central

[Paleface]

/me notes that Flabio got there first.

[anephric]

The grammar nazis, zey hav come to take you avay!

[mattSix]

'wherefore' doesn't mean 'where'...

fair play... your grammar is spot on.

i was trying to hint at the lack of romance in my questing for said cart by use of a inappropriate allusion, but clearly /me = phail.

but then /me has meteos, so it's all balancing out nicely, right?

I bought mine in Gamestation last Friday. Apparently it was the last copy. At midday.

that's shocking!

i've got a horrible feeling we might see the same thing happen to advance wars this friday...

[Nisa]

If the amount of copies of Advance Wars DS & Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow that came into my store today are any indication then it seems new DS titles are only being stocked in limited quantities, I think we got about half a dozen copies of Meteos in last week as well with no more shipped in this week.

Nintendogs is the only DS game that GAME are making any effort to promote at the moment.

[usman]

Etrange ca, Meteos is as readily available here across the pond (literally across the pond in Canada, the US isn't really 'across now is it? ) at retail as Mario 64 DS.

[Kotatsu Neko]

This is an import site isn't it...?

Why didn't you just import it months ago from Japan or the US?