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There's plenty of stock in smaller countries. I live in New Zealand and if I walk into any electronics retailer, I'm guaranteed to see a bunch of these in the g

There's plenty of stock in smaller countries. I live in New Zealand and if I walk into any electronics retailer, I'm guaranteed to see a bunch of these in the gaming section. I've heard similar stories from people that live outside of the US.

dcw303 10y ago
Thanks, that's an interesting data point. But it kinda does justify the view that they are bungling this release if they have stock left on shelves in those countries while those in US / Japan (where I am) can only resort to buying in secondary markets.
- foota 10y ago
  It could be that the capacity necessary for the smaller countries is insignificant, and that giving them a large number of consoles to last a while was more effective
  - jononor 10y ago
    No point in shipping half-full containers.
koffiezet 10y ago
Not here in Belgium... I had to hunt one down a week after release - everywhere out of stock, and it doesn't seem like the stores were restocked sufficiently and all new consoles went to pre-orders. Even phyisical copies of Zelda are very hard to find, and with Nintendo's crazy download pricing - I wanted a physical copy (70 eur for the downloadable version of the game vs 60 for the physical - really?).