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Late again. Nintendo is comically bad at meeting demand. Every time they have a highly anticipated product release, there are many multiples fewer products on
by Karunamon 10y ago
Late again. Nintendo is comically bad at meeting demand.
Every time they have a highly anticipated product release, there are many multiples fewer products on the shelves than there is demand, for months at a time, and meanwhile, eBay prices spike to 200%+ retail. Meanwhile, consumers are disappointed/annoyed, scalpers profit, and Nintendo leaves money on the table.
I wonder how many Switches haven't been sold since people got tired of waiting and just picked up Breath of the Wild for the Wii U, which is now going for fire sale prices?
- deelowe 10y agoNintendo refuses to take a loss, so they are extremely conservative with their inventory. I'm sure they have their reasons for doing this, but man I wonder if it's going to seriously hurt them long term.
- jayflux 10y agoYeah I agree, I know some who stopped bothering to ring up stores and ask if they had switches in stock and just bought something else. They've under-stocked by a large margin and I wonder how much they've lost doing that.