You're not serious, right? Nintendo shipped 4 million Wiis by the end of 2006, 6 million units by the end of march 2007. It was manufactured 1,2 million units a month until 6/07, after that 1,8 million units a month until 6/08 when the production was ramped up to 2,4 million units a month. Nintendo was under heavier competition in Europe, so they kept the supply on a level they didn't lose any sales by not having a supply.

I don't think it's an attack to Nintendo, as much as it being attack to my intelligence. Just yesterday I helped my 12 year old kid in his homework, and frankly, even he could do better than that, as his homework needed to correlate with the real world.

In any case, just like the guy in the video thought, why it is only Nintendo creating artificial demand when being short on supply, why not others at same situation. Why did it work for Wii but not the Wii U.

Those were some insane numbers when you look back at PS4 launch.

I haven't been following PSVR sales at all so I have no idea beyond assumptions but is there even that much demand for PSVR? I mean even if it was readily available I doubt it would sell that well anyway from what I've seen. Sony probably doesn't want to be left with overstock the way they were with the Move controller. As far as I know the Move controller was way overshipped and in a way the PSVR is to the PS4 what the Move was to the PS3 except way more expensive. So if Sony did create artificial scarcity with PSVR it absolutely didn't have the intended effects lol Did Sony even ship new units since it's been sold out?

Just like when Nintendo releases a new hit game, its because "Nintendo fans" but when another company comes up with a new hit its because they know what the market wants.

I do think nintendos initial shipment of 2 million is very conservative and needs to be increased.

The thing is, it all depends on what you percieve the Switch to be. I know nintendo is trying to market this as a home console, but just as many people are going to see a super powerful handheld.
For reference the 3DS, wich launched in a very similar time window did 3,6 million in about 4 weeks at 250$ price tag. That was the most successfull console launch in history at the time. (Nintendo always has successful launches. The WiiU had a successfull launch, yet both systems still struggled for the next six months. 3DS managed to recover, WiiU didn't)

Also, the PS4 and Xone both had staggered releases, while the Switch at launch covers all major territories.

If you think the Switch is a home console, then yes ninteno stocked adequately to only slightly undestocked. But if you view it as a handheld nintendo is understocking by about 2 million.

We know Gamestop has a 250.000 people waiting list for the Switch already so we can safely say that in the US Nintendos initial Shipment will cover only 2/3 or less of the demand. They might be surprised by the high demand, but based off their expierience with handheldsystems they Shouldn't be. Seeing that they are releasing a hybrid system in all major territories at once initial Shipment should have been at least 3 million.

Nintendo still hasn't restocked many amiibos for absolutely no reason (except to create rarity of course but that suggestion is apparently not accepted by everyone). PSVR will eventually get more stock until most interested will have had the opportunity to get one (it's only been 3 months since it released and I just looked it up and Sony announced more incoming stock soon). Nintendo knows there's demand for those amiibos that have never seen big restocks but they're still sold out and some of them have never been readily available. For example Roy came out 1 year ago and I never saw him in stock (or I would have bought it) here in Canada. The only way must have been to pre-order him but even those were sold out quickly. So a whole year goes by without new stock for a product that was never supposed to be limited. And that goes for many other amiibos. It's certainly not a production restriction issue at this point or a fear they wouldn't sell.

https://www.amazon.de/Nintendo-2000666-amiibo-Smash-Roy/dp/B019MOC73W

Meanwhile he is so readily available in europe that you can almost get him at half price. In fact almost all Amiibo got major restocks over here after a while and havent been out of stock ever since.

If Nintendo intentionally understocks, they're pretty spotty about it.

I would assume Nintendo is a bit cautious with initial stock, because selling out initial stock sounds better than not, even if the numbers are higher

Kimishima did say he wanted 4(?)M units by the end of March, so they are still expecting it to do well

Creating a rarity is a whole different topic that limiting supply in order to try to create demand. Rarity means higher price on second hand market for a limited release, but the first hand seller is only losing sales. Are you sure the issue isn't with retailers? Not sure if Roy Amiibo would sell, other than the collectors would be buying them.

Lmao fuck! I just made a post about this. But yeah, no... the stock isn't low and anyone who thinks otherwise needs to do their homework and look at the business prospects. I'm pretty sure Kimishima doesn't hold the more conservative business practices that Iwata believed in.