I gave you good and logical possibilities why that maybe would make sense, and why thats not throwing away money, you ignoried all that and you were acting like evrething was set in stone, lol. Again, you dont know that, if plan from start would be holiday season launch and around 4m prepared consoles from launch. Again, Nintendo never didnt said they couldn't produce more than 2m for Switch launch, just that initial plan was to prepare 2m for launch and that they later had problem to increase that number, but if initial plan was to have bigger number stock for launch they could probably prepare more. Stock problem after launch is different thing, because maybe they had plan  to produce around 500k per month and they needed much more than that beacuse console was selling better than 500k and and factories couldn't start producing much more than that so soon.

The months are about right. You need months to get a contract with a manufacturer, get the supply chain running, get the quality in order and so on. Then you have shipping, that probably takes around a month. So between the decision in Sony or Nintendo headquarter: 'we need more units' and more units hitting the market I would guess 3-6 months. And it's still a guessing game, you have to guess right how much more demand you have to meet, otherwise you sit on unsold inventory and that costs too.

As I said Wii was an outlier. What happened there, your guess is as good as mine. But what we see from PS4 and Switch is what to expect from successful consoles.

But back to the argument that holidays have no impact at sales at launch because of supply constraints: that assumes fixed production capacities. That would mean thought through, that if demand is lower than workers at Sony or Nintendo sit around, as they have nothing to do. Obviously production capacity can be scaled to demand, as it is given to outside companies doing that stuff. So supply constraints are mainly a wrong guess about the demand.

No, I gave you good and logical possibilities why that maybe would make sense, and why thats not throwing away money, you ignored all that and you were acting like everything was set in stone. It's pointless to reply any more on this matter.

Again, initial stock plan for launch, and increasing production after launch are two totally different things.

I used that number like example production after launch where they selling everything they ship and they need higher production, not before launch.

you reaally don'yt know how console launches work do you?

ok, indulge me.... if nintendo just decided to prepare only 2M for launch even if they could have made double that..... why didn't they ramp up production anytime during the next 6 months after launch when the console was still in short supply?

And you do know that none of these companies are ever in a position to start manufacturing months ahead of time and just stockpiling the hardware right? It just doesn't work that way. Think of it this way, these things are "stored" when they are on the sea making their trip from factory to retailer. 

I could say same thing for you.

Because preparing stock for launch from initial stock plan is not same like ramping up production after launch. I mean they made contract something similar like this, to produce and to prepare 2m consoles for launch, and then after launch producing around 500k consoles per month. But if contract and plan from start was something like, 4m for launch and than after launch producing 1m per month that we probably wouldn't had stock problems. So my point is simple, if actual launch was during holiday season, plan from start (so we dont talking here about increasing production because we talking about initial plan) could be easily be to produce and prepare 4m consoles for launch. Ofcourse if Nintendo were aiming for holiday launch they would aim from start around 4m consoles for launch instead 2m, because they know they would easily much more consoles during holiday season compared to mauch.

I could say same thing for you.

Because preparing stock for launch from initial stock plan is not same like ramping up production after launch. I mean they made contract something similar like this, to produce and to prepare 2m consoles for launch, and then after launch producing around 500k consoles per month. But if contract and plan from start was something like, 4m for launch and than after launch producing 1m per month that we probably wouldn't had stock problems. So my point is simple, if actual launch was during holiday season, plan from start (so we dont talking here about increasing production because we talking about initial plan) could be easily be to produce and prepare 4m consoles for launch. Ofcourse if Nintendo were aiming for holiday launch they would aim from start around 4m consoles for launch instead 2m, because they know they would easily much more consoles during holiday season compared to mauch.

lol thats not true at all, ps2, 360, ps4 and wii, all were sold out at launch, just because your launching during the holidays doesn't mean they will ample stock, infact its pretty damn rare.

I don't see how what you wrote has anything with what I wrote. Point that all those consoles wouldn't had so great launch sales if they were launched outside holiday season.

lol thats not true at all, ps2, 360, ps4 and wii, all were sold out at launch, just because your launching during the holidays doesn't mean they will ample stock, infact its pretty damn rare.

I don't see how what you wrote has anything with what I wrote. Point that all those consoles wouldn't had so great launch sales if they were launched outside holiday season.