Animal Crossing New Leaf Sold Out, Over 200k in Digital Sales!

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Vinniegambini said:

RolStoppable said:

It's more like retailers determine the size of shipments, not publishers. That's why in Japan you constantly hear of games that receive additional shipments a couple of days after release day, because retailers underestimated demand, but the publisher already has more copies ready to be shipped. You can't order production of additional cartridges, manuals, boxes and ship it all within a couple of days to retailers.

Well what I was getting from the article (http://www.siliconera.com/2012/11/10/animal-crossing-new-leafs-first-shipment-is-500000-copies-in-japan/) is that Nintendo increased shipment based on pre-orders being high :(

True they did ship more but it is retail that must order them.  A store won't take a shipment of product they didn't order.  Think of the money angle.  Would Nintendo ship 300,000 new units without knowing if retailers are going to pay up?    That's about $15 million worth of product.  Those have to be bought first.