Resume of previous post.
Man, nintendo screwed up
- Iwata apologies for New Leaf shortages
- The game saves more items and swapped villages, houses with a special type of ROM card with SLC-NAND to store such big save data
- NAND is flash memory, as used in SD cards, USB key drives, SSDs
- SLC-NAND is durable and has large area for volume
- MLC-NAND sacrifices durability for greater data density
- Supplies for SLC-NAND, controller chip were within estimates
- Sales greatly exceeded estimates
- Replenishing supplies will take several months, won’t be resolved soon
- Nintendo is adjusting production volume allocation between Animal Crossing and other SLC-NAND games, but not giving AC a production monopoly
- Iwata reminds consumers that the game can be downloaded on the eShop
- There are download cards at retail which may sell out, but there will be plentiful resupplies for year-end
- It’s possible to buy download codes online
- Limited-time downloadable presents and Seven-Eleven-exclusive presents will be redistributed at a later date
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