Nintendo May Be In Trouble When It Comes To Wii U's Initial Demand. (Updated With A UK Auction

[pokoko]

superchunk said:

pokoko said:
I wonder if part of the initial demand, especially with pre-orders, was heavily pushed by people intending to resell. Because of the Wii, the Wii U might have seen atypically large amounts of sales to people who wanted to turn around and re-sell right away. This would account for the low price on eBaby. I would love to know what percentage of the original shipment was purchased for this purpose.

Considering launch day/week had 400k sold and there was only a couple thousand on Ebay... I think not.

That would be assuming all re-sellers only bought one Wii U to re-sell, wouldn't it?  I know of some who bought 3 or 4, and I'm sure there were those who went higher than that.  There really is no way to know.  My point is, for all those sold to re-sellers someone else got pushed back on the waiting list.  It didn't fully create the outages, of course, but it did extend the demand beyond what it should have been.

Also, could some of those bought for re-sell have been returned, thus adding to the confusion of sold out/not sold out?  It just seems to me that this situation gets a lot more murky because of these parasites.