Max King of the Wild said:
DietSoap said:
UncleScrooge said:
Guys... what the hell? the *Stores* decide how many copies they want to order! This is not Nintendo's decision, japanese retail stores simply didn't order more than 30k copies. What is Nintendo supposed to do? Increase the shipment twofold without asking retailers?  |
Technically we don't know if this is how much the stores actuallly requested, or if stores requested more and yet Nintendo decided to hold off to create demand for the digital version.
If stores in Japan requested over 60k for the 360 version of Bayonetta, I have a real hard time believing stores didn't request more for an entirely exclusive Platinum game on a system that's nowhere near the 360's level of failure in Japan.
Either they're driving up demand for the digital version by starving retail, or they didn't market the game anywhere near as much as they should have.
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or the more likely scenario is the stores order as much to cover as many as the preorders are suggesting it will sell
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There's no way of proving what's more likely here, the only way things can be proven one way or another is for Nintendo to unveil the orders they got themselves.
Now what do I think is the case? I think they truthfully didn't get many orders, but it's because they didn't market. If they can't get more orders than a multiplatform 360 game in Japan, then that points to serious failures on their part.
