RolStoppable said:
That's not how it works, so give it a rest. |
Actually it is how it works. Big companies like Nintendo flex their muscle all the time to get a certain shipment if they want it.
This to me seems like a new strategy at Nintendo to limit retail copies and push people to buy digital copies of more niche software. It equates to a higher profit per sale for them.
Which I don't mind per se either as long as it hopefully ensures situations like the Xenoblade/Last Story/Project: Rainfall thing don't happen. Digital distribution combined with a limited print of physical copies is an acceptable solution to releasing games that Nintendo perhaps feels there isn't much of a market for (though it begs the question why Nintendo greenlights games seemingly continually that they then have almost no interest in marketing or trying to sell later on).
