Barozi said:
padib said:
It's possible that I don't grasp the figure of twenty thousand.
Why does everything have to be crazy or excuse? You really need to cool down on that antagonizing.
I am not convinced just because you are saying that others will scream overtracked at another number.
We went over the figures earlier, you said that 10k is like 190 U's per american state. Is that too small a number to you? What is your opinion on warehousing and surplus stock, do you have any? Or are you just using peoples' feelings in the past to justify your logic? You know that people can get emotional about these things (especially when it came to PS3 vs X360), so I don't think it's super-reliable an argument, to me at least.
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Walmart has over 4000 stores in the US
Gamestop ~4500 stores in the US
Best Buy over 1000 stores in the US
Adding all other consumer electronic retail chains,
self-employed retailers,
Amazon and other online-only shops,
you'll come to the conclusion that in every single US store, there's less than one WiiU (probably closer to 0.5 WiiUs) in stock on average.
An incredibly unrealistic scenario.
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Is it really though? The MK8 boost anyway you look at it is pretty incredible and took many retailers by surprise I'd imagine.
Though that doesn't change the fact many retailers stayed pretty cagey on stocking more Wii U & Nintendo undershipping a product isn't a uniquely new. This entire year, I very seldom see a retailer stock any more than 3 Wii U at a time. So to me, a small number on shelves end of June, in the midst of a MK8 frenzy, makes sense.
Based on Nintendo's current high inventory levels and overall bad sales of Wii U, retailers have some leverage against Ninty. And even for as good MK8 has been, at the end of the day retailers know the Wii U product line to be pretty slow moving and don't want to massively outpace stock to demand just based on stronger than usual sales for a 2-4 week time frame.
