SpokenTruth said:
So you think they had plans in motion only prior to launch? Each wave had a planned production run based on initial retailer demand You can't call up the production company, scrap all your orignal contract obligations, reorganize every wave, every character for every region...and adjust accordingly. At least not without major expenses that could easily end up negating the profits gained from the increased sales. Let me ask, do any of us have any idea what the production capacity of the production company is? How many different characters can they develop simultanesouly? How many distribution channels do they have regionally? Globally? Say they ramp up production somehow, can the distribution channel handle the increased load? Seriously, if it were so damn simple as flipping a production switch, they'd have done it by now. But of course, Nintendo is wholly at fault. There are no logistics or production or business issues to consider. That's to real world for people to give a damn about Let's just finger point a target and play the blame game because it's easier. |
If you truly think that their vendor wouldn't accomodate more orders, then you're crazy. If their current vendor is unable to do it all in-house, it would be partially outsourced like all 3rd party vendors.
It's already been shown that Nintendo lags far behind the less popular Skylanders series in terms of production, so I don't think you can target the incapability to produce more.
It's always more than flipping a switch, but you expect a lot more out a billion dollar company. It's to the point where they're embracing the situation and the heightened demand partially attributed to the low supply. It's a very common tactic, and I don't see why anyone would defend it as anything otherwise (unless you truly just believe it's just incomptence).
