Why i'm probably not getting Fire emblem Fates

[MTZehvor]

Nem said:

MTZehvor said:

What would you even have Nintendo say, though? They have no idea how the retailers will handle distribution. Just have Nintendo give you their best guess on how the retailers will divy up the few special editions they have? The retailers are the only one with a hand in the actual selling to consumer process; Nintendo has no say in whether the special editions are given to those with existing pre-orders or just stuck online for five minutes before they all immediately sell out.

SE will be available at retailers after this ND... or at day X... or even during month Y. Nintendo does determine how many copies each retailer gets. They themselves said that. They said that Nintendo alocates a number of SE's per country and each retailer on that country gets a certain share. So, its not about number of pre-orders each retailer has or anything.

As for giving to pre-order or making it available you are right. As there were both. But it was a situation created by Nintendo for having withheld the availability of the SE's when they announced them nor giving any sort of estimate on their availability.

I'd be interested in getting a source on Nintendo determining how many copies each retailer gets, because that's usually not the case with SEs.

Regardless, announcing the limitedness of it would probably have made things even worse. Would have encouraged scalpers along with the usual frenzy of buyers.