Jimquisition: Nintendo - Jim Has Some Harsh Words About Nintendo (Nov. 28, 2016)

[Jizz_Beard_thePirate]

RavenXtra said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Yea but it is dependent on how they think it is going to sell to begin with... If they don't think its going to sell that much, they aren't going to order/make that much to begin with. They may have thought they didn't need to go through the trouble of having pre-orders avaliable everywhere due to what being the hardware is which is just a console that can play very old nes games which can be played very easily through many other means. I am sure the stores require a fee or something to make certain items avaliable for pre-order vs ones that don't so I say it is a cost cutting measure.

And I doubt they aren't going to ship anymore unless they really didn't think it wasn't going to sell that much and didn't order enough before hand.

I dunno.. that still doesn't look very good on Nintendo. Having little faith in such a nostalgia-bait impulse buy item seems very silly, especially when the thing is probably dirt cheap to produce. They're a huge company, they shouldn't be THIS bad at guaging consumer demand.

Not saying I like what they are doing but to me, it makes more sense than purposely doing it to so call "raise hype." If they have too much inventory lying around, specially during the holidays, they have to pay the fees until someone buys them. This becomes a bigger factor during holidays since shelf space is at a premium since everyone wants to be on there. Having something sell out is better for them as a business than overestimating something and let it sit there instead. Same goes for ordering a lot and not selling enough. 

Also considering how much they goofed the wiiU after the remarkable sales of the wii, I am not really surprised