I'm a small videogame shop owner in Italy. I want to let you know more about how it works Nintendo. It's stupid because, because of this behaviour they lost lot of sales.
Christmas 2010, Art Academy DS came out in november, then at the end of the month Nintendo started do advertise it (I'm talking about Italy) but in the while they weren't shipping it into stores, they spended money to advertise a game that they didn't sent to store. People went crazy about this game, on eBay there were pieces at about 99 euros (29,99 was the suggested price) they didn't ship the game for the holidays, so people bought something other and when they finally decide to sent the game to stores (March 2011, 3 months later) nobody cares anymore about art academy. They lost an incredible amount of sales (and money).
Same with the NES Mini: The console was announced this summer, I call my supplier and placed a total of 150 units of the machine, and 140 pieces of the controller.
D1 I received: 12 NES mini and 4 controllers. To now I've received 4 more units of the console and zero controllers. I'm starting buying it from the other stores just to give them to my customers (I buy them at 60 euros and re-sell them to 60 euros, with no profit for me and this was the biggest launch if this year, totally burned).
This way of work it's totally insane and nosense. I've spent hours in phones and chat with my customers who preordered the NES mini since this summer to explain them that probably they won't have it for Christmas.
(sorry for my bad english)
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