Pavolink said:
Joe Schiaffi said:
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.
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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.
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Sounds like nonsense. Why would a small store in Italy order 150 units of NES mini and 140 controllers. This isn't Nintendo's next zomg console... And not to mention that you said so yourself there weren't pre-orders avaliable WW... So why would a small store be reserving pre-orders when a) He knows Nintendo has done this previously, b) Orders 150 units based on what exactly? and c) Why would he risk customer dissatisfaction if Nintendo wasn't doing pre-orders?
Also whats even more interesting is that I just called my local ebgames and they said they only got 3 of them... So an eb games store in Canada which is the canadian gamestop gets only 3 but a small video game store in Italy gets 12? I am pretty skeptical...
But even if it were all true, it would continue to be dependent on Nintendo's estimates... Because it is Nintendo who needs to tell the manufacturer how much of each to make and then the manufacturer has to make them and etc. So if Nintendo predicts it is going to sell a blah amount, they will sign a contract with someone who has to meet a certain target by a certain time. I am pretty sure this has to be pre-planned before they officially announce it considering how we have had reports of manufacturers saying they will ship blah amount of say NX before the NX even got officially announced.
So when Nintendo announces it and the demand is higher than expected, they need to get more manufacturers or resign the contract which takes time cause they need more factories and etc. So even if it were all true, it would still be left to Nintendo's estimates and these things aren't made by using magic so they take time to get made and shipped and etc...
