Nintendo Switch Selling Out Due To Intentionally Low Stock? Think Again

[Boutros]

RolStoppable said:

Boutros said:

Seriously that's his argument? rofl

When the COO of Gamestop tells you that Nintendo is intentionally understocking the Wii and you're still denying it..

Also if you followed the amiibo craze you'd know how brilliant Nintendo handled that.

That is your argument? A COO saying that he thinks that Nintendo did that, but then the aftermath is clearly proving him wrong because the Wii was produced at almost twice the rate of the PS2 and still sold out? You can't intentionally understock by producing and selling at a much higher rate than anything that came before it.

I was waiting for someone to fall into the Wii trap. Didn't expect it to be you though.

You sure can lol...Why couldn't they? If they can evaluate the demand correctly and accurately they can both sell a lot of units as well as ship just a little below demand to keep that hard-to-find status. Many shipments of fewer units allows to gauge that easily.

I honestly can't believe people are actually denying that Nintendo has been creating artificial scarcity especially since they've been doing it forever (it goes back to the NES era). And I also don't understand why people see this as an attack to Nintendo. I think it's a brilliant strategy that few companies could pull off as well.

But the first allocation of Switch being sold out doesn't mean anything yet.