Amazon U.S. January bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion

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GribbleGrunger said:

palou said:

Nintendo has the habit of releasing their preorders in little jolts, never enough to actully satisfy demand. Microsof/Sony don't do this - they just put all of them up for preorder, untill its gone. In a sense, they ARE actually pinning their console on the charts artificially for advertisement, not by manipulating the algorithm, but by outplaying it.

What? No they're not. The console has to sell consistantly for it to stay in the charts so it's a fair representation of its popularity.

Well yes, but there is a small grain of truth to this.  If the Switch is selling well, by increasing preorders available in waves, they get to be in the top 100 in the hourlies longer than if they put it all out and they sold out.  Yeah, the position in the yearly would be the same but the position in the hourly is what most will see. 

However, I don't think that's the reasoning.  It's more about avoiding overstock since this is March, not November, so there's no guaranteed high spending here.  Overstock could be a real issue.  So I think Nintendo is more trying to feel out the precise demand.