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

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Nuvendil said:

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. 

I don't think he's talking about the Switch there, he's suggesting the mothod of providing shipments constantly is 'sort of' outplaying the algorythm. But it's not though because that's what the algorythm is clearly meant to reflect.