| SWORDF1SH said: About the 'March nonsense'! While I do agree some people are putting too much weight on that reason why it will be nowhere near PS4 launch numbers but it still will have some sort of effect releasing in March. There's no doubt that Switch would of sold more launching in November rather than March but by how much is another thing. |
That is true but it also doesn't matter. As i keep saying this is a console launch.
There are only so many consoles nintendo can make for a launch. And there are a lot of reasons why that is.
Console launches are more impacted by available stock than by the time of release. I am just shocked that this is a concept that seems to be lost on many here all of a sudden.
Look at it this way, the PS4 was $400 in november 2013. And it remained out of stock/hard to find till around May 2014. It was still $400. If between nov 2013 and may 2014 it had sold through 8M consoles worlwide, all the while with stores not being able to keep them on shelves cause once new stock comes in its being sold. What that means is that if on launch day sony had 7M consoles available worldwide, there were 7M people willing to buy the console on day one at full price. But the reason they couldn't do that was because they couldn't make that many all at once.
Thats the same thing thats happenning now with the NS. If you could walk into a store right no and see a pile of NS consoles on the floor somewhere, then yes; we could say releasing in the fall could have helped. But the thing is sold out everywhere. people are still pre-ordering for it. That means its launch has been in no way impacted by the time of the year it was released.
