Switch Launch Sales Numbers are Manufactured?

[ArnoldRimmer]

RolStoppable said:

ArnoldRimmer said:

It's the video game console manufacturer themselves who determine their launch sales numbers.
Because unless the producer would ship an insanely high amount of hardware units for launch, it's guaranteed that your product will get sold out in most places shortly after launch - so the launch sales numbers are more or less identical to the numbers of units shipped for launch.

Too bad that the Wii U had equal or higher stock than Switch at launch and didn't get the launch records, so it's definitely not up to console manufacturers to determine their launch sales numbers. Of course, they can ship a high enough number of units to beat previous records, but selling them is an entirely different story.

Take Europe for example. Wii U stock for the holiday quarter was big enough to get all launch sales records, but not only did the Wii U fail to get them

As I get it, you're basically just confirming my posting by saying that the WiiU launch was very much an exception from the usual console launches, as Nintendo did indeed "ship an insanely high amount of hardware units for launch" - resulting in the WiiU being one of the few consoles not being"sold out in most places shortly after launch".