Switch Launch Sales Numbers are Manufactured?

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RolStoppable said:

ArnoldRimmer said:

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".

Then you don't understand what I've been saying. Nintendo didn't ship an insanely high amount of Wii Us; the numbers were similar to Switch. Your argument is of the belief that whatever gets shipped will be sold, but that doesn't work if the demand isn't there.

Another example would be the Xbox One launch in Japan where Microsoft shipped ~40k consoles and it took many months for the initial shipment to sell through. You'd be hard pressed to call 40k units an insanely high number when other consoles routinely launched to numbers of ~300k.

Now if the exception to your argument is always that there's no sufficient demand to break launch sales records, then the argument simply doesn't work in the first place. You and the OP assume that console manufacturers decide how high the launch sales are, but the prerequisite for that is that demand for the console definitely outpaces launch supply; in that case the console will be sold out in most places shortly after launch. But this is not always the case.

agreed

Plus, if all the people excited with the console are buying it now, the sales numbers will drop, so in the end the numbers will be balanced. We need to wait for the march complete figures.