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Soundwave on 28 March 2017
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Eagle367 said:
Soundwave said:

When you have such limited stock (2 million works out to about 650k per territory) it doesn't really matter which month you launch in if you have a big Nintendo game that will bring out the Nintendo faithful. 

Wii U would've sold 2 million in March 2013 if Nintendo had launched it with Zelda: Skyward Sword. 

We know the Nintendo/Zelda faithful need their system, by June/July we will have a better idea of whether or not regular consumers are buying in huge numbers provided stock has normalized. 

This happened with Amiibo too, Nintendo undershipped initially, which then caused people to want them more because they couldn't get them, and for a while you had to line up or get to stores early in the morning to get any new Amiibo shipment, but after a few months once supply evened out we had a clearer picture of where Amiibo stands in the market. When you tell people who are kinda on the fence about something they can't have it, it tends to increase demand artifically for a little while. In any case all of these questions will be answered in due time one way or another. 

Two things:

Nintendo has increased their stocks for the switch supposedly by a lot compared to 2 million.

Second thing is during investor's meeting Nintendo always and I mean always reveals the number of consoles sold. That is why they feel no need to tell it to us as of this moment. You can see the number so if it is 2.05 million rather than 2, you'll know and it won't be that much but if it's 2.5 million or 3 million we'll also know. 

The thing about Nintendo artificially reducing stalk is bullshit. It's just that demand really was higher than reason indicated. If it was undershipped, it wouldn't have been the best selling console launch for an obscure country like Spain. If Nintendo wanted to undership, why would you send more consoles than sony did with ps4 to a place irrelevent to Nintendo like Spain? Have you even heard of Spain in relation to Nintendo and it being good before? It also was the best launch week compared to all other Nintendo consoles in USA. If Nintendo sold better than all consoles in one obscure terrority and it sold more than any of it's previous consoles in it's largest sellig territory. In France as well it sold more than other Nintendo consoles. And in one week it sold 1.5 million in the month of MARCH, where and how in the hell did Nintendo artificially undership? If all of that is undershipping then Nintendo must have been psychic to know that it would sell that well compared to the previous commercial failure of the Wii U. If you really want to press home th epoint that Nintendo will spin consoles sold, they simply can't. That's it. If they wanted to spin, they'd do it when Wii U sold like Garbage, but they didn't. Why would they do it with one of it's best console launches ever. The investor's meeting will reveal everything

We don't know what they've increased production to, assuming it's still in the 2 million range that's still a pretty small amount of stock per territory when you break it down. 

PS4, XB1, Switch have all successful launch windows, I think the main take away is aiming at core/enthusiast gamers for launch is the best way to go. By having Zelda: BotW at launch, Nintendo ensured the first 2-3 million units are a pretty easy sale. We need to see where it goes after that. 

Wii U and 3DS had failed launches because Nintendo banked on casuals/"expanded audience" gamers by making Nintendogs + Cats and Nintendo Land + NSMBU the lead launch games in the era of the smartphone and thought they would be evergreen hits like that style of game was for the DS and Wii. They did not understand that market had moved on. 

You need to excite enthusiast gamers to your product in this day and age, and Zelda: BotW does that. It is Nintendo's most epic game arguably and one of its hardest and least forgiving, this is something made for the extreme gamer. That's what gets people excited though.