Intrinsic said:
Its been a while since I finished basic economics... but from what i remember of demand and supply..... there is a difference with something being in high deman and something not meeting demand. Being in high demand means that even though supply is nominal or above average the demand for the product is still so great that there will be shortages. Not meeting demand (as a result of being supply constrained) is when there isn't enough of a product made to meet the demand for that product. Now my reasoning is this...... We are in the launch window of the Switch. There is a certain number of consoles that if nintendo made and shippsed would be sold out instantly. This number may be 1M, 2m or even 5M. This is the number of people that will buy that console regardless of anything at a specific price point. These people aren't wating for the price to drop or any number of games to become available. They will buy the console as it is there and then. I believe nintendo has not shipped enough consoles to meet that initial demand. As such why its supply constrained. I believe you can't just walk into any store in japan and walk out with a switch, meaning there aren't enough of them in th wild. Mind you, thisis still a really good problem for launch hardware to have. I just feel you can't possibly have launch hardware that is obviously supply constrained and not see great numbers. They are basically selling them as fast as they can makee them available. Hence whyI keep saying its too early to take any of this to mean anything. Just to be clear, before you start thinking I am trying to shit on anyones parade.... I said the sme thing against the PS4/Xb1. |
Currently Switch is doing well even we know that is supply constrained, and it will be going better when there is not supply constrained and when MK8D arrives in 3 weeks, its seems there is pretty strong demand for Switch in Japan.
