tak13 said:
Apropos, open the link and read... Switch preparation and launch surely is related with 3ds stock situation but the main cause is Pokemon... https://www.polygon.com/2016/12/19/14006908/where-to-buy-a-nintendo-3ds It somewhere says about their FY16/17 forecasts 5m, 6m... They sold in 7.27m eventually ( 400k units more than last FY year, with 3DS being yoy down by 400k units in Japan...) !
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Interesting, but this makes even more unexplainable how Ninty managed 3DS, if a Pokémon title can still make it outsell predictions and planned production and cause successive shortages. Maybe that first unplanned early price cut, lowering also the base price from which successive planned cuts would start, made HW lifetime profitability drop below the minimum that Ninty considered not just safe (3DS eventually became profitable also on HW alone, so the minimum safe level was reached), but also desirable, so, even if successful, Ninty couldn't wait for replacing it with a more profitable platform, and having to replace Wii U anyway, making its successor a hybrid was the perfect solution. Just a guess for a possible other reason besides the usual Ninty fear of overproduction that often causes temporary shortages when a very successful HW selling game is launched.
