NATO said:
I'm wrong to say there were long queues for those consoles? I beg to differ, considering I was fucking *IN* said queues. Google image search for : "PS4 japan queues", "vita japan queues", "WiiU Japan queues", "3ds japan queues", and you'll find plenty of photos taken of the queues, then search for "xbox one japan queues", and you'll be treated to these:
To date this was the biggest queue anyone photographed of the xbox one launch in Japan:
And you can pretty much go to any major electronics store, on any day of the week, any time of the year and find that many people waiting outside for the doors to open, every morning, from people wanting to pick something up before work, too. Pretty much a mirror of what happened when the 360 and original xbox launched too, the biggest and most active launch event for xbox one was in downtown tokyo where attendees were given free food/drink/shirts/etc for standing around for the midnight launch, and, as evidenced from the various twitter feeds of people who attended it, a lot of them were there for the free food/drink after leaving nearby nightclubs too. The joys of reality, I guess, and having actually lived here way too long. As for your "huge demand and nintendo can't keep up with that demand" bit, there very well may be huge demand, but lining up outside of a store for a chance to buy one of 37 units is neither helpfull in guaging it, nor is it indicative with nintendo keeping up with demand, if they can only muster 37 units for such a large, city center store, then clearly they are having *MAJOR* internal issues with unit production. |
You do realise we are talking here about long queues 3 months after launch, not about launch or shortly after launch queues!? Evre console have queues at launch or shortly after launch, but rarely some consoles have long queues few months after launch.
Nintendo itself said they undermiasted demand for Switch and they working to increase production, hopefully they will have much more stocks for Splatoon2 launch.
