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Insidb on 15 June 2017
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RolStoppable said:
Insidb said:

It's regularly in stock in Italy, the 5th largest European nation, and slightly less often in the UK, the 4th largest, so all of these markets aren't small.

While there certainly won't be enough to meet demand, it makes you wonder why they bothered spending additional on air freight, if units are regularly sitting on shelves now. That being said, they're still selling out, and some of this is definitely hindsight (The Italy availability has been going on for over a month, though).

Ninendo doesn't really have any "problems" right now, at least not any bad ones.

Air freight was exclusive to the USA and launch month. Done to secure the good PR of strongest Nintendo launch in history.

Generally speaking, I think it's mostly an issue of hindsight being 20/20. Was it necessary? No. Could they spend money to ship units to heavier demand markets? Yes. Should they? Probably not, because that demand is almost universally outstripping demand.