Amazon U.S. June bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion

[Nautilus]

Bandorr said:

Nautilus said:

The Switch is simply has so much appeal that it seems people are willing to pay the scalpers and their high prices(the lowest Switch prices on the scalper side is around 410-420 dollars)

It really goes to show that Nintendo really need to fix their production issues.

Or that Nintendo greatly benefits from the "production issues". It doesn't matter who buys it, as long as someone buys it.

The buying and reselling of them keeps it in the public eye, while also creating that "but if I don't buy it now I won't get it" feeling.

They can't afford to put thought into whether they want it or not, or if there are enough games or not. It is decide now, or wait 6+ months.

Well yes.I wont deny it.Its a common practice on business.On any business.That has surely benefited Sony and Microsoft in one way or another in a moment(or many moments) in time in their respective company history.

But at the same time, you lose sales if you keep up this "low" production of units.People that were mildly interested in it and arent hardcore enough to keep track of where it appears or is sold out, will be turned off by how hard it is to get this, and in turn it makes Nintendo lose sales, both in hardware and software.

Nintendo is not artificially creating demand here.Given how freaking fast it is selling, how demand is so high, and how it is breaking records, both universal and Nintendo own records, I think we are past the part that there is some conspiracy behind this.