| TruckOSaurus said: Well do you? i've seen it said time and time again in various sales threads but I somehow can't bring myself to believe some people actually believe it. I mean, I could understand saying it to rile up Nintendo fans, it's surprisingly effective and fun but not actually believing it. To be clear, I'm not talking about Nintendo setting aside units for big release weeks, I'm talking about people who really think Nintendo has loads of Switch consoles hiding somewhere and they're not shipping them to retailers who are begging for supply just because they want game sites to publish articles about stock issues. To me that is pretty crazy but who knows maybe some users here can make sense of it? |
Do you ACTUALLY believe in the holocaust?
Well do you?
To be clear, I'm not talking about the Nazis being responsible for the death of millions of jews, I'm talking about people who really think Adolf Hitler was a time traveller from planet Melmac who personally killed all the jews while wearing a pink and yellow striped mini-skirt and a giant penis-shaped tampon on his head, just because he wanted international newspapers to publish articles about him.
So there you have it: the holocaust (that is, as per my extremely limited definition) didn't happen, only an insane person would believe something that crazy.
Seriously: you're basically trying to prove that there is no "artificial Switch shortage" by limiting "artificial Switch shortage" to a very narrow and indeed rather unrealistic definition.
"Setting aside units for big release weeks" would obviously already be a case of storing "Switch console somewhere and not shipping them to retailers who a begging for supply". Furthermore, the idea that a manufacturer would drive production at the maximum and store all the excess units in warehouses doesn't make much sense to me; a manufacturer who indeed wanted to use an artificial scarcity strategy would probably rather not drive production at the possible maximum instead.
And to those suggesting that artificial shortages wouldn't possibly make any sense, because of "birds in the hand" etc.: "Artifical scarcity" exists, intentionally keeping supply below demand is a well-known strategy in marketing etc. If you don't see any possible reasons why a sane manufacturer would possibly do something like that, chances are you just don't know that much about economics.
I'm not saying that Nintendo is indeed (still) intentionally keeping supply below demand (I neither know nor really care), but it's not that hard to think of possible reasons why Nintendo might consider doing so for a limited period of time.
