Aeolus451 said:
Every article of any kind is an opinion piece in reality, sherlock holmes. You're ignoring valid points just because you don't like idea that nintendo is using a well known marketing strategy to help sell their products. You'd rather go with the idea that nintendo is so incompetent that they can't produce enough product to keep up with demand even years after something has been out. There's many cases of shortages with nintendo's products. The people running nintendo for all these years must be diaper-wearing idiots if you're right. Somehow, I'm the one out to hate on nintendo by trying explain that their repeated shortages of their products are a sign of nintendo being smart by using scarcity marketing to market their products so their sales ultimately increase. Their production capacity is irrelevent in this context because we don't what it could upped to or lowered to based on Nintendo's tactics in marketing it. It just needs to be lower than demand for scarcity marketing to work. |
No, the belief is that Nintendo WAS competent enough to not bank on producing 16 million units of the Switch the year of it's launch after not being able to sell 16 million Wii U's in it's 4+ year lifetime. That's not a desire to create artificial demand. That's a very cautious approach after a very tepid reaction to it's previous product.