Japanese losing interest in Switch due to shortage.

[Mnementh]

Aeolus451 said:

Mnementh said:

LOL, you're so cute. I'm fully aware that Nintendo is a greedy company like any other company. But let merephrase my initial statement for you to understand: Shortages are BAD for business. Any conclusion about "artificial shortage" to "drive demand" are hilarious, because some people really believe that works? Sure, two or three people might be enticed by a product that is out of stock, but what do you do with this increased demand - because you have no stock, you know. On the same day you lose thousands, alone by casual pickups by people seeing the thing in the store and get it because ... why not. You anger people who did want it. You lose people because over time they move on and lose interest. But sure, "artificial shortage" is for business. Logical thinking isn't your strong suit, is it?

(1) The fact that they turned digital DLC (unlimited supply) into collectable figurines that have a very limited supply is proof enough that they use scarcity marketing to sell their products. The whole point of it is to create a craze or strong demand by making a product seem more scarce to the consumer. The trick to it is controlled scarcity.

(2) Nintendo will likely sell all of the NS stock they're withholding throughout the year during the holidays/black friday. It will get people more hungry for it by teasing them throughout the year. They don't lose any sells because anyone who really wants it will buy it whenever they can and those resellers will buy any stock they can to resell. Some people might get mad at the shortages but they'll still buy it sooner or later if they were looking for one in the first place.

(3) It's a win win for nintendo. You and some of other blind ones are attributing a negative tone like "nintendo is evil" or "nintendo is being greedy" to my posts about this when there's no tone of that sort to my posts. If i'm anything I'm saying that nintendo is being smart by doing this. 

(4) Logical thinking isn't my strong suit, huh? Got any more jabs for me? You guys get so emotional over this shit.

(1) Sure. The idea that combining DLC and collectible figurines might get some interest never occured to them, they all sat together and thought about ways to make DLC scarce. And for the same reason they put the major DLC behind amiibo, while keeping unimportant stuff just as DLC. As new racetracks and cars for Mario Kart are surely unimportant and can be sold digitally, while the highly important Mii-costumes have to be locked behind amiibo.

And again, make it scarce, so they can sell less of them, because that is great business, amirite?

(2) So you think, Switch will be in stock more than demand at the holidays? We'll see.

And losing all the sales throughout the year the customers sure will all come.

(3) Losing a lot of sales at all times (because I assure you it will not be readily in stock at the holidays) surely is a win-win for Nintendo. Because, they wouldn't know what to do with all the money, if they sold more. So it is better to restrict sales.

(4) Look at 1-3 and that the reasoning is made hilarously with business for Nintendo, well ...

 

And Nintendo does bad. They're conservative till it hurts. That's was what let them made overly conservative orders to manufacturers in the first place. They feared sitting on unsold stock. Now they struggle to meet demand. That's stupid of Nintendo. As they produce only video game systems and games, they also can't just rearrange a production line for another product that isn't going so hot (like Sony as general electornics company can). Getting new production lines short term is difficult. That's purely on Nintendo and they losing sales and profit over this stupidity.