Japan sales (Week 47): Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - November 20-26, 2017

[Lawlight]

irstupid said:

Lawlight said:

If 175k people win the lottery every week in a population of 35M (what the DS sold), then, yeah no more poor people.

That kind of goes against your "shortage" argument.

Your statement here makes it sound like 35 million people want the Switch (DS owners), thus only 175k available each week means that people will be scrambling for a long time to get one.

I didn’t say 35M wanted it though. I’m showing how his analogy was silly. The odds of winning the lottery is 1 over millions (you gotta use hyperbole when you have nothing to say, right?) The odds of getting a Switch are much much higher even if we assume that 35M people wanted the Switch right now. Odds are a couple of hundreds of thousands of people wanted to buy a Switch this week.