RolStoppable said:
This is very wrong. Because if what you said were true, then console manufacturers must be run by complete morons because they always want that holiday launch. In reality they've done plenty of sales analyses and it's a proven fact that a holiday launch comes with the safety blanket of December sales due to it being gift-giving season. No December to fall back on results in a much steeper dropoff in demand in the post-launch month. |
we can look at wii, 360, and even ps2, when they had little to no stock during there launch holidays. they want to launch early probably to please third party's, and of course it is a safety blanket if the console has no demand, but for a successful console, it's basically doesn't help at all.
