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nemo37 on 15 February 2018
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quickrick said:
nemo37 said:

I would like to know who your sources are. Pretty much every thing I have seen both anecdotal and quantitative show that the stock situation has not changed since the end 2017. Big electronics retailers like Yodobashi Camera (largest electronics retailer in Japan) and Bic Camera get smaller weekly shipments that sell out between 2-3 days, and Amazon gets fewer but larger shipments that last a bit longer. This has been the pattern since about October of 2017. In addition, Yodobashi and Amazon, which have rankings, have Switch hardware jump to being the #1 hardware SKU whenever there is a stock replenishment, indicating that the demand, at least for now, is there. Finally, there are going to be days when certain stores get stock, that is the entire point of shipments, but that does not have any barring on how long the stock lasts.

https://www.resetera.com/posts/4528877/

I honestly believe shortages are artificial in japan at this point, nintedo forcast is 950k a month shipped, yet switch is still sold out in some store, which doesn't make any sense.

Sorry I am replying twice to your comment but I did not see the expert below the link. But the 950K per month number is worldwide target shipments. So far Nintendo has shipped 25% of Switch supply to Japan. Thus, assuming that they continue to allocate 25% of shipments to Japan, then Nintendo needs to ship 237K units per month (711K until the end of March) in Japan. Based on this they are already ahead of their target for January. Media Create data has them selling 273K units as of January 28, which leaves about 438K left to sell in 2 months. That is about 54K a week, which means that there is a deficit with regards to the units shipped thus far but not by much (so far it is around 15K).

I am also unsure as to why they would create artificial shortages. That is a theory that I have seen past around several gaming oriented sites and it always seems to apply to Nintendo. Oddly enough when PS4 was sold out in most places in its initial 6-8 months (depending on the region) not many people on gaming forums attributed that to Sony trying to create artificial shortages. I don't see why any company would want to do that considering you have to pay to store unsold inventory, you could lose customers attention, and for a platform you would be limiting the installbase and stifling software during a critical growth period.