| DMeisterJ said: So, Ninty obviously wasn't stockpiling for MGS4 release week... What's the next excuse?  |
You know, if you don't want Nintendo fans to come in here and start throwing around the fact that the PS3's "domination" will probably only last two or three weeks, you really shouldn't bait them like that.
I really wish we would just let this whole stockpile thing slide. Sometimes Nintendo stockpiles and happens to release loads of units (see Mario Kart week), othertimes they stockpile units and don't release the units (see the last few weeks in America). Pretending that they don't stockpile is blind fanboyish, since they obviously got those 400k units from somewhere for the week of Mario Kart, and last Christmas wouldn't have had the units if they didn't stockpile. And all companies stockpile (yes, even Sony and Microsoft are stockpiling a few units for holiday, though they probably won't do massive stockpiling unit a little later), because it's not possible to have production at 4 million a month for December, then go back to 1.5 million a month or so. Instead you produce 1.8 million a month, sell 1.5 million of it, and by the end of the year, you have an additional 3 million units.
Also, some people predicted that Nintendo was going to release those units this week. Obviously they didn't, so those people were wrong (I was one of them, I predicted 250k in America this week in the prediction league). Now if you've never been wrong on a prediction before, then congratuations, but that doesn't give you the right to mock those users.
Now obviously you weren't really mocking them (you're better than that), and I know it was more of a joke, but unfortunately the crazy fanboys won't care, and will go all crazy and start throwing the same old stuff out, at which time you'll get upset that they don't give credit where credit is due, and then we'll just have another NA Sales Week thread.
