Global Hardware 11 April 2020 - Final Fantasy VII Remake, Switch Shortages

[DonFerrari]

Mandalore76 said:

DonFerrari said:

Azzanation is pretty adamant of it.

Well, there were 3 cases of it selling over 100m, and 3 cases of it not.  So, it's a silly argument.  

Yep it sold tremendously well, that is why I found the drop quite abrupt, like the inventory exhausted at once.

What's on the shelves will only last so long.  2 million units in the supply chain is usually a good amount at any given time.  The combination of the huge Animal Crossing release & people in lockdown having a ton of time on their hands, led to that stock blowing out in a 3 week span.  Combine that with difficulty resupplying due to the pandemic's effect on manufacturing in Asia and huge sales numbers had to crash once that stockpile had been exhausted.  I think there were warnings from analysts during the peak number sales weeks that the available stock was dwindling, so it wasn't that unexpected.

Yes I have seem the reports and threads discussing the resupplying issues, I've seem Japan having stock deficts and all. So I expected to see a continuous decline (due to some areas being without stock before others) but from VGC numbers it seems like it more or less occured at once.