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abronn627 on 14 September 2020
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Slownenberg said:
abronn627 said:

I wouldn’t put too much faith on this article. It’s coming from one retailer, probably not big enough to secure enough shipment, while also not limiting its preorders not knowing how many copies they can get.

Seems more like they tried to bluff and force Nintendo to allow them a bigger shipment by showing huge numbers of preorder. It just backfired.

No it's more widespread than that. Seems Nintendo just woefully undershipped for the launch. Hopefully that isn't the case for the entire 6 month run. Apparently Both target and Amazon in the US are completely out of initial shipments based on preorders already. Nintendo has once again screwed up availability of a major product launch.

There’s a difference between being out of stock because of high demand or because of lack of offer. 
The article you linked also said that it’s seem a problem specific to this retailer and copies were still available to preorder on other online store like Amazon, at the time.

Don’t forget that the game will be available in a 2 week period following the announcement, it can affect the size of the initial shipment negatively, that doesn’t mean there won’t be an additional shipment in the days that follow, and in case like this, I won’t be surprised if Nintendo deliberately allocated their shipments to the bigger chain like Gamestop, Wal-Mart or Amazon, just to name those.

Having worked for EB and Best Buy, I know they operate and on a 2 week window, the initial shipment was already on route to their distribution center or already there, thus easier for those retailer to allocate limits per store on the number of preorders available. And from what I saw, they looked pretty much confident. So I’ll take this as a grain of salt.