Very amateur of the shops.Considering for how long streamers have the console and for how long the stores received the inventory they could certainly plan to start shipping a little earlier to avoid this. If there was no pandemic and inventory was higher then you would have people picking on store day one receiving much earlier than people that reserved it months in advance.
duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363
Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994
Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."
