drkohler said:
No, that is not going to happen. That would be immense storage costs, losing revenue on hw and sw all the way. And they did survive last XMas so they will have to survive this Xmas whatever happens until December, as far as ramping up manufacturing is concerned. An additional factor is the transfer to the 6nm refresh which they likely want to do as early a possible. You don't want to have warehouses full of "old" consoles when the better version comes out... |
Storage cost is igsignificant. I cant belive anybody still makes that argument. If any company wanted to stockpile anything it would cost next to nothing.specially since these companies already have their own where houses all over the world.
Now the missed sales is definetly a factor. Every unit they hold on to is a gamer that is not buying games for it and thats where all their money comes from. And selling it late can cost also because the games will be at lower price by then. Or the gamer could loose interest in said game and move on and its a full lost sale.
A company needs to weigh the benefits of said loses with the gains a huge Holliday will bring wich in my opinion is nothing more than pr. As the same amount of units will be sold. But you might loose on games being sold or bought at rwduced price.
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