If they were trying so hard to get one up till now (half a year after the release), I'm sure they will come back when the stock issues are fixed.

never understood people lilke you- you come onto a "Switch is sold out" frustration thread (essentially) to mention that you have a Switch, don't like it, and are going to get rid of it.

Well congratulations pal- do you want an award?

talk about a waste of a post. And just because your local stores have Switches in stock is sort of irrelevant and doesn't speak for Europe as a whole (where some territories are somewhat low on inventory, especially around big cities). We don't know where you live, what country, what city, whatever, and the concept that whatever small area you're in summarizes a continent of 800 million is just silly.

There are territories in Europe that are selling a lot of Switches (especially like France and Germany, some of the largest European countries), and the concept that Nintendo can just pick and choose to abandon spots in Europe is silly. They either support the stores in the continent as a whole or basically don't do it at all. That should be obvious.

Congratz on having a Switch and not liking it, but the only pertinent reason for you to mention that on this topic would be if you plan to send your system to Japan to help inventory over there pal

talk about dramatic. They've already sold 1.5 million Switches in Japan and this is under the circumstances of them being limited by the amount of parts available to produce high quality portable devices. Partially they're limited, and partially they didn't anticipate demand would be this high.

and Sony take advantage of it? how? make a copy-cat device that will fail to conquer the Japanese market from Nintendo? rush to spend a lot in development of a similar concept that'll take a year or two to come out, at which point Nintendo will have already solved the production problems long ago and will have a system with a large library?

Even if Sony had some sort of handheld hybrid plan up their sleeves I don't think they honestly have any possibility of combating the likes of Nintendo releasing Pokemon and Animal Crossing on the Switch. 

There's a reason Nintendo owns the video game handheld market, regardless of production difficulties (which, again, are partially out of their control)

and also it's strange for people to whine THAT much if we're talking about a situation where someone could spend 25% more than retail price (like $400) and just get a Switch from a third party online at any point in time.

Not defending scalping or raised prices, but it's not as if the secondary market has Switches at some insane rate. If someone really did want to get one they can

what the hell is your problem dude? the topic is about people losing interest due to shortages and I commented that Nintendo did a poor job with allocating the hardware.

if you disagree with my opinion that's perfectly fine, but if you're trying to be an ass just because you don't like what I said, then you can f* right off

ps: i'm not your "pal"

The Switch is doing to do just fine in Japan, I wouldn't worry about that..

What the fuck is wrong with you? Why shouldn't they lose interest? Happens to every kind of product, not just the Switch. No stock = less interest for some people. 

Sony would do what any rival company does when their competition is in short supply, advertise, advertise, advertise. Contrary to what you may believe, the Switch isn't such a revolutionary concept that Sony nor MS need to jump on board and "copy-cat" the device. It is to advertise though.

Quite the fucking logic leap you took there though, somehow you got "Make a copy cat device" and then tried to go into detail as to why it would fail rather than just rationalize that there are many myriads of ways that Sony could take advantage of low stock... but yes, that is totally what I was thinking when I said Sony should take advantage of this situation. Yep. Definitely. XD

Jesus Christ though, no reason to get this worked up over a stupid toy. 

Does Nintendo have sales for limited periods of time? Does it have limited edition/run products? Yes and yes? That's scarcity marketing. 

Amiibo is also scarcity marketing in a variety of different ways. They do took digital DLC that has unlimited supply and turned it into a bunch of different collectable figurines that have a very limited supply. Because it now has a limited supply and collectable, there's more demand for it then there would have been if it was just digital dlc. By your dense logic, they shouldn't have created amiibos or that they shouldn't have sold so well because "again, make it scarce, so they can sell less of them, because that is great business, amirite?".

I'll try to explain this concept in a different way because you're confused on how it works. I'm gonna use the following parts as an example, I'm not quoting actual hard numbers. It's an example. Can we both agree that nintendo's goal is to sell all of their stock and make people want more? Okay good.

Let's say that nintendo can produce 5 million switches per month and that's their max production ability. I'm saying that they're taking 2 million switches from each month to store in a warehouse to create a "shortage" while the 3 million from each month sell out. They do this all year til black friday and the holidays. Because there's a shortage, there's more desire from consumers to obtain the product. This is when they unleash all of their stored switches into the market and they sell out. They don't lose any sales. They sold everything and there's alot more hype for the product because it's harder to get. Plus, the sold out headlines make investors happy. 

That´s curious... because the Switch still continue to sell a lot more than any other console, according to Media Create / Dengeki and other charts.

A few Twitter lines don´t mean much, if they mean anything at all. Some people may be dissapointed with the long wait to get one, and it wouldn´t be hard to find these people on social media.......but this doesn´t mean that demand or the interest actually decreased. Specially now that Splatoon 2 is out and Mario Odyssey is on the way.

Bad tactic there. The userbase is a king now, the faster u build it the better. There is a reason why PS3 struggled to catch up with 360, even if it outsold it since day1.