zorg1000 said:
None of this is making any sense, when did i say Nintendo would magically of whipped up more consoles if launched in Nov?
When the fuck did anybody say a console manufacturer has shipped 3/4M launch week and what does that have to do with anything?
Youre trying to get me to defend things i have never said.
Everybody knows people are WAAAAYYYYYY more willing to spend hundreds of dollars on gaming in Dec compared to April hence why a console manufacturer will plan accordingly and have more units available with a holiday launch compared to a spring launch.
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ok.... here goes.
zorg1000 said:
A console manufacturer will plan things differently when it comes to the holiday shopping season vs the slower spring months.
Somehow, in this thread.....these concepts that i would have thought were obvious are suddenly so complicated.
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the bolded part..... unless I am grossly mistaken, in line with this discussion, that statement can only mean that if they were releasing in the holidays they would make more consoles than for a spring launch (plan differently). thats the only difference that applies here. and is in line with what Miyamotoo was suggesting as well. He outright spelt it out. here....
Miyamotoo said:
I gave you good and logical possibilities why that maybe would make sense, and why thats not throwing away money, you ignoried all that and you were acting like evrething was set in stone, lol. Again, you dont know that, if plan from start would be holiday season launch and around 4m prepared consoles from launch. Again, Nintendo never didnt said they couldn't produce more than 2m for Switch launch, just that initial plan was to prepare 2m for launch and that they later had problem to increase that number, but if initial plan was to have bigger number stock for launch they could probably prepare more. Stock problem after launch is different thing, because maybe they had plan to produce around 500k per month and they needed much more than that beacuse console was selling better than 500k and and factories couldn't start producing much more than that so soon.
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thats one of the times he said it. Thats also how the whole 4M thingy came about. And you saying "plan differently" just ties with what he was saying.
And what the shipeed 3-4M has to do with this? Everything.
You see, in its launch window, first week on the market to be exact, the nintendo switch sold 1.5M consoles of its reported 2M shipment. Lets chalk that up to delivery issues. The rest were sold a day or so after its first week on the market. See nintendo made only 2M consoles for that launch shipment. Which is in line with what most manufacurers are able to pull off these days for their launch shipment. Back in the day it was even less and usually staggered.
For anyone to suggest that if they released in the holiday they would have sold more? that can only happen if they shipped more consoles than what they shipped. So lets say 3M/4M consoles.... and that has never happened.
How can we have a discussion of sales being better if released in the holiday and totally ignore that for that to happen they would have to do something no one else has done in 3 decades and also ignore that what they released was actually in line with what the competition managed too and ignore that they sold out of all their available stock.