Is it actually sold out? or is it just a ruse?

Is it actually sold out? or is it just a ruse?

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It's a ruse because some user on Sup Forums told me so

It'll always sell out if you under produce.

It's being severely overhyped, wouldn't be surprised if you could just walk into any random store and buy it day one.

Nintendo chronically understocks things, so I'd be really surprised if you did. And it's a console at launch, they're always trickier to get than walk into any store.

It's literally sold out on every online outlet. Most brick and mortar stores are sold out, too. At this point, unless you live in Bumfuck, WI, people who want one like myself need to wait in line at a Best Buy midnight launch or some other store on the day of and pray that they get there soon enough to grab one of the handful of units reserved for shelves.

The mere presence of a super bowl ad confirmed this thing is gonna pull bigger numbers than a wiiu- expect another surge when Odyssey drops.

after seeing how much nintoddlers paid for that NES classic shit you can bet your ass that most units will go to scalpers

cant wait for the launch day ebay pics where people will pay four digit sums for it

It's not a ruse; it's actually sold out

>inb4 "the switch sold out before launch, it's a massive success confirmed!"

Nintendo - and I say this is an economics guy - has, bar none, the absolute worst, most pigshit problems with stocking to meet demand I have ever seen in any entertainment company, ever. It goes beyond attempting to artificially generate hype and demand and actively delves into retardation territory.

All those slick ad campaigns go right down the trash if people can't act on them and buy the product, which it's looking they won't be able to until late May/early June going by classic Nintendo re-stocking procedure.

Sold out but that's easy to do when you only made 2M units to sell worldwide

It's sold out if you're in the US.

The only chance is doing a midnight launch at a store that didn't take preorders that's out somewhere away from populated towns and cities.

PS4 sold 1 million systems in its first 24 hours in North America. Switch is getting 2 million systems worldwide on it's release day. There's definitely going to be a shortage.

It's weird seeing Switch ads play on Adult Swim and other channels knowing full well that if that you don't have a pre-order or get incredibly lucky, there's no way you can get one next week. Seems also unfair to advertise to casuals that don't know that.

They undershipped retailers ala 2006 Wii style.

nintendo hold their stock pretty well

Are 3 million produced units really undershipping considering the failure of the WiiU? Thinking you'll have PS4 levels of success and massively overproducing doesn't sound smart either.

Thing is, between the Super Bowl Ad, the success of the initial YouTube pitch, and that they're still paying for more tv ads combined with instantly sold-out pre-orders, it's not predicting PS4 levels of success to think that maybe 2 million isn't enough.

It's not being undershipped. I think people are underestimating how many units are tied up in stores that don't do preorders. They were definitely short on those, but actual consoles available is something we're going to have to wait and see.

What were the PS4 launch numbers? I seem to remember something about 1 million preorders, but I might be wildly off.

Japan is banking on the spring break season, tax returns, and golden week. They still have time to manufacture more units.

They under produced because their last console sold like shit.

PS4 sold 1 million systems in 24 hours in North America

Only takes one scalper to go in and relieve them of the entire stock at midnight, so no, I don't think "is the Switch actually going to be easily available on launch day?" is a wait and see kind of question.

Most stores are limiting to one per customer because they hate scalpers doing returns.

>most stores
lol

What stores are those? I'm not lining up at midnight, but I don't mind swinging by before work just to check if they have one.

Good on you, what physical retailer did you buy all those from at once?

Most places I see have a 1 limit per customer unless these human shitstains take their whole family to buy one.

Target, potentially walmart but you'll have to do the midnight thing there, toys r us, FYE was doing preorders but I don't know if they'll have physical stock. You can also go to gamestop 48 hours after and pick up unpaid preorders.

So the only game-store in my country today forced pre-payment to secure all pre-orders and auto-cancelled those who could not pay.

I paid instantly and my pre-order is secure, thank god, but my friend waited a couple of hours too long and he lost his pre-order.

That is how tight it is right now.

This is the reality that Sonyggers are trembling over.

This reality is utterly terrifying for them and they're lashing out more wildly than ever before.

Its amusing to watch. I'm just happy to be in the winners seat for once. Even if they don't realize that's the case.

Don't gloat unless it hits 5 million units BEFORE splatoon 2 comes out.

Mine is listed on ebay too.


I probably wont actually buy one to own until 2018.

scalper secret.

I already sold over 20 preorders

I actually saw a bit of that during the height of the Amiibo shitstorm. There were these fuckers that brought their kids and the kids were big enough to have their own money and counted as one customer each, so they got 4 of each amiibo we had in stock (worked at Target at the time) and I heard them talking about how they were going across the road to wait another hour for the gamestop to open and get another 4 of each.

Gonna swing by my local Target at 7 AM on the 3rd, if there isn't a stupidly long line I might stick around and try to grab one.

I'm going to need to see your completed listings or you're full of shit. I just use a different credit card.

I know it's standard for this board, but how did so many of you get infected with this disease that makes you care how your corporate overlords are doing financially to the point where you need to brag about it and you're "winning" if they do well?
It's worse than that brain parasite that makes you like cats.

How do you sell yours at $600?

I've been listed for almost 2 days and nobody has bought mine yet?

All I get are offers for $300 from shitbags that don't understand that ebay fees are.

Validation that they bet on the right horse, so to speak.

Usually means they're dirt poor or are children trying to spend their birthday money wisely.

>scalper
>calling anyone else a shitbag

KYS

>it's a ruse to believe they sold out their entire shipment of 10 consoles per state

you were supposed to capitalize on the hype early, now the prices are crashing.

It's sold out most places, but it's mostly because Nintendo has adopted the strategy of trying to keep the demand up by shipping limited quantities of their products in "waves", where there's never quite enough demand for supply.

LMAO I get 50k in birthday money I'm still trying to figure out which island to buy.

and whos mom to fug :-DDD

only the US has problem with stocks, you can get one at every online retailer in europe.

I preordered mine the day after the Presentation.

My Gamestop apparently had 30 preorders left, so who knows.

Nintendo made 1.5 million of these turds, and they'll pump USA TODAY (lol) to trumpet the outrageous SELL OUT OF THE NEW NINTENDO

It's legit sold out in the US but that's mainly because Nintendo didn't want to overstock units similar to Wii U just incase it flops.

I hope you get stuck with it fag

They didn't make enough so that they could tell the shareholders "LOOK WE COMPLETELY SOLD OUT THIS IS TOTALLY NOT THE WII U 2"

I can't think of a single console that didn't sell 2 million in the first fucking MONTH, much less a Nintendo one. I really hope this artificial scarcity shit bites them in the ass this time, and it more than likely will seeing as how at least 25% of preorders are from scalpers and the longer people have to hear about the system and how shit it is, the less inclined they'll be to buy one.

>undershipping considering the failure of the WiiU

The WiiU failed due to lack of marketing. Most people didnt know the WiiU was a standalone console and not a Wii accessory for years.

well I canceled my pre-order on target.com so i imagine to some degree it's not accurate

It won't bite them in the ass. There will be a crapload of clearance sales on these things within 3 months when Zelda is the only fucking game on stock and retailers are tired of it taking up space.

So you are saying you wouldn't sell something that you own when you know the market value of it exceeds what its worth?


I think your wife's son would be very disappointed in you.

Low manufacturing ruse

Sell it for $750 in my opinion. That's the max I think somebody would probably pay, and they're likely a saudi nonce anyhow, so they'll cough it up.

Also you literally do not want to be stuck with that thing as it plummets in value after a month or two. Get rid of it opening week.

The Wii U still costs $300 fucking dollars, there will be no clearance sales. Nintendo will simply realize their shitty business practices will alienate everyone but the most delusional of Nintoddlers. They want the Wii audience back, yet think these people will see an advertisement, find out they can't get one, and then wait fucking months just for a chance to preorder one? They'll see it's sold out and go "Oh well, let me get my Wii out of the attic and play Wii Sports instead"

There weren't any clearance sales on the Wii U. Besides, that's not how vidya works. They're not 10 dollar action figures.

You do realize that the Nintendo super bowl ad was one of the worst ranking ones right?

1 million just seems so low. There has to be more than 2 million gamers who want a switch on launch day.

>Buy a Switch
>Zelda is the only launch title worth picking up
>Splatoon 2 doesn't come out months later and it will eventually require Nintendo's online subscription fee to play
>ARMs doesn't seem like a system seller at all
>Mario is Q4 2017

Switch is gonna be in awkward spot this year if Nintendo doesn't start announcing the big titles ASAP.

>1 million just seems so low
>selling a million fucking systems in a country with 330 million people in 1 (one) day seems low
Wew lad.

All they really gotta do is start pumping the ads again around Black Friday/the holiday season and by then, stock issues should be over. Now is just the time to implant the idea that the Switch is a new thing, not a Wii-add on like so many thought about the Wii U.

>scalper secret.

So basically your the manager of a Best Buy.

It's actually supply bottlenecks. We did a rough estimate in another thread and if they're manufactuing 20,000 units a day, that's 140k units being divided between at least 15k brick and mortar stores in the US alone, or 9 units per store per week. Add in that there is a boat that takes weeks to cross the ocean and that we didn't even account for international sales and you have actual shortages and you have like 3 units per store per week and nothing coming in between. It's not a strategy, but a logistics issue as you don't need a second factory that makes more when demand lowers.

thought it was 2 million world wide. Is it not?

>mfw Has Been Heroes, Isaac Afterbirth+, Zelda, Fast RMX, and Bomberman first month

It's 2 million for the entire planet for the month of March. The PS4 sold half of that in one country in 24 hours.

The Wii U didn't drop in price because it was selling at a lost. They couldn't do it ever.

They recently said that the Switch is priced to sell at a profit, and then the price can be safely lowered during a holiday period, probably next year.

They actually placed within the top 15 by most analysts.

this is what I though.
Now doesn't 2 million (worldwide) seem like a small number?

>indies and non-exclusives

Who gives a shit

>gamers
back to fucking reddit you piece of filth

>analysts
analysts also said that the Vita would kill the 3DS when both handhelds were priced the same amount

Nope. Dead On Arrival fag.

The wii u happened.

I do, bro it's gonna be SWEET!

I travel a lot for work during the summer so I'm excited.

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>stock issues
You seem to think there is a genuine issue with creating enough supply to meet demand and that this isn't just Nintendo pulling the same Jewish trick they've pulled a dozen times now to make it seem like their newest piece of shit is so cool and rare because it's always sold out. The Switch is a Wii U add-on, and wasting more money on ads no one will watch would not be a smart thing because the average consumer won't buy one of these things for $300 when they could get a PS4 (this is speculation but based on Black Friday 2016) for $200 or less with at least one pack-in game.
Honestly, no. The switch looks terrible, and while there are probably closer to 5 million Nintendrones on the planet who will instantly eat up anything they shit out, there really doesn't seem to be a huge supply demand from anyone but fanboys who were asleep when the preorders went up.

>playstationlifestyle.net/2017/02/21/analyst-horizon-zero-dawn-sales-could-sell-more-than-four-million-copies-this-year/

>Horizon Zero Dawn sales will top 4 million this year

I don't know why Nintendo even tries.

Then why don't you try to objectively deconstruct the ad and tell me why it was trash instead of tell me that it was one of the worst ranking superb owl ads?


I understand if you don't respond with anything intelligible.

Who says you two are talking about the same analysts? Guys analyzing ads are probably different and using different concepts and methods than guys analyzing the game industry.

Depends on what it is.

My FiveSeven handgun went up in value to about 2K(I paid 1400 for it) in 2012-13 when everyone was scared Obama was gonna ban guns.

Did I sell it even when I knew I could sell it for 2K?

No... Why because I liked it and didnt want to.

This user gets it.

I don't see Nintendo making it if it doesn't get the next Red Dead & Mass Effect, massive western hit-games.

I'm sorry Arms didn't appeal to you.
I'm super stoked for it though
Shame it didn't make it to evo 2017

Wasn't two of the launch titles for the Wii U Injustice and Mass Effect 3? They also had other third party titles too before becoming largely a Nintendo only console.

It doesn't matter why there's no stock in stores, if there's no stock, you can call it a stock issue. Why the fuck wouldn't they knock it off by the time the holiday season rolls around? Even Nintendo cannot be that retarded.
There's a difference between understocking Amiibos that were never expected to be a big thing or the NES mini that was just a novelty and understocking one of your main two products.

It'll be in bargain bins at grocery stores.

Gimped Nintendo versions don't count, kid. When they're practically different games because the hardware is so fucking shitty you can't claim it's a multiplat title. Dead Rising was a multiplat too, I'm sure you remember how it was the exact same game on 360 and Wii.

>4 million in a year
Pokemon sold 15 million in 4 months, faggots. Try harder.

Wii U's third party support was mostly shitty 360/PS3 ports that ran worse. They were also stupidly overpriced. Like Mass Effect 3 on Wii U was $60 when it was already half the price on other consoles.

I hope so. Nintendo charges too much for their games. I can't get them for my friends if they stay at their original price

Nobody gives a fuck about the 3DS, except nippon, and the real sales of games happens everywhere except Japan.

>give Wii U ME3
>but then release ME Trilogy on other consoles a week later
>at a cheaper price
>"Guess Nintendo fans don't want our games then."

Rockstar is about to release LA Noire on Switch to judge whether or not the Switch keeps getting their games.

Considering that this was the top rated ad by far this year, I don't think you can place much stock in ad ratings.

youtube.com/watch?v=1dQ9a5EFZeI


Also, I'd take a bet on there not being a strong correlation (if one at all) between Super Bowl ad ratings and product success.

Not really. The first week is always bigger than the third or fourth, and PS4 released for the holiday season. I'd wonder what Nintendo was smoking if they tried to replicate that in March.

Jesus I remember that. Fucking game would be delayed by like 4+ months and still expect people to buy the game full price when it was already ~$40 on other platforms.

i was able to do that for the wii u

Shit nigger did you know there's life outside of murica?

Too bad he wasn't talking about consoles sales then.

Sony charged too much for Vita memory cards, Nintendo charges too much for games and accessories. It will be their downfall.

>if nintendo doesn't start bringing these third parties over they are doomed
>'didn't they try this befo-'
>THEY DON'T COUNT BECAUSE THEY WERE SHIT

Third party multiplats don't sell on Nintendo consoles. Stop saying that they are necessary, especially when the only people who will buy the switch either already have a PC/X1/PS4 or are a child and wouldn't buy those games

What Nintendo does need is support from devs that will develop games specifically for their hardware. But since there's no money in Nintendo consoles no one will take that step without incentives.