>Here’s a look at Akiharabara Yodobashi this weekend. More than 3,000 people lined up in hopes of securing their own Switch system. The problem? Just 250 units were available.
>One person on Twitter said his number was around 2,600 when he was there at 8:27 AM. He speculates that the general number would be more than 5,000 and it might reach 10,000.
Why is it so much harder to find a Switch in Japan compared to the rest of the world?
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...because Japan has superior taste?
Damn that's crazy. I found one at best buy randomly a couple of months ago. I still see them in stock once in a while when I go shopping.
why even bother lining up at that point if you know you're not gonna get one
There's literally nothing wrong with this webm
So you are implying DSP is smart enough to understand there are no contacts and that he can securely cut it off?
Nice one retard.
What's the point in lining up for everyone after #250?
>live in Osaka
>preordered a switch from 3d party seller on Amazon
>got it 2 days before the official release date
Stylin on all these niggas.
They hold a raffle so they're lining up for a chance to buy a Switch.
This shit is done on purpose for marketing.
They could have online/mobile registration if they really wanted.
Why do Japanese roads always look so nice
Japan just loves their exclusive limited edition overnight queue shit. Like that time 9000 people lined up to buy a special prepaid train card which only difference from a normal one was a different background image. Nevermind that you could buy it online literally the next week.
Is it the special brand of asphalt or the dimensions they use or how clean it is or how newly-put it often looks
And those narrow streets, it looks great there. If I had 2500 euros I would go to Japan.
all the dust sawed off is now stick to the contact area.
it's fucked.
you are stupid
Japan is just one of the top countries to live in and part of what makes that true is the fact that it looks very clean and is well maintained by both the government and the population.
Japan is the land of soulless robots and it's only nice if you compare it to America. It has no variety in culture, in views, in art or architecture.
t. European
Except for shitty climate, crazy prices, mindbreaking corporate "work ethics", unofficial social caste system and a general dislike for all foreigners. Other than that it's a great country to live in.
Hi Mohamed.
hi Kekistani citizen. How does it feel knowing you will never cross the pond?
Crazy prices? Are you fucking mad.
Everything in Japan is much cheaper compared to U.K. Or US.
A Switch with tax is 32,000 yen by itself.
That's £215 currently.
A standalone switch in U.K. At UK price is £280.
Fuck off.
Also OP Nintendo better get more units out before Splatoon 2 otherwise there will just be queues for days.
Doesn't look like Akiba. Japanese just like waiting for shit. If given the option they would wait
I'm not too good at dodging trucks. Hopefully I won't have a problem when I land over there in a week for vacation. Any tips? You've seen to have made it this far. Then again you aren't a 11 year old girl so I assume you're better at dodging peaceful vehicles.
Winning the Switch lottery.
Looks like a high school acceptance results board.
Splatoon 2 is out Friday.
Japanese are desperate for one. Even my Japanese LINE friends said they're calling like 50 different stores a day to find one.
>he uses a fucking Switch of all things to compare the prices
How about food, rent or utilities?
The first reply is right, but also Japanese construction gets huge budgets and tax breaks from the government so they go full ancap on road making
He's right about every except price, and in a general sense, cost of living is really high in Japan.
>Any tips?
You do realize that Europe is not one city? You have to specify where you're going
the green/yellow part of a PCB is designed not to conduct electricity
Yeah, in Japan now but too cheap to sign up for the Nintendo online service. Was actually at Akiba today and didn't see any line around Akiba (there are like 10 entrances tho)
Me and my Japanese fiancé was looking at the total cost of a flat in Osaka. Roughly 80,000. Which is roughly the same as a flat in my UK city.
Cost of living in the UK is high. Not saying much when both nations have an extremely high cost of living.
Both construction and train companies in Japan get good subsidies and encourage healthy competition.
>Person #1 waiting in line all night wins nothing
>Some shitter #3120 got there before work and wins
See
It definitely happened.
Doesn't that frontal left one give electricity? What's the point of doing all this if the motherboard just doesn't support the card?
>lining up for a raffle
Might have been in the morning. I got one launch day. Have not seen a single one in the stores not on pre-order. Still haven't used it.
Cost of living everywhere civilized is high, it is like the most bullshit statistics to employ. The only way to use is to point and laugh at 3rd world hellholes that has cost of living of 1st world nations.
So wages are appropriately high as well. You are DUMB.
D U M B
How can Europe not be one city if Europe is my city?
question, how can such a cheap piece of shit toy always be out of stock?
Because it's a good toy.
Now fuck of back to your horizon tranny porn thread.
It was a challenge of some sort. I haven't seen the video for a while, so I forget what it was.
>cheap piece of shit toy
It's actually too overdesigned. Also mobile phones have bigger priority for the factories.
Why are you lying? That's Osaka.
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It's not. Outside of Japan, everyone that actually knows how to look for one has one. What's left are the kind of people who have no idea how scarce it is and will drive up to a store to see if it's in stock instead of calling ahead and not wait for news.
There's no use to wait in line. You just sign up between a certain time, then go do something else and come back later in the day to see if you won.
The big line started forming later in the day because there were just that many people who wanted to sign up. Person #1 didn't suffer from that yet.
Just seems weird, definitely have seen manufacturing operations on products more advanced then a shitty video game console. Doesn't add up, did Nintendo piss someone off on the logistics side of things?
source since OP is a retard
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it was also in Osaka, see link
literally just for advertising: LOOK HOW POPULAR SWITCH IS, ALL 10 UNITS SOLD OUT
>implying that's akihabara and not fucking OSAKA
>they could line for another things but retard toddler say is for a nintendo switch
>I-It's not out of stock outside of Japan!!!
>Live in Florida
>Love the look of an overcast city
>Out in the suburbs where it's sunny all the time and humid as fuck
At least the sounds of cicadas relaxes me.
there was an article that the new iPhone is taking the resources
>Outside of Japan, everyone that actually knows how to look for one has one
Sure, if you don't mind paying extra for it you can get one easily.
Most retailers are making the thing extra expensive because they know how scarce it is. The retailers that don't do this are sold out ridiculously fast.
There's also the fact that there are two versions (grey and neon), and at least here in The Netherlands getting your hands on a grey one is just beyond difficult.
RAM and nand are in short supply right now. Apple and Samsung both have flagships coming out soon.
I want to live in a house not a shitty flat. If wages are so high, why do I never see people live in legit houses?
houses in cities are always absurdly expensive because you cant fit a dozen families on the property
Have you killed any alligators today?
>living in the suburbs of FL
WHY??
Fuck off
you're going to see a lot of shortages like this in the coming years
you can't campaign for green practices and lowering pollution while allowing rare earth metals to be mined and processed
>went to Tokyo in April
>no Switches to be found
>found one tucked away in a retro game store, brand new
Extra 5k yen but worth it.
but my wages aren't high and I do live in a recently constructed house in a city of millions right beside a tech corridor. With a significant amount acreage I might add. Why can't my friends in the UK do the same? I know you dudes have houses, I've seen the neighborhoods. But everyone buys/rents these fucking flats.
One reason out of many of why I hate environmentalist. Constantly stifling progress, or rather, Locking down the people/groups who have the ability to progress humanity.
It's weird. I thought Switch hardware was old enough not to share any components with the high-end smartphones. It's built on an older tech process for one
>burger thinks all the world operates the same as his clappistan
Credit mentality and moving out the day you hit 18 is mostly and american thing, and townhouse being big too. Most eu cities were not meant to accommodate that, especially in eastern eu when commie block was still a thing.
I don't have credit or mortgage I bought outright, also Late 20's. I get the eastern EU thing, but I've literally seen these nice ass homes in london, these perfect little neighborhoods, but only really old as fuck people seem to live in them. Why?
homogenous population
no niggers
Why are you posting the map of Yakuza 0?
Do you think we have a spare £250,000 in our back pockets or something.
Houses are cheap in US because there made from wood and plastic and has no foundations or insulation.
UK is made of brick and mortar with a solid foundation and insulation.
A UK house could withstand a hurricane where as your US houses would be demolished.
DELETE THIS THE SWITCH IS NOT SELLING WELL OK!
NO ONE WANTS IT!
Selling 250 units doesn't sound OK to me, toddler.
Switch is marketed as handheld in Japan. Nips are obsessed with mobile systems especially with games like Pokemon or Splatoon. Rest of the world care less about Switch.
>Selling out as soon as it arrives in stores
>Not good
Fuck off
Damn, so if I make 2 cheeseburgers and sell them all in one week that means I am more successful than MCDonald
toddler #triggered
Japs are so backwards they don't use internet deliveries.
>He thinks UK houses are well constructet
Also, prefabricated houses are quite good for the price
Found this at the local mall. Machine is broken to lol
Unleash your inner nigger and steal it.
>Japan is getting the special Spla2n bundle
>Going to be impossible to find there let alone imported here
What was the point, I really hope they just restock the colored controllers for america at some point
>Nintendo regularly does shit like this
>Fanboys repeatedly deny that they don't create artificial scarcity of their products