Hey, I was just commenting on your "consumers have power" delusion. If you've got a problem with that, you're free to continue believing as such in a world where Comcast and Walmart and the RIAA exist.
If you think that's a delusion you have severe difficulties understanding very basic economic principles. If anything, consumers today are more powerful than ever with our nearly unlimited access to information, as well as laws to a great part sustaining the absence of monopoly.
If you do a little research, you would know that the law sustains competition to an unbelievable degree. Methods like underpricing the competetion to a degree where all sides would make a loss but only the strongest company would end up surviving, like predatory pricing, are illegal. Companies, especially in threatenned markets, are being subsidized. And even in situations where monopoly is impossible to avoid, clear abuse of monopoly in vital markets is prosecutable, like in the most recent case of Shkreli. And this changes for the better. Decade after decade. At no time did we have more power than now.
And yet they have access to it, unlike back in the day where they did not and companies were able to put out lies that the normal consumer had no chance of disproving with the lack of access to public information or the restriction of media. Having the information available is power. Not making use of it isn't lack of power, but stupidty. Don't talk about economics when you don't possess even basic knowledge in that area. And for the record, trying to make this personal doesn't help your credibility. It's only showing to me that you neither possess knowledge to judge anything related to this topic, nor the required integrity to admit it.
I don't think we're having the same conversation here.
It is true that preorders did sell out for Switch consoles in less than 3 days of being available for preorder from both GameStop and Amazon. It is also true that the Switch Pro controllers are currently sold out on Amazon. Even in Japan, people were waiting outside, waiting for stores to open up to pre-order the Switch. However, there are only 2 million Switch consoles available for launch worldwide. In the grand scheme of things, this is not a whole lot. There are definitely people who want the console, but we don't even know if that number is impressive or not, due to how little stock there are for these consoles.
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2 million!?! That is certainly not enough for the rest of us. I can agree, hopefully they make more by the time the holidays hit.
Oh, more will be made in due time, 2 million is just for the launch though, and the hardware will be available as well in the upcoming months once release hits, but you are gonna have to be rather aggressive if you want one. I am just hoping that enough gets produced for the holidays, as that will really help Nintendo out with moving hardware, which is important, since it will help out 3rd party support as well.
They didn't mean to satisfy the need, they purposely delivered a far too low quantity. That's part of the strategy. A strategy that kills two bird with one stone and is pretty genius. From past experiences they know that they can easily be sold out with only 2m copies out there, whether their console will be a success or a failure. Same with the Wii U for example. Sales are the only way to determine success, so that way, whether the Switch is destined to fail as it is now or whether it is not, it's absolutely impossible to determine by the customers. So the chance of people being shaken off by a potential bad start upon launch is eliminated. Not just that, but limited quantity is also a very common strategy to increase desire. Tell a man he can't get something and that is all he's going to want.
