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Topic	Do MS/Sony/Nintendo deliberately manufacture fewer consoles at launch?
LinkPizza 12/20/20 1:22:42 AM #32:	FatalAccident posted... I just think its not hard to forward plan for something considering theres a shortage every single year. Because the question I would be asking all three is what lessons theyve learned from previous shortages. Surely you can anticipate future sales based on previous sales. if you made say 1m units and sold out last Christmas, why would you only make 975k units this year for example? The thing is, there will probably already be a shortage every year. When every buys it. Plus, they don't know how mant they will sale. I was looking at the number of systems sold. It's all over the place. I don't know how fast this took place, though. GameCube sold 22 million units. The next system to come after that was Wii, which sold 101.63 million. Which is a much larger number. The next system was Wii U, which sold 13.56 million. And that's even less than the GameCube. And the switch, so far, has sold 68.3 million. There's not way to guess how many they need to have. So, you can't really based it on how many of your last consoles sold. There was no way to gauge that the Wii would sell nearly 5x as many consoles as the last system. And the next system would only sell a little more than half of the GameCube. And after those three, it would be impossible to guess how many Switch units to make unless you were psychic... And that's just talking about anticipating how many they need. There's also the fact that even where they run out, they still need time to make them, ship them out, and everything is between. And they aren't all powerful magic beings. They can't just snapped and make 1 million more Switches appear. And they still have others things they are working on. And as others have said, the sell consoles at a loss. Which means they need to have the money to make them... Which probably explains why they can only make a certain amount at a time. FatalAccident posted... Im confused because I havent seen any legit reason why we run out of consoles at Christmas time. Seems like such a dumb issue. Christmas, on the other hand, has all kinds of store running out of products. Because everyone is buying all kinds of things. I'd say it would be hard for a console to not sell out around Christmas time. FatalAccident posted... Is there a genuine reason? And dont tell me shortage of parts lol A parts shortage is a reasonable explanation. But either way, it doesn't sound like you want a reasonable explanation. People have been posting them, but you've been brushing them off. If you're so smart, then go tell the gaming companies your plans on how they should run their companies... --- Official King of Kings Switch FC: 7216-4417-4511 Add Me because I'll probably add you. I'm probably the LinkPizza you'll see around. <cite>LinkPizza posted [p:948551689] in Do MS/Sony... [t:79185893]...</cite> <quote>FatalAccident posted...</cite> <quote>I just think its not hard to forward plan for something considering theres a shortage every single year. Because the question I would be asking all three is what lessons theyve learned from previous shortages. Surely you can anticipate future sales based on previous sales. if you made say 1m units and sold out last Christmas, why would you only make 975k units this year for example?</quote> The thing is, there will probably already be a shortage every year. When every buys it. Plus, they don't know how mant they will sale. I was looking at the number of systems sold. It's all over the place. I don't know how fast this took place, though. GameCube sold 22 million units. The next system to come after that was Wii, which sold 101.63 million. Which is a much larger number. The next system was Wii U, which sold 13.56 million. And that's even less than the GameCube. And the switch, so far, has sold 68.3 million. There's not way to guess how many they need to have. So, you can't really based it on how many of your last consoles sold. There was no way to gauge that the Wii would sell nearly 5x as many consoles as the last system. And the next system would only sell a little more than half of the GameCube. And after those three, it would be impossible to guess how many Switch units to make unless you were psychic... And that's just talking about anticipating how many they need. There's also the fact that even where they run out, they still need time to make them, ship them out, and everything is between. And they aren't all powerful magic beings. They can't just snapped and make 1 million more Switches appear. And they still have others things they are working on. And as others have said, the sell consoles at a loss. Which means they need to have the money to make them... Which probably explains why they can only make a certain amount at a time. FatalAccident posted...</cite> <quote>Im confused because I havent seen any legit reason why we run out of consoles at Christmas time. Seems like such a dumb issue.</quote> Christmas, on the other hand, has all kinds of store running out of products. Because everyone is buying all kinds of things. I'd say it would be hard for a console to not sell out around Christmas time. FatalAccident posted...</cite> <quote>Is there a genuine reason? And dont tell me shortage of parts lol</quote> A parts shortage is a reasonable explanation. But either way, it doesn't sound like you want a reasonable explanation. People have been posting them, but you've been brushing them off. If you're so smart, then go tell the gaming companies your plans on how they should run their companies... --- Official King of Kings Switch FC: 7216-4417-4511 Add Me because I'll probably add you. I'm probably the LinkPizza you'll see around.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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