Current Events > Why was the switch out of stock, what games are people even playing on it?

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If it's super smash then I'd love to play multiplayer but I haven't bothered with a Nintendo account or giving them money.

fake demand


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Animal crossing and pokemon

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I don't like playing the latest and "greatest" games since they flop or need updates or get delayed, so I appreciate that Nintendo has an older/ported library

There are also a bunch of great indie games

Between Hollow Knight of Breath of the Wild I've got 200 hours right there

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Smash bros, Pokemon, and Animal Crossing have a large fan base.

Artificial shortages are also a thing.

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Mario Kart is the highest selling game on the console.

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how come the PS4 and Xbone aren't constantly selling out and being scalped?
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Beveren_Rabbit posted...

how come the PS4 and Xbone aren't constantly selling out and being scalped?

Cause they are inferior to PCs whereas the Switch has carved out a solid niche

Slayerblade11 posted...

whereas the Switch has carved out a solid niche

And I hazard that "niche" is its portability. There's a reason the Switch Lite exists. We don't see it much among ourselves on GameFAQs, but there is apparently a large group of consumers out there who are perfectly fine with owning a Switch on an entirely portable basis.

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Beveren_Rabbit posted...

how come the PS4 and Xbone aren't constantly selling out and being scalped?

Nintendo sends out less of their products to stores. I remember when I was trying to get a Wii back when that was hot, and the stores were telling me Nintendo sends them like 2 units at a time. Their supply chain guys probably figured it was more profitable for there to be a shortage than for there to be a surplus.

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how can you profit from having less product?
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maybr it was slow supply/shipping try asking the store why they were out?

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Beveren_Rabbit posted...

how can you profit from having less product?

Overproducing is costly. You have to up to set up more infrastructure in your manufacturing centers and hire more workers. In addition, you need more warehouse space for both components and finished products, and it's often not just one warehouse. There's usually tons of distribution centers, and if you want low response time at all stores, you're going to have higher inventory costs at each of these stores. Companies also don't want their money to be tied up in inventory sitting in the warehouse because it's not doing as much for them there as in RD and other avenues.

That's not to say that it's always worse to overproduce. It's just something companies need to balance around.

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the nintendo model is that by creating an artificial shortage they make their products more valuable. PS4s were hard to find at launch too mostly because people actually wanted it.

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Same thing happens with all Nintendo consoles.

The 3DS was at a ridiculous price online for the longest time.

I've been playing Xenoblade

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Everyone should have a switch

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Akagami_Shanks posted...

the nintendo model is that by creating an artificial shortage they make their products more valuable. PS4s were hard to find at launch too mostly because people actually wanted it.

Is this proven? Not saying it isnt... it just screams urban myth.

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VerisimiIitude posted...

Is this proven? Not saying it isnt... it just screams urban myth.

Not at all. The Switch has sold 60 million systems in 3 years. The Xbox One sold 48 million in 7 years, and the PS4 sold 112 million in 7 years.

Switch is easily wrecking the sales charts.

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"Was" out of stock? It still is. Also at least in my area Playstations and Xboxes also sell out pretty fast too.

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VerisimiIitude posted...

Is this proven? Not saying it isnt... it just screams urban myth.

its a well known scam of nintendos

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Ring Fit Adventure.
I also finished XBC2, and got XBC in the backlog.

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Squall28 posted...

Overproducing is costly. You have to up to set up more infrastructure in your manufacturing centers and hire more workers. In addition, you need more warehouse space for both components and finished products, and it's often not just one warehouse. There's usually tons of distribution centers, and if you want low response time at all stores, you're going to have higher inventory costs at each of these stores. Companies also don't want their money to be tied up in inventory sitting in the warehouse because it's not doing as much for them there as in RD and other avenues.

That's not to say that it's always worse to overproduce. It's just something companies need to balance around.

That makes a lot of sense

I highly value the ability to swap between handheld and TV. It's huge.

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No games Paper Mario is a letdown too much perv shit NINTENDOOMED

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A bunch of people bought a Switch to play Animal Crossing. Almost every girl I know bought a Switch just to play Animal Crossing. Many of these girls used to mock people for playing video games, too. The hype was real.

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Beveren_Rabbit posted...

how come the PS4 and Xbone aren't constantly selling out and being scalped?

With expensive new versions coming from the other consoles soon, buying one of those now is foolish unless they're being sold at a deep discount.

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Animal Crossing, Smash, MK8 and Pokemon. The online subscription comes with NES and SNES games as well it's like $25 for a whole year to play online and play the old games.

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Animal Crossing was basically the perfect quarantine game.
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Coloradough posted...

I don't like playing the latest and "greatest" games since they flop or need updates or get delayed, so I appreciate that Nintendo has an older/ported library

except nintendo hates price drops. Breath of wild, a launch title that's a port of a wii u title, still $60 new.

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-starter-pack-switch/

mario kart 8, another wii u port, $60

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/mario-kart-8-deluxe-switch/

Odyssey, $60

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/super-mario-odyssey-switch/

pretty much every Nintendo first party doesn't go down in price and anything that isn't a first party is an inferior port that playing on the go might mean enough to look over that fact.

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