So how bad is the Switch stock situation?

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Hi guys, I was wondering if those insane ebay prices were justified, turns out they are...

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People are buying the switch(the naked console) over here for 429 or even 499 Euro (543.18 US Dollar).

It's just insane, and the system is still not available in stores anywhere. I tried to order one on an online store that surprisingly had them in stock, after finishing the order and clicking on buy I was prompted with a dialogue that the item I want is sold out...
 
MTC100 said:
Hi guys, I was wondering if those insane ebay prices were justified, turns out they are...

switch111p3ujw.png


People are buying the switch(the naked console) over here for 429 or even 499 Euro (543.18 US Dollar).

It's just insane, and the system is still not available in stores anywhere. I tried to order one on an online store that surprisingly had them in stock, after finishing the order and clicking on buy I was prompted with a dialogue that the item I want is sold out...
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The situation in Germany is barking mad, even Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is sold out on amazon.de, and some German posters in this thread report very low restock activity. Hope they get put more into the pipeline for you soon!
 
if i didn't have a switch right now, i'd likely pay €500 on Ebay.

Like, if i read all those cool stories / watched those amazing videos of Zelda, and i was unable to play it, i'd choose swallow that 50% price premium. (Buying the Wii U version wouldn't have been an option - wasn't gonna sink any time into a non-transferable save game on a platform that had already been discontinued)

Thankfully, i didn't have to do that :P

There's people for whom which 150$ aren't that hefty of a sum. Usually it's all about not rewarding scalpers. But scalpers gonna scalp, and they are gonna sell that console, anyways. You're not hurting the scalper by boycotting them.
 
MTC100 said:
Hi guys, I was wondering if those insane ebay prices were justified, turns out they are...

switch111p3ujw.png


People are buying the switch(the naked console) over here for 429 or even 499 Euro (543.18 US Dollar).

It's just insane, and the system is still not available in stores anywhere. I tried to order one on an online store that surprisingly had them in stock, after finishing the order and clicking on buy I was prompted with a dialogue that the item I want is sold out...
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Yep, saw some Switches on Amazon.fr at 430€, I figured they had some stock back (was "to be resocked in less than 2 months" before) and they immediatly were sold out and 3rd party sellers put those listing afterward.
This feel like NES Mini again, I thought there would be a lot of stock for MK8D.
 
Sometimes, I get the impression that the release date for ARMS (in mid-June instead of late May) is because they wanted to fix the HW stock situation first.
 
PSFan said:
Yeah the PS2 was hard to find. But Sony seemed to learn from that and the PS3 and PS4 weren't nearly as bad.

Nintendo can't seem to learn anything and the same old excuses keep being thrown around, Old, conservative company, don't want to take a risk, blah blah blah. Many people are fond of saying how long they've been in business, but they always pull the same old stock shenanigans with all their products.
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Except you're once again ignoring the fact that the PS4 was just as hard to find as the Switch for its first few months. This happens with popular consoles that have surprisingly high demand.
 
PSFan said:
Yeah the PS2 was hard to find. But Sony seemed to learn from that and the PS3 and PS4 weren't nearly as bad.

Nintendo can't seem to learn anything and the same old excuses keep being thrown around, Old, conservative company, don't want to take a risk, blah blah blah. Many people are fond of saying how long they've been in business, but they always pull the same old stock shenanigans with all their products.
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You couldn't even buy a PS4 in Japan for 3 months, they launched in one region initially and still had stock issues for months. The PS4 launch was equally as bad.
 
PSFan said:
Yeah the PS2 was hard to find. But Sony seemed to learn from that and the PS3 and PS4 weren't nearly as bad.

Nintendo can't seem to learn anything and the same old excuses keep being thrown around, Old, conservative company, don't want to take a risk, blah blah blah. Many people are fond of saying how long they've been in business, but they always pull the same old stock shenanigans with all their products.
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Aside from the fact that PS4 has been, reportedly, supply constrained for several months in US and Europe (supply started matching demand during March in the former), but putting PS3's debut and Switch's debut on the same level, by saying "Well, PS3 showed they learned, contrary to Nintendo, ahr ahr ahr" is one of the most engaging performances of history revisionism I've ever seen, especially in the West (actually Japan suffered a bit from limited availability due to some production problems at first; not that the demand was that high from begin with - not even the Yakuza wanted it so much to artificially inflate sales).
 
Mpl90 said:
Aside from the fact that PS4 has been, reportedly, supply constrained for several months in US and Europe (supply started matching demand during March in the former), but putting PS3's debut and Switch's debut on the same level, by saying "Well, PS3 showed they learned, contrary to Nintendo, ahr ahr ahr" is one of the most engaging performances of history revisionism I've ever seen, especially in the West (actually Japan suffered a bit from limited availability due to some production problems at first; not that the demand was that high from begin with - not even the Yakuza wanted it so much to artificially inflate sales).
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Switch has not been seen in stores for two months here in Germany

and it's all anecdotal, I know, but PS4 was definitely available in ample supply past chritsmas day, the latest.

I remember doing my rounds in the launch window and I have no recollection of thiking "damn, what's taking them so long to supply stores with the console?" I have no memories of going to stores and PS4 not being available,

the situation is not the same, in any case Sony was more prepared for high demand than Nintendo.
 
sphinx said:
Switch has not been seen in stores for two months here in Germany

and it's all anecdotal, I know, but PS4 was definitely available in ample supply past chritsmas day, the latest.

I remember doing my rounds in the launch window and I have no recollection of thiking "damn, what's taking them so long to supply stores with the console?" I have no memories of going to stores and PS4 not being available,

the situation is not the same, in any case Sony was more prepared for high demand than Nintendo.
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Anecdotally, in the Netherlands the PS4 was still selling out in a whiff at the end of March: http://www.playstation4club.nl/ps4-...s-second-son-bundel-nu-op-voorraad-nederland/ (The source says the PS4 is sold out again after having gone up a few moments before).

It definitely wasn't easily available everywhere, and deciding which is worse (Switch vs. PS4) is a hard thing to do either way since you can't compile enough anecdotal evidence for each system for each region.
 
PSFan said:
Yeah the PS2 was hard to find. But Sony seemed to learn from that and the PS3 and PS4 weren't nearly as bad.

Nintendo can't seem to learn anything and the same old excuses keep being thrown around, Old, conservative company, don't want to take a risk, blah blah blah. Many people are fond of saying how long they've been in business, but they always pull the same old stock shenanigans with all their products.
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Yes. Nintendo is probably more conservative than sony or ms regarding manufacturing.

Nintendo is slow about many things. They frequently miss the ball on their own markets.
AND they are probably the worst regarding communication, which adds to frenzy and frustration.
They certainly deserve criticism.
 
PS4 was sold out months after launch, but do not forget they also sold more than Nintendo has shipped Switches. Like the PS4 sold 4.2m in a month.

But hey, it's going to be fine, some day.
 
UK stock doesn't seem to be that bad for me.

There were consoles in local GAME stores. I just had to go in every day for about 3 days, at opening, to get one.

My local argos had a few in stock after 3 weeks from launch.

Now Tesco and Nintendo have stock for delivery.

So all seems pretty fine here.
 
Kenzodielocke said:
I don't know if thats a pro or contra. Don't know why it matters when it released. Nintendo and Sony both had time to prep.
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Nintendo would have likely produced and sold a similarly high number if the Switch released in November. And if you acknowledge that Sony and Nintendo both had time to prepare for their respective launches and both failed to meet initial demand for months, then I don't get the point of the distinction of numbers shipped.
 
TS-08 said:
Nintendo would have likely produced and sold a similarly high number if the Switch released in November. And if you acknowledge that Sony and Nintendo both had time to prepare for their respective launches and both failed to meet initial demand for months, then I don't get the point of the distinction of numbers shipped.
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I don't see where I said Sony did good and Nintendo not. Both fed the scalpers, really hard - and it's very annoying to me. At least Sony communicated.
 
Haano said:
UK stock doesn't seem to be that bad for me.

There were consoles in local GAME stores. I just had to go in every day for about 3 days, at opening, to get one.

My local argos had a few in stock after 3 weeks from launch.

Now Tesco and Nintendo have stock for delivery.

So all seems pretty fine here.
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I managed to get my son one for his Birthday from Argos. It was oos 2 minutes after ordered though. That was a couple weeks ago though.
 
I saw some in my local CEX store in Nottingham,UK for 300 quid pre-owned. I did scratch my head at who would have traded one in already. I was only in there looking for a WiiU to play Zelda
 
MTC100 said:
Hi guys, I was wondering if those insane ebay prices were justified, turns out they are...

switch111p3ujw.png


People are buying the switch(the naked console) over here for 429 or even 499 Euro (543.18 US Dollar).

It's just insane, and the system is still not available in stores anywhere. I tried to order one on an online store that surprisingly had them in stock, after finishing the order and clicking on buy I was prompted with a dialogue that the item I want is sold out...
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should have scalped.. i had an additional unit and sold it for 10 euros more.. lol
 
Haano said:
UK stock doesn't seem to be that bad for me.

There were consoles in local GAME stores. I just had to go in every day for about 3 days, at opening, to get one.

My local argos had a few in stock after 3 weeks from launch.

Now Tesco and Nintendo have stock for delivery.

So all seems pretty fine here.
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I think it's a bit soon to say it's pretty fine in the UK when GAME and Amazon, surely the two biggest sellers of consoles in the country, have been out of stock for a while. I'd say the barometer for supply having met demand is probably when you can log onto those two sites at pretty much any time and just buy one.
 
Buddy tried to get a Pro controller from best buy yesterday for his new Switch. Was told they're" holding them until Friday". I assume the same is true many other places for Pro controllers as well as systems, for the people purchasing a Switch for Mario Kart.
 
Jackstin said:
Is it still hard to get one? I assumed things had eased off now.
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Here's my baby, got it for 319,- Euro, because of some 10 Euro voucher:

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I got one today over at mediamarkt, a big seller here in Austria and Germany, apparently they got new stock today and I went ahead and reserved one of them online. When I got there only 1 system was left on the shelf, it's probably sold by now.

SporeCrawler said:
should have scalped.. i had an additional unit and sold it for 10 euros more.. lol
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It looks great but oh well.. 429 Euro means that Ebay takes away 42,90 Euro of that amount so you're left with 386,10 euro, those are payed through paypal: they take another 4%, now you're at 370 euro for a 329 euro system. It's debatable if it's worth the hassle and the risk of it not getting sold because Nintendo magically stocks up huge amounts of the system at some point in time.

I'll get Zelda tomorrow via prime(ordered it an hour ago at amazon) and will play the sh*t out of it, and perhaps sell it with the console on ebay if there is still money to be made by then.
 
Principate said:
You couldn't even buy a PS4 in Japan for 3 months, they launched in one region initially and still had stock issues for months. The PS4 launch was equally as bad.
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Are you talking about when it launched in Japan? It launched in 2014 for Japan not 2013. They did a tiered release for different regions.
 
Skittzo0413 said:
Except you're once again ignoring the fact that the PS4 was just as hard to find as the Switch for its first few months. This happens with popular consoles that have surprisingly high demand.
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It was but also was during the holiday season and was up against another Console that launched in the same timeframe.

They also out the gate sold 1 million in 24hrs. The switch has had ample time since it's omit from E3 2016, and it was on Nintendo just like the NES mini to prepare and have enough for a Global launch.

Console shortage isn't something new especially given the circumstances of beginning of this gen during holiday season.
PS4 was also hard to find yes, but Sony was also allocating supply to try and have enough for a first batch when they launched in other territories.

Nintendo couldn't even make enough controllers when they launched the switch let alone make enough for demand when they knew from preorders and gauged excitement how well this was going to sell. If you have no competition and your doing a Global launch why the hell do you only make 2 million for your first allotment?
If your doing a tiered release I get prioritizing allocations like Microsoft and Sony did. Microsoft overshipped, but Sony under shipped and that's when they were breaking sales records.

Nintendo again is making the same mistakes they have made in prior releases. Sony though had a bad drought during a 2-3 month period, but was because of continued holiday shopping and demand past December-January.
Hopefully this get's sorted out this summer as there's no reason to undership and be underprepared when your the only company selling hardware during the slower season.

Edit Double post.
 
After running into another batch at a different Target I couldn't resist the second time. They had about 4-5 more grey.

Used my Amazon credit for Zelda and Puyo and I'm ready for a trip next week.
 
My best friend and myself were each able to grab one from Walmart in Connecticut yesterday morning, was cleaned out by early evening. According to Brickseek, looks like more stock starting to flow in around the state. Figured there would be a good push to get consoles on the shelves for Friday. Was actually kind of shocked that they put consoles out yesterday and didn't just hold them until Friday.
 
GamePlay Johnny said:
Man you're in for a good time.

Why did you resist the first time?
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I have a 100 dollar Amazon gift card and 5% cash back on anything I buy there, so I was holding out until amazon got it in stock (last time was a month ago).

After thinking about it a little more and considering I have a trip next week and plenty of free time I decided to just buy it wherever if I happened to find it in stock again and just use my giftcard on Amazon for games and accessories. Fate was on my side today :)
 
Papacheeks said:
Nintendo couldn't even make enough controllers when they launched the switch let alone make enough for demand when they knew from preorders and gauged excitement how well this was going to sell. If you have no competition and your doing a Global launch why the hell do you only make 2 million for your first allotment?
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There are a few reasons:

1) The WiiU existed, Nintendo produced a lot of units, didn't sell them, had to pay storage fees

2) You plan a shipment for a year, you get contracts with producing facilities and you have to stick to them. They wanted to produce something around 10 milion within the first fiscal year and bumped that up to ~18 million after they saw the huge demand, once they let people pre order the Switch.

If the Switch would have launched after the Wii, we'd likely not have such shortages but to be honest, even in a country where scalpers sell Switches for 499 Euro I was able to snatch one for regular 329 with a 10 euro voucher even. And I only started looking for a Switch really hard a day ago because I decided I couldn't wait any longer on Zelda and probably Mario Kart.

Moral of story: People that REALLY want one, will get one, you might have to be a bit lucky and need to be patient but that's on you, you could always have pre-ordered the damn thing when it was announced, effectively already playing the system for a whole month.

And the situation in the US looks much less dire than here over at Europe:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-Sw...411517?hash=item4b160bae7d:g:YtoAAOSw53NY~PBb

If you want you can snatch a Switch for 329,- maybe 349 once the auction is finished(less than 2 hours left), which is still only what the regular price of the Switch is here in Europe.
 
MTC100 said:
There are a few reasons:

1) The WiiU existed, Nintendo produced a lot of units, didn't sell them, had to pay storage fees
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I would assume number 1 is the big reason why. Look at it from Nintendo's perspective. If you were Nintendo and looking at the failure of Wii U, would you really want to overship and have units sitting there and have a repeat situation of Wii U? Sure, hindsight is 20/20, and you could say that Nintendo should have seen the demand coming, but can you really blame them for being a bit conservative with their shipments?
 
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