grap3fruitman
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Are you kidding me? Even the stupid plastic Mario Kart wheel is out of stock... Of course my gf wants one. -_-
So how bad is the Switch stock situation?
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I was looking for a Switch since release but they were always sold out here in Germany. I finally managed to order a grey one online and a minute later all were sold out again.
Seems some retailers may get a new batch of neon ones this upcoming week. Really happy I could get the grey one I wanted.
Seems some retailers may get a new batch of neon ones this upcoming week. Really happy I could get the grey one I wanted.
Louis Cyphre
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I still see lots on Amazon and E-Bay for sale but all of them for higher than asking price. Which makes me wonder what the ratio of people who do find one at retail price are actually using it.
So how many are available? Hundreds, thousands? You are aware that the Switch sells millions I take it?
Yo! You finally have a GF! Congrats man!
Friend of Sonic
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Anyone buy a Switch in May? Does your serial start with 1?
Louis Cyphre
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The production so far is still lower than what Sony and Microsoft shipped during the same timeframe is it not? I am just wondering how much of the aftermarket sales are in conjunction with demand.
It's probably more. We won't know for a while as all we have are March numbers (launch month's numbers are always skewed), but we do have Japan's weekly numbers. It looks like Nintendo consistently ships 45k a week to Japan. US is about 3 times larger than Japan, and they probably ship 2-3 times there than what they do to Japan. That would mean somewhere between 360-540k a month to America. Looking at first year sales of PS4 to America after the holiday season, it looks to average about 300k a month, Xbox about just shy of 200k.*
*This is all just a guess and we really won't know for quite some time.
Fahzgoolin
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This thread makes me feel like we should grab switches and sell them back to one another.
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LFMartins86
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A bit lower than Sony, on par or higher than Microsoft. You have to remember that the Switch had a worldwide simultaneous event while the PS4 has released in Europe 2 weeks after the USA and Japan only got it 3 months later and the Xbox One released on Japan and some European countries only a year later than the USA and the major European countries.
Has been about the same in Sweden (based on the online status of the major online stores). Almost impossible to find any Switch before the MK8 DX release, then stock appeared at MK8 DX release, but sold out right away. Grey Switch has been out of stock since since about 3 days after that release date, but now there seems to be a fairly steady supply of neon Switch.
Wuthering_Heights
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Anyone hear anything about Amazon getting more in Stock on the 17th?
Wickerbasket
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I bought one at Asda on Friday, impulse bought while doing my shopping.
Cashier mentioned they had plenty of stock, but they didn't have the neon.
Cashier mentioned they had plenty of stock, but they didn't have the neon.
Those scalpers are fanatical, aren't they?This was outside the Nintendo NYC Store on Friday night:
boiled goose
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There have only been 46 genuine sales. The rest of them are scalpers.
metalslimer
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The funny thing is that NPD is counting Ebay resales and Nintendo's shipments aren't affected by it. Also the thing about is Scalpers is Nintendo is still getting the money for a Switch being bought.
pretty done
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This was outside the Nintendo NYC Store on Friday night:
I don't know whether to laugh or to feel bad. I'd probably give them each a dollar if I walked past that.
Why doesn't Amazon.it can't give them to Amazon.fr, it's consistently sold out since April here. Regular 3rd party sellers (scalper) have been hovering at 400 since.
Of course on Amazon.it says they don't ship to France.
If you have any local game shops around I'd check those, I went to one a few days ago that had 1 in stock and got them @ MSRP
OrbitalBeard
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They spend a few hours waiting for a Switch outside. You spend time every day posting on a video game enthusiast message board on the internet.
Probably balances out.
Theonik
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Because that's not how it works. Hell, I bet most of the scalpers get their units from Italy or other continental markets. Every retailer I visited when I was visiting in back in April Greece had about a dozen switch consoles on display and about half a dozen NES Minis.
Unsurprisingly, I then looked at NES Mini scalpers on eBay and most of the listings were in fact from Greece.
Twilight Princess
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they have money, they don't want a dollar, they want a switch.
Louis Cyphre
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Both good points, April numbers should be out soon so it's going to be interesting to see how much Nintendo has adjusted.
Glendemonium
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This was outside the Nintendo NYC Store on Friday night:
Ah, to be young and hard into gaming without a care in the world, no debt, and excess time and spending money (And a job that lets me take time off when I ask for it.)
Interesting that they're (almost) all women.This was outside the Nintendo NYC Store on Friday night:
callhitman
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That's what I was thinking
This was outside the Nintendo NYC Store on Friday night:
Guess we can now rule out for certain on Switch becoming a Wii U failure.
Never saw pics of people in line/camping/sleeping 2-3 months after Wii U's launch. But honestly the Switch is a fantastic designed console i would do the same if i did not own one yet.
ghostwritingduck
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They don't have that much money if they're camping recently. The markup price on eBay isn't that large and GameStop has had for retail price bundles.
This was outside the Nintendo NYC Store on Friday night:
Damn.
And to think I rolled out of bed a few minutes early, got to walmart 3 min before they opened and was 6th in line.
I always feel like day 1 is easier than post launch.
Interface23
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Or they don't want to buy for resellers or forced bundles
Those bundles are a ripoff.
The_Inquisitor
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I've seen 1 in the wild so far. The guy was waiting for a saleperson to get it out of the case.
PSFan
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This was outside the Nintendo NYC Store on Friday night:
Are you sure they are there for Nintendo NYC? People camp there for the Today show too when there's a big star on. Looks like they might have spent the weekend. Who is scheduled for the Today show tomorrow morning and are they doing anything in the Plaza?
TheGreatMightyPoo
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PSFan
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For all we know majority of these people are paid by Nintendo to create hype or scalpers
BravesCountry
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I just got back to NYC after studying abroad the past 4 months and I was really expecting there to be more switches available by now.
One of the videogame stores around here is selling it marked up at $450, and now I see this picture of these people camping in front of the nintendo store. Looks like it might be a while for me.
One of the videogame stores around here is selling it marked up at $450, and now I see this picture of these people camping in front of the nintendo store. Looks like it might be a while for me.
I actually saw someone playing one sitting right in front of me on the plane a few weeks ago. I watched him play Mario Kart for a few hours, and then had to avert my eyes when he switched to Zelda.
PSFan
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Wow, what's with the pile on? I used to work in that area and people camped out there all the time for the Today show. I've actually seen it like that when celebrities like Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato are going to be performing. Not everything is about Nintendo.
reelbigtink
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If people are camped outside of the NINTENDO STORE it's probably about Nintendo.
WizardofPeace
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Tried my luck at Best Buy today and nada. Manager said they get some shipments on Wednesdays. The search goes on...
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