Given all the replies I’ve had this afternoon (local time) I guess artificial scarcity is understood more often like you describe and not how I had it in mind XD.

XD, Nintendo won’t mind that either of course.

One week of amazing headlines with dozens of weeks of headlines following that are bad would be bad I guess. But the steady flow you see now is based on a particular decision on what the production capacity should be. In a nutshell Nintendo has done it’s factory shopping and decided on one or more factories that could…

Solid argument on the set prices, although that doesn’t apply to Europe, I don’t know about Japan though.

Well good luck this sunday. And if all else fails, just know that Belgium is our meatshield

Man I’ve dreamed this for a whole while and theres is one trilogy that needs this exact treatment more then any other:

Makes you wonder if people are getting Zelda in advance because they can’t get their Switch huh?

Man that would be nice. We’ll see, i’ve been surprised and delighted with Nintendo so many times now, that I’ll be fine either way.

copying my reply to federale:

when this https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2017/170131_4e.pdf reads sold more then expected, then bam succes.

I think your right.

You’ve seen English isn’t my first language (it really isn’t), so help me out, is that:

I’ve plugged this earlier:

You know, I’m in favour of artificial scarcity: let MatPat explain it to you

Take my take with some salt. (I replied to Ishamael with the basic gist of my argument).

I don’t have any sources, so my guess is as good as yours. What I do feel is that the current demand for the Switch is not out of proportion. The amount of people wanting a Switch is not Wii Levels of surprise.

I’m always on the Nintendo fanboy bandwagon, but I’m still a bit wary about it’s sales succes. The time between Splatoon 2 and Mario Oddesy wil be really trying. And E3 will tell if Nintendo has things after that or not.

This is the artificial scarcity making some good headlines. They could have sold a lot more in it’s first weeks and then see it decline more sharply. But no, what were seeing here is a lot more in line with Nintendo’s production capacity then the actual demand.

Oh I missed the announcement of a Tales of port, I’m interested. The sources I quickly googled about it aren’t too convincing though. Do you have a solid source?

You’re incredibely likely spot on. But on the other hand, I don’t see anything that indicates these are gameplay shots and not pre-rendered cutscenes (The article does suggest this is in-game, but the camera angles all look incredibly impractical for gameplay).