>3 months after launch >people still forming lines in hopes

We are winning so hard.

its only because of Nintendo not producing enough units to meet demand, and the units that are shipped and produced being snatched up scalpers watching stock like hawks.

Nintendo is fucking garbage at this. always will be.

Was like this for the WiiU as well...what happened to the WiiU again?

build a wall now

>>379162398
>Nippon

Do you have a pic of somewhere that is actually relevant?

its funny because in europe every store has fucking loads that they can't even sell, switch is even on sale in a store by my house

>>379162634
its funny because i live in europe too and they are sold out literally everywhere

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What kind of autistic cities ever sell out?

My city never sold out of switches, WiiU or Wii, infact consoles never sell out here.

Is it just small towns? My local gamestop still sells PS4's a few times a week, the Switch less so.

They also have PS4's demos to play and 3Ds's but no Switch demos for some reason.

>>379162681
>available on every amazon

hmm...really makes me think

>>379162918
I live in L.A. and most places are either out of stock or quickly run out. And judging from sites like nowinstock it is pretty common everywhere.

>>379163054
>scalpers

really does

>>379162446
>we

What did she mean by this?

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>>379162681
Still available here in shitaly. Probably because the piece of shit costs 130€ more than the ps4.

>>379163054
In Germany its not available on amazon and prime now. So which "every amazon" are you speaking off? No wonder people cant afford it in poor countries...

>>379163429
Why would someone buy the piece of crap before a PS4?

In Japan, where people form lines for fucking pancakes? Also, with Nintendo product, notorious for creating intentional artificial scarcity? Yeah, no surprise there.

That said, I don't know if I'm supposed to be happy for the success of Switch or not. On one hand, it's good to see a product that does not seem to be particularly exploitative or fucked up resonating positively with the public.
On the other hand, it's a fucking console, a concept that is INHERENTLY anti-consumerist and damaging to the industry. So I'm torn here.

>>379162918
>What kind of autistic cities ever sell out?
Japanese ones, I guess. A lot of people, and artifical scarcity intentionally induced by both the vendors and the company.

>>379164273
>only 70,000 more than the Wii U

delete this

>>379162398
Nintendo does the stupid minimal supply and high demand shit so it looks like tons of people want their products

>>379162512
Sile difference was that the wiiu couldn't leave the house, the switch can.

>>379163985
>Why would someone buy the piece of crap before a piece of crap?

>>379164462
>with a underclocked cpu

no thanks

>>379164230
>damaging to the industry
This would be PC then. Consolesales fund games. PC just pirates, buys off of keysites for 12$ or at a Steam sale for 0.90$. PC is the cancer that kills the Industry.

>>379163429
And this is one of the many reasons I love living in romania, stuff that costs 60€ outside is only 45 here, even AAA games.

>>379164372
The point is that it's below the 3DS.

>>379164496
PS4 is actually a fantastic system though you cuck.

>>379164496
Just like I'd sooner choose to eat horse shit to elephant shit, I'd sooner choose severely underpowered normal hardware to something that's 1:1 identical to google's new tablet

>>379164558
PCfag here, haven't bought a full price game since Portal 2 thanks to gabens jew sales.

>>379162491

>it's only because Nintendo didn't make enough consoles

Yeah, but why would people literally be waiting in line for rationed out switches if they didn't really want one? It is still indicative of the fact people are excited about the system.

>>379162512
Proof?

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>>379162398
No surprise

>>379164292
the most annoying part is that they do this with software too

no point in waiting for the price to drop in a few years because artificial scarcity means the prices will still be high

>>379164651
>t. Fifachad05

>>379162918

They sold out in Houston for months. I got mine by luck at a Walmart because I showed up right after the truck had dropped some off. Everywhere else had been empty and the people on the floor told me they were selling out instantly after every shipment.

>>379162634
Poland here, I was in the electronic market one week ago and they still had 4 Nintendo Switch consoles. I bet that's how much they got in the first place.

>>379164462
For three (3) hours before the battery dies, and won' t fit in your pocket once it does. Nice "handheld", nintendo.

>>379164558
Sure. Except that as of now, PC market is arguably the most lively and makes profits roughly equal to the combined profits of all remaining major consoles combined. It's also the biggest breeding ground for indie and medium-sized developers. But otherwise, totally unviable and killing the industry... Look kiddo, fuck off. This kind of argument is tiresome and pointless.

>>379164724
Japan has some really weird attitudes towards market, to be honest. Between this weird artificial scarcity practice, the obsession with incomplete products and editioning... I never understood the Jap spending habits when it comes to pop-media. And it's not just like they are being straight-up exploitative, more like the market being weirdly demanding of this shit.
I will never understand how people can actually LIKE the idea that there are always several different versions of the same product, each slightly different, meaning that if you want the actual complete experience, you need to buy the same product several times: but Japs apparently actually fucking LOVE that shit. I will just never understand this.

>>379162512
For the first week or two, maybe.

But within a month stores had plenty of supply since no one was really buying it.

>>379164863
Yeah. I saw about two hundred of those things in a major electronic retailer just a few days ago in Czech Rep. That said: it's not exactly surprising - eastern Europe was never really all that partial to consoles.

>>379164273
>only system to not have had holidays period during those 13 weeks.

>>379164992
didnt the wii out sell the ps3?

>>379164718
oh look, another monhun, time to hunt some mons I guess

>>379165004
Wii U sold first weeks on the pre-market hype based on popularity of Wii and brand recognition, but it really wasn't endorsed by anyone else: neither hardware critics and reviews, nor developers.

Switch, apparently, managed to get quite a few people on board even post release. Multiple developers talking quite enthusiastically about the thing in media, good hardware reviews, and also, very, very strong launch title: not only a new Zelda, but one of the critically most praised Zeldas in long time.

What launch titles did Wii U have, anyway? I don't remember a single one of them.

>>379165039
You forgot 3DS and PS4. At least for the newer console launches in Japan.

>>379164673
I'm with you bro, thing is I'm willing to buy Tekken 7 soon. It'll be my 5th game on PC I'd buy for a full price.

>>379164872
who even fits handheld gadgets into pockets these days? you don't own a bag?

>>379165154
zombiu i think

>>379164558
>still the le buying games during sales are bad meme

You memers do realize that sales aren't being done for charity? If selling games for cheap during sales wasn't worth for the company and weren't generating profit, then they would have stopped doing this years ago. It's not PCfags fault that you feel fucking stupid for buying something for 60$ when you could have got the same for less than half the prize if you waited a little.

>>379162398
>wait patiently for an hour
>get a console
It's not really that bad, it looks like a nice day in the pic

>>379165045
>didnt the wii out sell the ps3?
Long term? Sure. In first 13 weeks? Apparently not. I mean the insanity of Wii really came only a few months after the release, when it was discovered by the normie population. I mean, fuck, the thing was endorsed by Oprah at one point, who recommended it to several million bored housewifes. The buildup of Wii's success was pretty slow.

>>379165231
Oh yeah! That game... existed. Clearly a Nintendo flagship property, too.

>>379165045
Yes, but because it's not a PlayStation it doesn't count. Only Sony is allowed to top the charts.

>>379165154
>What launch titles did Wii U have, anyway?
New Super Mario Bros. U.

>>379165289
>Wait patiently for an hour
>Get a lottery ticket
>Get a 1/200 chance at buying a console

I don't get why Nintendo doesn't just take stock sitting uselessly unsold in Europe and Australia and move it to NA and Japan where there are shortages.

>>379165296
with is now on pc ps4 and xboxone

>>379166018
It's still sold out in Europe, not just everywhere.

>>379166018
Because getting all the Switches out of Poland won't put a dent in the demand elsewhere.

>>379165039
PS2 was released in March in Japan also, anon. I know because I was there to get one.

Fuck, I'm old.

>>379165474
Again. Those are first 13 weeks sales only: e.g. how big was the launch. And Wii wasn't particularly amazing at the launch. Sure, ultimately it sold more units than PS3 in the long run (basic google search claims that Wii sold around 101 million units, while PS3 sold "only around 80 million). Nobody is really disputing this shit, it has fuck all to do with console fanboyism, it's just hard numbers.

>>379165861
Thanks, I forgot about it. But is another Mario platformer really such a big deal? I'm genuinely asking, I don't really understand preferences of console users, particularly Nintendo customers. It just does not seem like such a big deal, since it's basically the same game they have been making since 85.

>>379166028
To be fair, the game was ported once Wii U became apparent failure, and there was no point in sitting on it if it's not going to be sold...

>>379166018
I think you may underestimate the volumes that were shipped to the regions where it's not sold out. I mean: sure there are hundreds of those machines sitting and gathering dust in East Europe, but really: it's just hundreds. Not hundreds of thousands that the starved regions demand. The shipping costs alone would probably not make that worth it.
Plus, the market starvation brings some benefits to the vendors and the company.

>>379164292
The Japs have about a 5 point median IQ advantage over whites.

Maybe a the capability to play vidya requires a slightly above American average IQ

I live in a small town with less than 15k people. There's a walmart, gamestop and best buy here. They usually have them in stock but sometimes faggots from the nearby city, ~40 miles away, drive over here to buy them. I saw a fag buy like 10 switches at once to scalp.

>>379163310
>high demand for switch games coming
>devs shifting to switch
>switch owners will have games
Also, it's a console that focuses on local multiplayer so the more owners, the better

>>379162398
90% of the people in that image are parents getting it for their child/children.

here is a fun fact

the wiiU had more games at launch than the switch

>>379162491
>Company who have been trading for over 100 years and have enough money in the bank to run a $250 million a year loss for the next 50 years straight don't know what they're doing.

Ok kid, sure.

Does Japan not understand the concept of handing out tickets to people standing in line so everyone knows how many units are in and can go on with the rest of their day? Who the fuck lets dozens of people stand outside for hours without any fucking idea whether or not they can get their hands on a unit? This picture doesn't even look that early in the morning before stores are open, what the fuck?

>>379164273
>fucking wonderswan sells better than xbox one

>>379162634
same in ireland, fuck tons of them in every store

>>379166271
>since it's basically the same game they have been making since 85.
Well, other companies could have made a GOAT open world game but it was only Nintendo that made one.

>>379166283
>The Japs have about a 5 point median IQ advantage over whites.
And Ashkenazi Jews have about 10-15 points advantage over the Japs. Not that these numbers really mean anything. I don't see how IQ really plays into business marketing strategies here though.

>>379163054
UK here, Amazon is sold out. And has been sold out for months.

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>>379162634
>Sold out everywhere in the only European area that matters, the UK

Never understood this. I want one but seriously who the fuck stands in line for a tablet?

Same thing with phones. Just wait.

>>379166559
lol no it hasnt, it was in stock for like 2 months

>>379166676
No it wasn't. They've been sold out since early april.

>>379166283
>IQ memes all over /v/ today

I used to want /pol/ out but now I see how they're the only thing keeping the literal Jews out.

>>379162918
Do you live in a city with more or less than 1mil pop?

So many mad as fuck Sonykeks in this thread

>>379166759
>>379166759
http://www.nowinstock.net/uk/videogaming/consoles/nintendoswitch/full_history.php

its been in stock practically every week

>>379166804
im just trying to find out how well the switch is doing

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>>379164694
>Implying there isn't a veritable hoard of retarded virgins that will be obsessed with any console, no matter how shitty

>>379166768
I find it hilarious that /pol/ with their history of spite towards Jews would ever use IQ as an argument for anything.

Nintendo created an artificial demand for the Switch because it literally has no games. It's the only reason why people are still talking about it. Their strategy is to create an artificial scarcely until the holiday season rolls around. Just when Mario Odyssey is released.

>>379164372
The Wii U sold really well at launch, it just dropped off after.

I'm still on the fence if I want to get one.
Switch has almost no exclusives that I want, other than Zelda.
I've got a XB1 and PS4, and do the vast majority of my gaming on PC.

>>379166432
The Wonderswan is dope though

>>379162398
those aren't 'people'

>>379166915
/pol/ is awful
But Jews are worse
IQ means nothing

>>379166926
On 'launch', people are still having trouble getting Switch's 3 months later, Wii U's started piling up in stores after 3 months.

>>379162491
The switch isn't out of stock in any country though. People are just too lazy to go to another store beyond their closest.

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>>379166836
From april. Feel free to check the exif data. Its been like this for two months.

Hows it feel to be BTFO?

>>379167128
how about the other colors?

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>>379166836
>>379167128

Oh looky, check the exif data still out last month. Want me to keep going?

>>379167128
dumb phoneposter

I want to sell my neon joycon Switch I bought at launch. I have BotW and MK8 with a Pro controller. I will take 450 US for it. It has barely been used besides to beat BotW and maybe a couple hours in MK8.

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>>379162427
>all for literally one game that lasts you 30 hours tops
really makes you think

>>379162427
After playing Yakuza 0 all this makes me think of is fishing.

>selling out
i don't know how this is even possible.

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>>379167343

>>379167343
The nips are getting it for MK8, Splatoon and Monster Hunter. Shit is going to be ten times as hard to find once Splatoon comes out.

>>379167058
>/pol/ is awful
Agreed.
>But Jews are worse
Jews are basically a meme at this point.
>IQ means nothing
Not "nothing", but it tends to be overrated and it does not mean what most people think it means.
I just find it hilarious that group obsessed with anti-semitism would put so much emphasis on something in which Jews score by massive margin the best in the world. Seriously, Jews score on average 15-20 points more than whites, 10-15 more than East Asians. It's just that the obsession with this particular psychometric does not fit well with their antisemitic sentiments.

Why would people grudge Nintendo having a successful console. Don't you silly kids realise that that one company's success makes the entire industry better off? The immaturity in this board is staggering.

I live in Japan and I can confirm the scarcity. It's easy to buy from Amazon though, I don't understand those lines at all.

>>379167837
Nintendo might as well not even exist in the industry, since the Gamecube they've been off in their own insulated world.

>>379167945
And that's a bad thing because..?

>>379167945
That's some fucked up way of looking at the world.

>>379168076
Because they're still playing catch up nearly 15 years later, they still don't have basic online features that the original Xbox had.

>>379167604
>>379166526
IQ is actually pretty good predictor of life success, health and even general psychological well-being.

It's basically the single most powerful predictive tool we have available to us.

The fact that intelligent people are more likely to be able to both afford and successfully play Videogames could have something to do with sales numbers.

>>379164808
Pasadena can confirm. Toys r us said they sell out of the 4 or 5 they get the same day

>>379168242
And online is absolutely everything when it comes to games right

>>379162491
Nice facts you got there.

>>379168242
They're not playing catch up with anything. Back during they Wii launch, the correctly predicted that the incessant need for consoles to needlessly try and top each other every generation would eventually lead to stagnation. Which is exactly the fucking place we're in now. Sony and Microsoft are bringing nothing to the table except shit-tier PC rigs (Sony have had the same fucking control pad for 25 years for fucks sake). Nintendo are the only company making innovative hardware anymore. Everyone else has given up. Tell me who is more irrelevant?

>>379168342
In 2017 yes it is, Nintendo keeps trying to make local multiplayer happen but no one gives a shit, people play their games online and digitally now.

>>379163054
Not available on amazon.de right now unless you want to pay top bucks to a scalper

>>379168501
>Nintendo keeps trying to make local multiplayer happen but no one gives a shit

Virgin McNoFriends.

>>379168501
>Nintendo keeps trying to make local multiplayer happen but no one gives a shit

Go back to your Ubisoft games Fredrick

>>379162918
Not everyone lives in the sticks, cowboy.

>>379162634
when i saw switch prices in my country i keked.
why would anyone buy switch which LITERALLY costs 50% more than PS4 slim / xbox and has no games included?
also i had a chance to play with it, quality, especially the dock, is extremely bad.
europeans are just to intelligent too buy switch.

>>379168612

There are weekly threads for MK8 lobbies for the weekend because no one has any fucking RL friends to couch it up with so they have to play with random ass 4chan shitters. Can you even imagine being so fucking lonely, you SEEK OUT 4chan players to game with?

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>>379164273
>nintendo handheld sales have been decreasing ever since the GBA
>the switch is the first time they have dropped below 1mil

why did this have to be?

>>379168819
fucking smartphones

>>379162398
>still no Switches in my hometown
>there haven't been any sense launch

>>379168871
Nintendo could easily push on the smartphone market. They don't care about graphics. Problem is, most people won't spend anymore than 99c on a smartphone "app". Even if it's a good game with hours of content. They'd either have to push ads hard as fuck to get people to buy games or offer free/99c apps with microtransactions. Hell, didn't they try that already with a Mario game? Was free but had to pay for levels or some shit? Didn't that fail hard?

>>379167338
>>379169014

For everyone who is still wanting a Switch, PLEASE TAKE IT OFF MY HANDS. I should have bought a new GPU. I live in Ohio.

>>379169086
Nintendo tried charging $15 for that stupid game and they said it sold well below their expectations. But FE Heroes and Pokemon GO are still fairly popular, I think Nintendo won't try to make a premium app game again.

>>379169182
oh lol I don't want one (yet), I'm just commenting that I haven't seen a physical Switch since the midnight release of BotW, which I got for Wii U.

Might as well wait until end of this year or a little ways into next year when the console actually has games.

>>379169086
Mario Run was a business model which was alwaya going to fail. Everybody knew it. It's almost like Nintendo had to see for themselves that it would fail before they believed it. I don't think they'll try it again.

>>379169182
>Living in Ohio
You have made poor decisions in your life before I see

>>379169086

>didn't that shit fail hard?

Nope. And this is as of January. What's more, Fire Emblem Heroes has grossed even more than Mario Run.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/31/14451180/super-mario-run-paying-conversation-rate-revenue

>>379169396
>mario run sold 3.9 mil times

That's not bad.

>>379169364

It isn't the greatest but cost of living is low and there isn't crazy crime or anything like that. It is the definition of average. Either way, none of that matters in my quest to play games and SELL MY SWITCH.

>>379168612
Yeah because when you think people who play Nintendo you think of someone popular with tons of friends, right? You laud every feature or lack of feature Nintendo implements because you are a fanboy. If they had good internet services you'd love it. Fucking fanboy hypocrite.

>>379162398
>>379162491
What is this shitty meme?

>go on amazon
>receive it in 24h at your doorstep

>>379163310
>she

>>379169840
which country?

>>379169086
The vast majority of big mobile games makes money off whales and dolphins.
They're 1% of players who spends up to hundreds every month on it

>>379168501
Local multiplayer is still a draw, just in Japan. Nintendo doesn't understand how the western market works at all and that we do all of our gaming online now.

>>379169865
literally any

france
https://www.amazon.fr/Console-Nintendo-Switch-avec-Joy-Con/dp/B01N5OPMJW/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1496671745&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=nintendo+switch

USA
https://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Switch-Gray-Joy-Con/dp/B01LTHP2ZK/ref=sr_1_2?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1496671712&sr=1-2&keywords=nintendo%2Bswitch&th=1

Italy
https://www.amazon.it/Nintendo-Switch-Blu-Rosso-Neon/dp/B01N5OPMJW/ref=sr_1_3?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1496671795&sr=1-3&keywords=nintendo+switch

>>379170062
>france
400€, scalper, not official price
>usa
404 dollars, scalper price
>italy
valid

so only italy, then

>>379169543
That's amazing. People see the 3% adoption rate and think it sucks not knowing that it's way above average for the mobile market. Heroes made more money because it caters to whales, but since these games are advertisements Nintendo prefers the single purchase model.

>>379170135
>>379170062
BTFO

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>>379170135
rly makes me think

>>379170345
>w-woah you can p-preorder something that'll be out in well over a month.. w-woah
Good chance you'll get a "sorry we took to many preorders and can't fulfill yours" mail from amazon once it's out anyway, happened with the switch at launch already

>>379166409
It's a line for a chance to win a Switch, not a line to buy a Switch.

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>>379167343
But the Switch will have many great games, such as Skyrim™: Nintendo™ Switch™ Edition! How do you not already have one?

>>379163985
Because I have a PC many times more powerful than a PS4.

>>379170460
Sonybros are the kings at moving goalposts

>>379164558
>Consolesales fund games
kek

>>379166271
don't forget that Sony loves to include estimated numbers of private re-sells into their statistics

>>379162398
>use nowinstock.net to check whenever a GTX 1080 was in stock.
>Get GTX 1080 before everybody at regular retail price. No price gouged.
>Do same with Switch
>Check every so often maybe once or twice a day for a week
>Finally one opens up
>Buy it non-price gouged.
>Get switch a week later.

Lines are for plebs.

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>>379162918
Chattanooga and the surrounding area has been sold out for a while. Not the biggest city, but still.

>>379162427
>>379162398
>no proof/ evidence theyre waiting in line for switch

>>379162918
The DFW metroplex doesn't have them.

>>379165154
The Wii U actually had one of the largest launch lineup of any console. Unfortunately, most of that lineup was old, halfassed ports (ACIII), shit ports (everything by EA Sports; FIFA 13 on Wii U was just a reskinned FIFA 12, unlike the PS360 versions), overpriced ports (ME3, released at the same time as the other platforms got the full trilogy for the same price) etc. etc.

https://archive.is/20131105060453/http://www.ign.com/wikis/wii-u/Wii_U_Launch_Games_(US)