Why does nintendo do this...[underproduction]

[MVS]

If there are 1.4-2 million GC's in Japan...

Why would Nintendo ship only 400K copies of SMS?

Why not ship a million and sell a million?

Someone explain this to me.

[Shin Johnpv]

because its what nintendo always does at least here in the US

i know my boss said were going ot have majorly limited quantities of Mario here like enough for our reserves and maybe 1 or 2 more thats it

it happened with Zelda OOT and Mario 64 if you didnt pre-order those games and get them right a way you were shit out of luck

at least in this area

same thing happened with Super Smash Bros Melee
Resident Evil GC remake
Eternal Darkness

Nintendo is just like that

theyll ship 400,000 in japan for this first week probably 400,000 next week

dont forget nintendo had a huge robbery recently maybe all the games that were stolen were hundreds of t housands of copies of sunshine *LOL*

[NeoZeedeater]

Nintendo is releasing an '80's Sega console? Wow, the market has changed.

[bbobb]

Originally posted by mattvanstone
If there are 1.4-2 million GC's in Japan...

Why would Nintendo ship only 400K copies of SMS?

Why not ship a million and sell a million?

Someone explain this to me.

Because Nintendo Logic is completely opposing and inconsistent with any real world logic.

[Hero]

maybe since GC sales have been so slow in Japan, Nintendo figured to 'play it safe' and see if the public actually wanted another Mario game. Ten years ago such a question would be silly, but with the birth of the 'mature' gamer, too many people balk at anything 'cute' for Nintendo to honestly think every GC owner would want Mario. Maybe they don't even see Mario as a system seller in this new age of gaming.

Oh, and since it did sell out, of course they'll push more out soon.

[Astral]

Originally posted by NeoZeedeater
Nintendo is releasing an '80's Sega console? Wow, the market has changed.

Yep everytime I see SMS I think Sega master system till I figure that it doesn't fit in with the context. Then i'm like ohh super Mario Sunshine. Though I thought they dropped the super part from this mario.

[sleeve]

Originally posted by Astral


Yep everytime I see SMS I think Sega master system till I figure that it doesn't fit in with the context. Then i'm like ohh super Mario Sunshine. Though I thought they dropped the super part from this mario.

Fight the power!

I refuse to refer to Super Mario Sunshine as SMS.

[MVS]

I dunno... +- 370K for the first sales week released and 27K GC's then, isn't amazing.

If it sells out, why not put 1 million out there, and push up the GC sales, so they would at least beat Sony sometime this year.

True, people over there do seem to like a different type of game, but if SSBM can sell an assload, why would nintendo think that SMS would not do the same?

John, these aren't the days of carts anymore, and making those mini-cd's is a lot faster, easier and cheaper now.

It just don't make sense.

[supermario]

Creating an artifitial demand for the game?

Look what it did for Yugioh cards.

People usually fiend for what they want but cant have right away.

[bbobb]

nintendo = kings of artifical shortages. If the game is impossible to get it just raises the demand, that's the way nintendo thinks at least.

And you know as of so far it has worked pretty well for them, so they may be right.