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Old 05-01-2011, 05:55 PM
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PNQ1: Is this a valid criticism?
Never played any of the games, but the implied logic seems sound to me.
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PNQ2: If a retailer wants to buy X units and a game company is able to manufacture X units, should the game company be obligated to sell them X units?
Not unless they have an agreement to that effect. The retailer can make it clear to the consumer that the company is the bottleneck, though.
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PNQ3: Isn't there a certain ratio of "number of pre-orders" to "number of games sold in the first three months of release" that's pretty consistent? If X million people have preordered OOT 3D, should this be considered a hint to Nintendo to manufacture 5X (or whatever) copies of the game?
I would guess that that ratio varies from one game to the next. That said, I don't think of Link and Zelda as being a niche game series (strong, broad name recognition), so I would expect the actual number in place of your 5 to be fairly large.
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