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Originally Posted by whiskyb
I've been phoning around and none of the local shops have any till boxing day. Sounds kind of funny as I imagine they are probably already sitting in the back room. Can't see a truck delivering them all xmas day.
I'll keep looking
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Actually they are probably not sitting in the back.
I've been in the video games business 15 years now.
The distribution model these days is "on demand allocation".
Nintendo has been having trouble meeting demand since last year.
Everyone in the industry goes through great pain to have product drop at all the diff retailers at the same time. Does not matter if you give them a shelf date, if it's in the warehouse it will be on the shelf as quick as possible.
BestBuy knows if they don't sell it to you then GameStop will.
Sometimes logistics screws up and one retailer gets it a day before everyone else and the buyers go absolutely bat****.