This is patently wrong because I don't think you understand the difference between supply, demand, quantity supplied and quantity demanded. Producers can only affect the supply of a good - the price at all levels of quantity supplied. Supply and Demand are totally opposite things. Supply and demand together determine a market price at a quantity demanded and quantity supplied. If the manufacturer limits supply, then at all prices, the quantity supplied will decrease. The demand stays the same which is why there is an increased price. Anyway, basic economics isn't the feature of this thread.
Shady stores wanting to make money. Oh jesus, breh. I won't get into a centralized market vs. free market with you but making a profit isn't shady when they aren't hiding anything from you. You know they are charging a premium because the market is calling for it. You are using that info to not buy the system. Sounds fair to me.
Why do you have to make the distinction between people and stores when referring to a seller? Stores don't sell anything, people do. So the people who do not work for a store and the people who do work for a store, that are selling Switches, are setting their asking prices - it's a silly distinction. People can sell something at whatever price they want...whether they actually sell it is another thing.
Within the same paragraph you contradicted yourself. In one breath you say people don't line up for a console (whether it's in a car or not is irrelevant) then you say those lines do exist for people who want to buy a console. I'd like to respond to that paragraph but without elaboration from you, I'm not sure what you are trying to say there.
Check this out
Here is a relevant snippet:
expected to ship 2 million units before the fiscal year ends in March, Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima said in remarks accompanying the earnings....That 2 million system launch is smaller than the 3.06 million Wii U systems Nintendo shipped during its launch quarter in 2012
They were expecting demand for the Switch to be lower which is why their shipped goal was about 1/3 less than the WiiU. So, since Nintendo is the only supplier of Switches, supply was slated to fall by about a 1/3 from the prior generation. Makes sense. You supply less if the demand is predicted to be less. Keep in mind, they have to complete in the greater video game market which has a bevy of competition and there exist many substitutes.
But wait, I have a theory! There is an awfully large media hype on the Switch right now when it comes to sales and how well it's selling. Could it be that the hype is creating a false sense of very high demand? A sort of imperfect set of information not caused by Nintendo but by those that write and speak about the video game market? With a false, very high demand that outpaces supply of the good, prices are expected to be much much higher....and Nintendo was not involved. I think this is the case.
It explains why you are seeing prices ranging from 329, 385, 393 all the way up to 565 euros. The prices are already crashing because it turns out that very high demand was just hype from the media. Sellers are realizing they can't sell their current stock at silly prices like 565 euros and are lowering prices very quickly - this is why there is not a significant shortage. If there was a serious shortage, that list of prices on Amazon you posted would have all been 565+ euros.
Some seller's prices will remain high but they will be the ones that feel the pain when the market settles if that makes you feel better.
