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This is so dumb.
"We had way more preorders than expected, in order to fulfill our preorders, we will be delaying in store sales until after preorders have been completed"
that would be such a simple solution. It's not like they are out any money either way, and pushing an instore sale date back to make other prior commitments work isn't a horrible thing, it just means that people who didn't bother to preorder won't get it day 1, but most who wanted it day 1 would have pre-ordered it anyway.
They can't renege on deals they've already signed with retailers.
They probably don't have the warehouse capacity to store all those extra units. There's a lot of logistics involved in housing and shipping 2.2mil consoles, and "just wait" can be way harder than you would think.
I think he meant to just not ship to stores until all the online, pre-release orders had been delivered.
Shipping probably already started.
B2B deals will have fine print about when units will arrive and be "released".
It's always been lotteries in Japan.