>>6000968Except, no, hes not, you god damn idiot.
There is no set "slots." They don't have a set number of a figure type that the must adhere to. Hell, take the other day on Bandai day. Not a single new Robot Damashii went up for preorder. Not one.
Now, why doesn't Bandai just release everything at once? Its called not flooding the market you god damned retard. Yes, the could easily release 10+ Dragon Ball SHFs in a single month, but doing so would hurt over all sales. SHFs aren't cheap. They could put out more, but in the end sell less total product that month as the average target of those releases might not be able to afford everything in that month.
This is fucking the basics of business, and I haven't even gotten into the fact that Dragon Ball isn't their only SHF line. Not only would releasing 10+ DB SHFs in one month potentially eat in the sales of each other, but there other figures could eat into their sales as well. Kamen Rider is their top seller, so, what if some of the buyers of the DB figs in Japan also buy Kamen Rider SHFs? What is Bandai gonna asume is the more likely fig to take priority to that person? Then, you have to take into account that Bandai has other toylines, too. Robot Damashii and the nonSH kinds of Figuarts are two of the other main ones, but there are others. Bandai has to weight their options and take a guess what will yield the maximum number of sales in a month, and while their easily could do a 100+ Tamashii Namtions toys in a month, they know that not everything will sell in that one month, and hurt profits. And profit matters.
Now, you might say "THAT IS EXACTLY A SLOT SYSTEM!" And you know what? I will concede if you can go back and look through the entire history of TN releases and show definitive proof that they have to release X amount of SHFs, or hell, that they can only release an exact set amount of products in a month.
Burden of proof is on you now. Until you got it, kindly shut the fuck up.
