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This is all about day-1 production-run planning. But what about follow-on runs? The "weird thing" about Nintendo, to me, has always been how little "greater-tha
by derefr 5y ago
This is all about day-1 production-run planning. But what about follow-on runs? The "weird thing" about Nintendo, to me, has always been how little "greater-than-expected demand" seems to influence the supply, even on a 6-month delay. A lot of Nintendo products sit around "sold out" on Amazon for months/years/forever, despite a thriving secondary market for those same products, often with scalpers now charging higher than MSRP for the products.
For example — Amiibo. Why don't Nintendo keep pumping out Amiibo figures until the volume swamps scalpers and people can actually buy the things for $10? It's not like they're trying to create a secondary market for collectors; they want to sell these things to kids, as practical toys, in volume. So where's the volume for the popular figures?
This is so clearly Nintendo's pattern, that it was a big shock to gaming journalists when Nintendo actually decided to restart production for the NES/SNES Classic. Why is something like that such an exception?
- bagels 5y agoIt took nearly a year before the switch was something you could a actually buy
- mattl 5y agoReally? At launch or during lockdown? I had mine on day one and they didn’t seem especially hard to buy at the time.
- bagels 5y agoWe had different experiences. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/nintendo-stock-price-switch-is-sold-out-everywhere-and-investors-couldnt-be-happier-2017-7-1002207426 https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/nintendo-sto... I called a few local stores every few weeks for months shortly after launch, all sold out. Best Buy I think did have some scalper package you could buy for $500.
- mattl 5y agoLooking back at my email, it seems I ordered mine in January 2017 and it arrived on March 6th. When did you try to order?
- staticman2 5y agoIt wasn't particularly hard to get a Switch at launch. I had one without resorting to scalpers or bots.