Nintendo Exec Comments On SNES Classic Supply

Nintendo could probably have loaded all the classic NES games, PLUS the SNES games on a 64 gig internal memory. Then surely everyone would be happy, and the Classic, (read Ancient), SNES clone might even be worth buying!

Oh well, as the saying goes, fools and their money are soon parted.

So we definitely can't call Nintendo "fools", as far as recycling the recycled goes.

I had to pay €99 for my preorder. That's like $110 or something. Was sold out in minutes. Even though I paid €30 more I still feel lucky.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/07/27/nintendos-artificial-scarcity-is-a-myth-but-supply-is-now-its-greatest-challenge/#5af463064810

For those ppl that always complain about the nintendo supply.

Game stores could also be holding lots back to promote their shitt y overpriced bundles

lol this would be newsworthy or even half truth... if nintendo hadnt pulled this "artificial scarcity" trick countless times in the past

Just goes to show Nintendo sells themselves short. Even they don't believe in their company anymore, so why should anybody else. I really can't stand this guy, he's so smug but he sucks at his job.

You are a liar Reggie and just a transparent mouthpiece of Nintendo of Japan with zero control over anything. Money has already been exchanged, minis have been scalped and sold to Nintendo fans and NOJ doesn't give afffuuuuuck. If you actually had more stock you would have opened the pre-orders and spoken via your actions yet instead we receive a blanket statement of pure and utter damage control that insults more than it assures or fixes. Luckily I can go without your latest plug and play ponzi scheme toy as I was merely planning to rip out the internals and replace it with something worth more than seeing Reggie get fisted by Miyamoto like a Rarsberry pi with a 8bitdo NES30 Pro but many other real Nintendo fans don't see your products like I do and will genuinely have to go without this Christmas just so NOJ can grind down consumers and fans with artificial scarcity tactics. I wouldn't be surprised at this point if Nintendo was secretly operating as 90% of the scalpers out there. I thank god every day for allowing me to depart from the Global Nintendo Scam, I was knee deep and it's not easy letting go of your childhood and the safety and comfort it provides but one day you just have to wipe Reggie's semen out of your eyes and say enough is enough. I deserve better, you deserve better, we demand Miyamoto fist Reggies ass on live television every time he lies about the SNES Mini situation! Nothing more, nothing less.

I wanted a NES Classic so bad but could never find one. And $200 bucks for only 30 old games, just haven't been able to bring myself to do it. Hopefully this is true and SNES Classic is easier to find.

I don't believe a word of it

as long i get a classic snes controller that i could play on the wii.

Why haven't the board members voted Reggie Fils-Aime out... the stock holders couldn't easilly be making way more money if someone else was in control

People can beeitch about scalpers, but people buying those sclapers items are just as bad and contributing to industry of scalping products.

Anyone think there is one old Japanese guy in a shop somewhere making all the Nintendo units?

Queue the "just get a retropie" comments.

"Baby, I'd stop hitting you if you'd quit running away." -Nintendo

"You shouldn't have to pay more than $79.99". Yeah right, in Sweden the price is 1599 kr (which is about 200$) at every store. NES Classic was however normally priced (but impossible to buy). The company that is in charge of the import most likely takes advantage of the situation and put some extra money in their pockets. Most likeley it will be cheaper to buy from scalpers from other countries than directly from a store...

Yeah cause producing 35 is 'dramatically more' than the 10 they made of the NES classic.

Lol! PR spin job! If their take is we didn't know the NES Classic was going to be popular, why are you even in business Nintendo? You seriously don't know your legacy or your industry? I'm just a video game collector, fan, hobbyist, enthusiastic, etc; from the comments I saw online I KNEW it was going to be a hit, it was the GD NES. The system that not only saved gaming but elevated it. It's such a ridiculous stance they have, I don't work for a billion dollar company but why can I see what they couldn't? Don't these companies supposedly hire people to monitor the internet?

Ninendo saying won't sale that why not enough. That liar coming from ninendo agian and agian and they worst than MS. Don't care about there fans.

Yeah well all Nintendo does is spew bullshit, so I don't know what this comment actually proves. No faith in this

"You shouldn't [have to] pay more than $79.99" And yet we do because retailers are not being allocated enough stock. This is what retailers are saying. They are not being given enough stock. How is that NOT a Nintendo problem?

"Nintendo "dramatically increased" production for SNES Classic stock."

Compared to the NES classic I suppose. It's easy to manufacture 100% more of something if the original quantity was a tiny amount. See, I WANT one of these to actually play but there are people out there making SNES shells you can put a raspberry pi in for a lot less money than this. So if Nintendo doesn't want your money by allowing you to buy one legit, why not just get one of those?

This time they cant blame it on the unexpected popularity. They know it will sell like hot cakes. I wonder what excuse they will come up with?

its all good, I don't feel like I'm missing out at all.. I'll wait to play these games on Switch - the way it should be.

That means Nintendo will ship TWO SNES Classics to America! : D

Please actually be true. Hopefully all stores will limit to 1 as well.

If you didn't preorder it, expect ebay and Amazon with scalped prices your only chance. Fact, Nintendo NEVER overestimates demand, it's always underestimated...

Why haven't there been more preorders then?

I want to be somewhat charitable and say that I can see why they might not have understood just how popular the NES Classic was going to be. I mean, the Big Box Store I work at had the Sega Genesis and Atari versions pretty readily available a lot of the time, they weren't moving much at all, so Nintendo might have assumed that the NES Classic would perform roughly the same. HOWEVER, that doesn't excuse how they did a few other things. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.

I'll believe it when I see them in stores. But Reggie says nothing, not a peep or one word about how Gamestop/ThinkGeek is selling their preorders for over MSRP of 79.99 but tells us not to resort to eBay bidding...