Nintendo Exec on NES Classic Shortages, Nintendo Switch Supply

@Slash_out: actually the nes classic is cheap and easy to manufacture. It's a freaking raspberry pi in an nes body, nothing special at all.

The fact is had they allowed preorders and looked at market data in the months leading to its release they easily could have had enough, or during the holidays they could have had enough out. Nintendo doesn't do that though, they like "shortages" because they believe it makes the product more desirable.

@Slash_out: Not true in the slightest, they short because they have a consistent pattern for the last 30 years, including saying they couldn't make more cartridges because they couldn't get the chips, then rejecting chips given to them that independent tests verified to be of equal or better quality. Sony and Microsoft start in-earnest manufacturing 6 months before launch for precisely the reason of keeping supply as close to demand as possible.

They are a toy company in their mind, they short because they think that selling out will make your product desirable, all it does with electronics is make people's desire burn out before they get one.

That's why no one else does this, and Nintendo hurts themselves every time they do.

@wolfpup7: For what it's worth I got mine this month so they are putting them out still. That being said I only got mine because I work retail. We got 4 of them in and they sold out in like 20 minutes. Half of them were bought by associates too, me and another guy, which I do feel bad about. But in my defense my only advantage is that I'm there in the store for several hours five days a week, it went out on the floor with me not having any prior knowledge of us getting them in, I just got lucky and was on break so I was able to buy one. Still I do feel bad about it, it's pretty hard for any normal customer to get their hands on, just have to be extremely lucky and be there when we put them out on the floor.

@consolehaven: I'll probably wait until the stores have it in stock (and I don't have to fight anyone for it). It's not worth getting crazy over.

I'd never give my money to a scalper and I wouldn't support that practice. Although it doesn't seem illegal (apparently), folks purchase certain item's with the sole intention to grossly profit on a consumers inability to find said item in stock. Scalper's tend to make a ridiculous profit off bad corporate planning an the inability for consumers to deny themselves instant gratification.

@consolehaven: That's partly why they have so much money in the coffers. They don't spend stupidly like some companies, one of which I won't name that lost a collective 3 billion dollars over 10 years trying to get their Xbox division off the ground DESPITE selling 80 MILLION consoles and had investors begging them to get rid of the division.

A lot of people like to think Nintendo has this grand strategy of intentionally underproducing despite their estimates to create buzz and good PR that their products are selling out... but could it actually be that they're estimating and they're estimating wrong? Could it be that they're going online and reading feedback like "Nintendo sucks", "It's for kids", and "Why would I buy this when I can just emulate the games for free" and they have their expectations lowered for that reason? It wasn't until recently that they began losing money. Is it not within the realm of possibility that they're taking a more conservative approach to balance their finances instead of just fucking mindlessly throwing money at something? That's the other side of the argument that I never hear anybody make, and it's just as possible as the one everybody likes to parrot.

@GRTooCool: You mean the Wii or the Wii U?

They're both "must buy" if you like Nintendo's games, but obviously since the hardware's a generation old (in both cases) they didn't get much 3rd party support.

Switch is different in that it's a portable and will inherit 3DS/Vita support. It still won't be most of the same games from One/PS4, but should hopefully have pretty solid 3rd party support-seems to have just what I'd expect already announced for it. I won't be surprised if it's better support in the long run considering it'll inherent all of 3DS AND Vita's support, AND of course have all of Nintendo's support instead of half of it, AND we may see more than that too-like it won't surprise me if Bethesda only ever releases Skyrim, but it's possible developers who haven't supported portables before will do more than that.

@jinzo9988: Criminals....LOL. You must feel bad every time you jaywalk.

@jinzo9988: Calling people who emulate games from 30 years ago criminals is like calling people who litter criminals. Technically it is true, but nobody on earth is going to prosecute for it unless you shove it in their faces. If anyone really cared about getting rid of NES emulation, they would have DMCA'd it out of the search results, not let it sit on the front page.