Nintendo Exec on NES Classic Shortages, Nintendo Switch Supply

You can get an original NES for half the price of the NES: Classic.

Eat a spotted dick, Nintendo.

2 million Switches is not a lot considering we're talking a worldwide launch and no region locking. We'll see how this works out in march.

Nintendo's arrogance back in full swing. Are they really that incompetent when it comes anticipating product demand? Apparently so. Pathetic.

I haven't been looking for an NES classic too hard, but definitely can't find one. I'd buy one in a second if I found one, but they are no where to be found.

I had planned on buying two. One for me and one for my niece for Xmas. I've pretty much lost interest in buying one for my niece.

Nintendo is fucking stupid. Who the **** runs this company??? Damage control for their shit.

PC fans.... get off that computer

I just don't understand why they are doing this. I don't believe their reasons. It's just a bunch of hoo-ey if you ask me. They started pulling this crap when the Wii first came out in 2006. They make so few of them or withhold their supply for what? I don't get it. It's absolutely ridiculous. Want a NES Classic? Sorry, sold out in 1 hour. Want a Switch? Sorry sold out in an hour. Gimme a break Nintendo. Why do only YOU have this problem and Microsoft and Sony don't? You didn't use to do this. Gamecube and previous consoles were obtainable right away. What happened to your companies policies?

Here's the workaround: Nintendo just needs to quit hardware and go multiplat on their IPs.

You're welcome.

More lies. Nintendo intentionally withholding supply. They've done it before. They're doing it again.

Ever since the death of Iwata Nintendo has been going downhill. Nintendo needs a complete overhaul of corporate management including Reggie. He is blind and deaf to US customers.

People should never forget about the scalpers on eBay. This situation is at least as much their fault as it is Nintendo's, and eBay should ban the practice, if they can.

My great grandma who is 95 has a NES Classic in her room. She calls late at night asking how to beat the second stage in Ninja Gaiden. Looks like Nintendo was way off target with that 30-40 age group

If only there were some way to gauge demand before a product launches. If only it were possible to find out how many people want to buy a product by getting some of them to partially pay for it before it releases, so you can adjust your supply accordingly. And if only there were a massive network of communication devices with which people discussed their enthusiasm for a product. And if only these enthusiastic statements were somehow linked to publicly available profiles for the users of these communication devices, from which a company might be able to glean some demographic information about the people who are discussing their products. In such a world as this, Nintendo might have been able to measure demand for the NES Classic and then manufacture enough of them. But, alas, we do not live in such a world.

Nintendo comes out with a console people want and they dont have the supply for them. Nintendo, get your shit together.

They didnt predict guys like me im 50 an want it rofl..

Yeah, yeah, yeah, just make more NES classics. I'm a power nerd and i want one.

Not everyones agrees? Hell, not even the people that wants to play your games. I swear that some suits of Nintendo must think they can keep the love of their fanbase if they also cater their hatred, just like some relationships.

This Reggie guy is full for crap! He's as believable as Iraqi's former information minister!

Lies.....lies.....and more lies. The NES Classic was not meant to make money. When you look at how miserly greedy Nintendo is with their 30 year old games, the NES Classic with its 30 games at $60 is actually LOSING money for Nintendo. Nintendo put a limited number of Classics out there for only one reason.....so they could somehow be relevant and at least talked about during the holiday season. Nintendo is a master of this and could care less about their customers. That is why after being a Nintendo fanboy since the NES and being greatly disappointed in the Switch, I went out this weekend an purchased a PS4 and for the first time will sit out a Nintendo generation and play any IPs such as Zelda on my crappy Wii U.

NE'S Classic shortages have been addressed, I dont think so, I pre-ordered mine and im still waiting for Amazon to ship it to me, absolute joke.

They are impossible to find here in the UK.

Iv pre-ordered 2 switches also, one for me and one for the wife, if im lucky I might get them before Xmas.

**** you nintendo. You are either awful at market research, or intentionally create product shortages to drive up demand. Either way you have eroded my faith in your company. Switch is going to be impossible to get for months. Nintendo thinks that if they keep it as the "hot" item all the way to the 2017 holiday season it will hold steady. If i cant get a switch at launch...ill just wait for the inevitable price drop when Sony pushes the PS4pro down to 350 and the games drought on switch makes people go back to the other consoles. It happened on wii u, it happened with wii. I bought a wii at launch, by march there was nothing to play beyond shovel ware. Took until later that year for Mario Galaxy, but by then i was bored and moved on.

They love it. And I doubt they'll actually take direct action to address the shortage. It will work itself out in time and, in the meantime, they enjoy being able to say it's sold out.

I wouldn't be surprised if they hoard Nintendo Switch's in a warehouse, and let them trickle out over time. That way there can be a "shortage" of those as well.

Seems to me that people give Nintendo a pass because of the nostalgia factor. And even when they don't give Nintendo a pass, the numbers of times I've heard "I wanted to like it..." is ridiculous.

I judge each game/system on its own merit. Nothing about the Switch has me excited except for Zelda, and that's not going to make me buy the console.