@joshrmeyer: I'm sorry, there was nothing we could do. We couldn't save his sarcasm detection. Such a senseless waste.

@leeshunshin: They figured that out with the Wii and the advent of the Virtual Console. $15 for something you can get for a quarter at a flea market, also, if your system craps out you have to buy it again.

@bickle2: wew lad, that's a whole lot of tl;dr right there.

@ZIMdoom: If the last two years have taught us anything, it's that conspiracy theories are quite often true, and that the worst case scenario version often ends up being the best case.

@bickle2: Absolute mistrust of companies that use psychological manipulation techniques to sell consumers things they don't want or need at ridiculous pricing. It's a theory, if there were an easy way to prove it I'd be talking to lawyers, not commenting on a third rate games news site.

But whatevs, yo, you do you. Keep on pretending making claims of being a navy seal or whatever mean something on the internet. Maybe you should've included your LinkedIn, resume and sales figures if you wanted your comment to mean anything more than mine.

@bickle2: That's just naive.

@bickle2: Sure, but this doesn't prevent Nintendo from joining in. Say they sell half their stock at the store and the other half on ebay at a 50% markeup. They're now effectively selling the system at $375 but being praised for a $300 price point. By the time the first year is over, they actually have software to sell and third parties to get more licensing fees out of, they can start shipping more to the stores and be praised for meeting demand.

@bickle2: There's plenty of Switches (and NES Classics) on ebay if you want to shell out an extra couple hundred freedombucks for the hardware alone. I wonder what that suggests.

@joshrmeyer: Looks more like Nintendo paid WSJ for it. Gamespot is just an unwitting accomplice.

@joshrmeyer: That doesn't really prove or say anything in regards to underhanded sales tactics through alternative channels.