@Slash_out: not a conspiracy, well established business model. Jim Sterling has a great walk through of why, which boils down to the fact that Nintendo treats electronics like toys, and toy makers subsist on undersupply to build excitement for their products.
Food products will do this as well, come out in limited supply, getting people worked up by playing to our natural tendency towards envy. It increases the likelihood that people who wouldn't buy something if there's plenty to go around will buy it when they find it. Artificial scarcity.
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