It's time to admit that Nintendo is a shit company that

>>382256867
>Implying any company gives a shit about people
They care about money
Don't act like Nintendo is the only corporate asshole around

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>>382257052
No other gaming company definitely shorts the supply of their products

These pieces of shit are made in far greater number than the NES Mini. You can walk into a dozen different stores and find one without problem. They make a new one every year since 2004

There's no excusing Nintendo's actions

Nintendo is a shit company

>>382256867
I don't get this artificial scarcity meme. Nintendo doesn't make money by NOT selling a product. They don't make money off of scalpers reselling at higher prices. They gain nothing out of understocking their products but backlash.

>Raises the exposure level of their other products
So the NES Classic being understocked was just a ploy so they can get more people to jump for SNES classics, a product they also understocked? This makes no fucking sense at all.

You have to be an idiot to believe that this is some conspiracy rather than nintendo being incompetent, especially based off of their recent track record.

>>382256867
Cry some while you think about Nintendo having the two most sought after consoles Christmas. Imagine all the money they'll make. Glorious. I shall bathe in your tears.

Is Earthbound uncensored?

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>>382257392
>Nintendo is a shit company

Actually seething.

>>382257403
You don't get it because honestly you're not very bright. You can't even put the 2 and 2 together in your own post

>they don't make money by not selling a product

Then why wouldn't they make enough to meet demand? There obviously must be some other financial benefit, which is clearly explained in the op

Now you see why you're stupid

Shit, you don't even know his ideas works or how ridiculously costly advertising is

>>382257392
Maybe because Atari has literally no other consoles to sell?
Meanwhile Nintendo has the 3DS line and the Switch to worry about, why spend so much time and money producing a $60 rom box for the masses when you can sell a $300 console and $60 games?

>>382256867
Nintendo are retarded for not making more, but it's not their fault when jews go hard on scalping

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>>382257247
Ayo hol up...

https://boards.fireden.net/v/search/filename/C2BsvP3VQAABOKn.jpg/page/1/

>>382257879
Pathetic excuse

Those consoles are made by AtGames and they make dozens of products. Far more than Nintendo

>>382257993
Literally never heard of them, meanwhile Nintendo is one of the top videogame companies producing their own games and consoles
Not just shitting out the same emulator year after year
Seems like you're the retarded one who doesn't realize that Nintendo has bigger fish to fry

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>>382257956
I'm not even surprised about shit like that at this point. All I want to know is if that colossal faggot is doing it at every chance to everyone or just a retarded ninten drone.

Lets not forget how many people die getting a nintendo product (a fucking childrens company) and how many people get pissed off when they cant get one.

>>382257873
>Then why wouldn't they make enough to meet demand?
Because Nintendo is incompetent. You know the NES classic was fucking discontinued right?

>There obviously must be some other financial benefit, which is clearly explained in the op
Are you retarded? ALL of their recent products have been understocked. Amiibos, the Switch, the NES classic, the SNES classic. How would advertising help them meet consumer demand? Getting more people to want your products does not help you if they don't actually make enough for people to buy. Are you this stupid?

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>>382256867
Don't know if it's been mentioned, but why would anyone buy this when you can just emulate for free. Pretty sure I'm the first person to mention this. And here's a bonus one: has anyone heard of Raspberry Pi? You can load full romsets from many retro systems onto an SD card. Just wanted to pop in here and make sure you guys are all aware of these points. Haven't seen any of them posted yet. To summarize: you can emulate all these games for free. Just a reminder in case anyone was unaware.

Peace.

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>>382258379
Funny thing is >>382257247
this fag got his thread deleted not so long ago, and here is again false flagging.

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>>382256867

>Nintendo hates you, but they're grateful for the free PR.

Speaking of which...

>>382258379
It's impossible to tell if someone's a drone or just baiting, but what's even worse is that people actually think they're all just drones
I'm astounded that people who browse 4chan take posts on face value

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>>382258434
Somebody on a chinese image board is trying to tell a company, who been successfully trading for over 100 years, how to do business.

>>382258434
>ALL of their recent products have been understocked.

They've been doing this since the 80s and across several management teams. That's why people don't believe it's a mistake anymore. You can fuck up, once, twice, three times the same way, but by the tenth, fifteenth, twentieth time, no, you are doing it intentionally now.

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>>382256867
N-Nintendo doesn't love me

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>>382256867
ALL OF GAMING CULTURE IS SHIT

CONSOLE WARS ARE JUST A PLOY FOR DEVELOPERS TO SAVE MONEY INSTEAD OF PORTING TO OTHER PLATFORMS

THEY ARE FORCING YOU TO BUY A PLATFORM JUST BECAUSE OF ONE GAME.

>>382259227
They're intentionally hurting their own profits? Nintendo only makes money by satisfying demand for a good or service. If they are not doing that they are not making money. I don't think Wii shortages in holiday 2006 is comparable with any of their recent shortages. Even the ps3 had shortages at launch.

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Post a smug face if you have a pre order

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>>382259363
N-Nintendo just wants my money?

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>>382259773
i have 2

>>382259383
there should only be one console

>>382259724
It's probably because of razor thin profit margins. If it doesn't sell enough, then it's a huge loss for Nintendo. They can't absorb losses as well as MS or Sony, whose game divisions are backed up by megacorps.
Considering how poorly the Wii U did, I'm not surprised they're being very careful with hardware right now

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>>382260050

My smug face IS my pre-order

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>>382260252

> tfw yours was £10 less

>>382260092
>>382260092
>Considering how poorly the Wii U did, I'm not surprised they're being very careful with hardware right now
I don't disagree with this. It's just wrong to assume that they're engaged in some conspiracy to garner hype for products they aren't selling rather than a more reasonable conclusion that they don't want a repeat of when they manufactured too many Wii U's or that they are really just inept.

>>382259724
They aren't hurting their own profits, they are maximizing supply performance while also generating huge free publicity around their products being massively in demand, which is something that a company would willingly pay hundreds of millions of dollars to have.

If they were honestly interested in actually meeting demand they would do what other companies do, which is ship according to a long stretch preorder period, not off a set value determined way ahead of the time.

>>382260617
>they don't want a repeat of when they manufactured too many Wii U's
What's the excuse for the thirty times they did this before the wii u even existed?

Most of the games are on NEW Nintendo 3DS™ virtual console. You don't even need this thing.

>>382260798

Call me back when FFVI and Secret of Mana are on the 3DS

>>382260252
wtf they cost £136 here.

>>382256867
Have you thought that maybe it's supposed to be a small limited edition item and not something they plan on mass-producing?
Companies do it all the time and no one cares but I guess because Nintendo is doing it now people do.

>>382256867
I watch some Nintendo centric YouTubers and they all admit to having some of their videos taken down, or copyright strikes from Nintendo themselves.

This is literally the same company who said people get excited about every time they play games. I mean I own a Switch and love it to death, but Nintendo themselves is pretty garbage. Just give me good games and I don't care, but their business practices are pretty terrible.

>>382260991
They are, on a modded new 3ds.

>>382257403
But wat if nintendo was the scalpers???

>>382257392
>No other gaming company definitely shorts the supply of their products
Xbox 360 and PS2 memory cards.

>>382261150

And I could just buy a rasberry pi instead of a Mini SNES so the whole point is moot

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>>382259383
PERSONA 5 IS ON A FUCKIN PS3

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>>382259773
I have about 15 on pre-order from 8 different websites.

EAT SHIT FAGGOTS LOL NINTENDO DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOU.

>>382260050
Fuck no, you' ve totally fucked it

Not one console, but 3rd PARTY GAMES SHOULD BE ON EVERY CONSOLE IF THEY CAN

They mostly can, they choose to lie to you.

>>382261245
You could have done that from the start, why even bicker over being able to do it or not on the 3ds then?

Both of you are arguing that the snes mini is pointless.

>>382261051

http://www.argos.co.uk/product/7156627

>>382256867
Has the US even opened pre-orders yet? I was doing research, and it seems to me Best Buy hasn't launched pre-orders yet, Amazon won't do them at all, and Gamestop and TRU don't even have webpages up yet.
I have my e-mail alerts all set, but Best Buy hasn't sent me jack yet about the product opening.

>>382256867
Just pirate them all. Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, they all deserve it.

>>382261451
>http://www.argos.co.uk/product/7156627
I live in Norway. I don't get why it costs so much here.

>>382260685
Maximizing supply performance doesn't necessarily mean you're making more money. They could sell one Switch and its supply performance would be maximized since at least one person will buy it, but that doesn't mean they're making anymore money than they would be if they sold more. And if they were really just working off a preset supply they could/would increase the price dramatically because people would end up buying all of their stock anyways. Nintendo makes nothing off of scalpers reselling for 5x the original price.

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>>382256867
>paying for an emulator box
>paying 500 DOLLARS for an emulator box
>in 2017

Anyone who actually buys one is a literal toddler with a tiny brain.

>>382257556
No.

https://tcrf.net/EarthBound/Regional_Differences

Friendly reminder that le artificial scarcity meme is unbelievably stupid when the company is literally throwing money away on air freight and making face-losing public apologies in Asia. Also that there is no evidence whatsoever that deliberately withholding stock benefits a business other than in a fad environment, which is not applicable to products meant to be sold over a number of years.

>>382260050
Yes, and only one Reich.

>>382261728
Stop being such a faggot with the Wojak spamming.

>>382261728
I'll buy one in preorder
If not I don't care.

>>382261712
It means they guarantee sellthrough while also maintaining that image with consumers that nintendo shit is super hot and if you see it in a store you NEED to buy it cause you might not see it again outside of scalpers. That's all they care about.

It's not like nintendo has EVER been about properly leveraging their IPs for maximum profit anyway.

>>382261619
>I live in Norway. I don't get why it costs so much here.

> Norway is one of the most heavily taxed countries in the world with a total tax burden of roughly 45% of GDP

>>382261208
Never had a problem finding ps2 memory cards and I got one the year it came out. I had like 4 mem cards for it within 6 months.

xbox 360 memory cards...why? it had a harddrive on it.

>>382261849
>when the company is literally throwing money away on air freight
The only reason they did it was to create headlines.

The only reason they do anything is to create headlines.

The entire purpose of the NES and SNES classics are to sell out, create "This Nintendo shit is so popular" headlines, and advertise their brand.

Yes, they could make more money on the NES and SNES classic products specifically if they supplied more of them, but profitting off of them is not the point of their existence. They solely exist to advertise for the Nintendo brand, so more people buy a Switch this holiday when they stop restricting the supply momentarily for holiday season sales.

>>382256867
>because artificial scarcity and fake shortages benefit the company more than selling this little plastic box.

it doesn't though. they just bend the knee to some retarded jap stockholders who think throwing coins in a plane engine is for good luck.

>>382256867
They don't want to have a warehouse full of them. Once interest dies off these become $10 units filling up storage which is a disaster. Nintendo is playing it safe, better to have limited supplies while pissing off some people and manufacture until they pile up in stores.

Smart.

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>>382256867
>No AC adapter
>Controllers that you can't use with anything else
>Overpriced even without scalps
At least the best Zelda and best Megaman is on it.

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>>382262438
>Not making enough to satisfy pre-orders
Sure, it's all about them being afraid of overproduction and not about pointing people to the Switch when mom is trying to buy one for their kid and can't get a mini.

>>382262312
A 1000 quality views is only worth about a dollar. There was probably a profit of $30 or more on the NES mini. Let's just throw out a random number of 1 million units they shorted by. (was probably much more). You really think they got 30 BILLION quality advertising impressions from that stunt ?

>>382262312
Holiday season is when consoles are mostly sold out. Especially when they're released at the holiday seasons. People literally got killed trying to get a PS3 at launch. How are they withholding stock for a season where they still have shortages? And according to your logic, any shortage is just a mass conspiracy and has nothing to do with production of hardware, so Nintendo withholds stock for the holiday season so they can withhold more stock so they can withhold more stock for the next holiday season.

>he makes this thread every day
>if he really cared this much he could just download the roms online
>instead he wastes his time shitposting because he can't buy one to resell
At least post the switch instead if you're going to whine about it

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>>382262438
Please tell me of a time when ANY first-party Nintendo product (hardware or software) in the last 20 years had backsupply of product piling up in shelves and idling in warehouses.

>>382262796
Your math is off.

>>382257403
Considering that Nintendo has also released some of their Amiibo in limited quantities, motivating people to scalp, leads me to believe that Nintendo is making a coordinated effort to hype their products by releasing them in limited numbers.

>>382256867
>blaming Nintendo
>not faggot scalpers
That's like blaming the restaurant for not getting your stake because one guy bought the entire supply of stake.
Can you imagine being as retarded as OP? I certainly can't.

>>382262796
Once you consider licensing for 3rd party games, I would guess there's little to no money in the classic editions, at least for Nintendo. You think Nintendo gets $60 for starters, which is retarded. Retailers take 30% cut so you're down to $40, then factor in manufacturing, distribution and supply chain, etc etc, and you're down to about $10 per unit, which probably goes to directly to the 3rd party games they licensed. Some pretty big names too like Final Fantasy, those won't come free

They're nothing but advertising. Just like the mobile apps. Nintendo isn't making money out of those, they're just advertisements.

>30 BILLION
What?

>>382262831
No, I'm saying Nintendo is withholding stock today (and the last 4 months) so that they will have less shortages during the holiday season. That way, people see "That nintendo device that's been sold out for 6 months" and they jump on it without thinking. The shortages will begin again as soon as the holiday season ends

Got it at 50€ on amazon.fr

>>382262489

>that .gif

What's this, Anon?

>>382256867
>est. Delivery date jun-jul
>releases september

?

>>382256867
>All of these games available on the Wii virtual console

>>382263591

costs less to buy the mini than all the games virtually

... well, it did

Where are all the paid shills to jump in? They seem to have disappeared from when this thing was first announced.

>>382256867
nintendo feels no emotions towards me

>>382256867
Was thinking about this today, but I would say the release of the amibo marks the true downfall of Nintendo.

Every single company just sees their clients as moneybags.

And what do I care if they hate me? No one is forcing me to buy it

>>382256867
genuinely curious what would happen if sony did this with the playstation

>>382256867
>that they could never normally afford.
Nintendo can operate at a loss for a decade and still be in business

>>382264795
I doubt there's even a market, at least for the original PlayStation. The bet vast majority of people feel more nostalgic for the PS2,

>>382256867
Nintendo's great just for triggering poorfags :)

>>382256867
It's time to admit that you have a problem
https://boards.fireden.net/v/search/image/UsTa9JIroic9koGOc9Zikw/

>>382256867
>Nintendo is a shitty company who hates you, because they don't make enough units for you to buy

I wonder why people get so insanely upset that they may not be able to buy this kind of stuff.
Don't get me wrong: I really like the concept of it and I want one, but you know what I'll do if I don't get one?
Shrug it off, say "that's a pity" and move on with my life. If I want to play those games, I'll either buy them on the Virtual Console or emulate them.

This kind of baby tantrum-like reaction is pathetic, and it's baffling that so many people actually go along with it, as if Nintendo was rationing insulin to diabetic people or something like that. They didn't invent limited edition merchandise, you know? If you get this upset for not having your toy the problem's with you, not Nintendo.

everybody knows japanese are even worse than jews, so?

>>382263013
Wii U

>>382265785
shut up pol

>>382265862
>pol
Never visited /pol/

Would there be any point in them making an N64 version?

>>382262312
>"This Nintendo shit is so popular" headlines
Or, y'know, just make some money because that's what companies do.

>>382265932
you have to go back :)

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>>382261320
I dont believe you

OP is right on all accounts. Nintenbros on sewer side wash

>>382266257
weaboo plz
go watch some low-quality japan animation and play some low-quality vn

>>382256867
>I am entitled to this product a company is making to sell to people
Do you cucks hear yourselves?

>>382265934
It's probably coming some time in the future. They have enough first-party games to release one, even without Rare's IPs.
>Super Mario 64
>Ocarina of Time
>Majora's Mask
>F-Zero X
>Paper Mario
>Super Smash Bros
>Star Fox 64
>Sin & Punishment
>Pokemon Snap
>Pokemon Stadium 2
>Mario Kart 64
>Kirby 64 (obligatory filler)
>Mario Tennis (obligatory filler)
>1080 Snowboarding (obligatory filler)
>Wave Race 64 (obligatory filler)

The aritificial shortage meme nintendo is pulling reminds me of the Hillary fans who said her ralleys were intentionally "strategically small".

I wouldnt mind getting one of these but for whatever dumbass reason Nintendo intentionally shorts supplies then completely discontinues a popular product for #reasons. Yes, theyre a shit company and have been dead to me since the Wii. I hope they go down in flames for their shitty business practices and your switch becomes a 300 dollar paper weight in a year.

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>>382265860
The Wii U's price never dropped, ever. I hope you aren't >>382262438 because the Wii U never got bargain bin'd like that anon described.

Nintendo fans are the battered women of the gaming industry. Kinda feel sorry for them.

Fake shortages are real and anyone wi says otherwise is just a shit eating fanboy making excuses for a shit company. This stuff has been going on since the 80's with the Cabbage Patch Dolls. Stop being stupid millennial idiots.

>>382257392
>No other gaming company definitely shorts the supply of their products
Neither does Nintendo

>>382257403
>rather than nintendo being incompetent
And its not incompetence either, they make what they know they will sell. This is how they've ALWAYS done business. Sometimes they don't move the numbers as they thought they would, like the Virtual Boy and Wii U.

Spending more time and money, contracting more factories and getting more materials to make more ROM boxes is likely not as profitable as making their actual game consoles. Everyone just assumes that they can magically make more and it'll net them millions of dollars. This was always intended to be something not available long-term.

>>382257420
So you're smug over money that's being made that's not going to you? I wish I could be as retarded as you.

>>382266778
>The Wii U's price never dropped, ever
The "deluxe" model dropped from $350 to $300, genius.

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>>382256867
How reliable is the emulation on a Raspberry Pie 3 for Dreamcast?

Mostly interested in:
Grandia 2
Ikaruga
Street Fighter Alpa 3

>>382257403
>So the NES Classic being understocked was just a ploy so they can get more people to jump for SNES classics
No. They say
>Hey, we don't have the NES Classic but we do have the Switch, which will have all the games it has plus the new ones.

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>>382259168
>I'm smug about a company that I have no business relation to

>>382267409
The NES Classic's appeal is the novelty that feeds on nostalgia from 30+ year olds, the Switch won't satisfy that. At the end of the day you can literally just download an emulator and play every one of those games and more in seconds.

>>382257392
Or think about it rationally and from a business point of view, it is better to under-produce units and sell them all than to overproduce units and have them sitting on the shelves. Sure it sucks if you weren't one of the people to get what you want but why would a company produce more units than the amount they were sure that they could sell.

>>382257403
>Wait a moment, we're selling this shit for 70$/€ and it has 30 NES games we usually sell on the Wii, WiiU, 3DS (soon Switch) eshop for 3-5$/€? WE'RE LOSING MONEY!

>>382267693
>The NES Classic's appeal is the novelty that feeds on nostalgia from 30+ year olds, the Switch won't satisfy that.
I never said they were smart.

*yawn*

>>382267857
>Consoles and other products selling out
>No explanation beyond "lol artifishul scarcity XD"
>Not smart

>>382267724
>why would a company produce more units than the amount they were sure that they could sell.
He thinks this because his first console was an Xbox 360 and he thinks western publishers overproducing AAA multiplats to the point at which copies hit bargain bins in months due to lack of interest and lots of excess/secondhand stock is normal.

>>382267247
Wow, a way overpriced product dropped in price! So did the 3DS! Now where are the $50 Wii Us that were implied with this original chain?

Thought so!

>>382268570
Never said that, sweetie, the console did in fact get one price drop.

>>382268671
>sweetieposting
You need to go back

>>382266778
In case you forgot, stores had a lot of Wii Us still out on the floor. Many of which decided to bundle the system or simply slash the price by $20-50. Nintendo simply doesn't want to hold onto the supply like before and so they manufacture what they predict will be perfect amount. The amount of people who preorders doesn't matter if the factory(s) in china can only produce so much. In the end they forgot nostalgia sells for the NES and will again for SNES.

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>>382268756
>Being wrong and then back pedaling
You need to stop being wrong, sweetie.

>>382256867
Has this thing even gone up for pre-order? If not, then who cares what a potential scalper is doing? They might not even be able to get one.

>>382256867
>scalpers hate you
>nintendo hates you
sonygras permasalt because there will never be a ps1 mini

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Or I can boot up a SNES emulator and play all of the titles plus 100's more. Even Starfox 2.

>>382259975
Who is this? Is this that valk drive chick? looks kinda like her.

>>382257403
They've been doing it since 1985 laddie

Is scalping endemic in America or something because I never see it anywhere else

>>382269689
Sure they have, sweetie. Sure they have.

>>382256867

what? it's already out?

i haven't received any best buy or amazon notifications it even went up

>>382269403
>scalpers hate you
Not always, I've talked a few scalpers into lowering their price from $100 over the normal price, to just $5.
One I guilt tripped, but still.

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>>382257392

>>382263862
>He's a boy scout who dislikes piracy

I really wanted a NES classic because I didn't grow up with it, the SNES was my first console. I've all ready played the shit out of all the titles on the SNES mini. I was going to buy one for my nephew and I to enjoy together but no Nintendo didn't make enough. 60 dollars is reasonable not 250 no way in hell my dude.

Look nintendo is a cut above the rest so it's expected that you have to go the extra mile in order to play their games. They've been conquering Japan, America, and Europe Since the 8 Bit era. nintendo makes the quintessential videogames they made the very definition of viceogames.

It's like complaining that you have to put in the extra effort to get authentic cold press coffee, it's higher fucking quality compared to the shit they sell at Dunkin Donuts.

Nintendo games take more effort to get and more effort to play because they are just simply better games.

>>382268391
If theres this many people angry about not getting one, then they didn't produce enough and lost potential sales.

>>382269793
You just don't notice it. Whenever there are limited edition whatevers, there are scalpers.

>>382269508
Yeah that's what I do

>>382270140
wow ur so hardcore

>>382257392
Mate, every single monopolistic company shorts their sales.

>>382256867
I totally agree OP, speaking as someone who actually wants the SNES mini.

Good luck getting /v/ to accept it though.

>>382256867
its a company i never wanted them to care about anyone stop

being a corporate cock suck

>>382268391
>western publishers
Sony produces enough PS4 consoles to satisfy their base, and Nintendo is the only Japanese game company that I've had trpuble with when buying their products.

>>382256867
Blah blah blah blah blah fuck you I don't care Nintendo still holds the record for best games

If you want some shitty novelty limited edition SNES you probably have the disposable income to buy a scalped one

>>382270163
Potential sales is not an economic concept.

They produce the number where marginal revenue is maximized. You see, companies are ranked not only on how much they sell, but also on how efficiently they allocate their resources. Doubling the production of SNES classics would not double the profits due to increased production costs due to price of initial investment, ballooning of exit costs and due to time constraints.

>>382262312
I would agree but there were no NES minis to be found the christmas of launch year so...

>>382262489
>Controllers that you can't use with anything else
they're classic controllers shaped like NES, they work with wiimotes.

Artificial scarcity only works if it's actually just the *illusion* of scarcity.

If the item is actually scarce, as in you don't produce enough supply to meet the demand at the price you set, then you've just cucked yourself out of profit.

The best moneymakers are things that people think are going to be rare or collectable, but actually are easily obtainable. Amiibos are an example of this. The (S)NES minis are not.

I don't think Nintendo is purposely trying to cause a shortage of supply. I think there's something going wrong with their supply chain such that they physically can't make enough to meet demand.

>>382257392
Yeah but who wants to play fucking atari 2600 games? They were fucking monstrous and we only enjoyed them because there was nothing else.

>>382256867
You can easily emulate every game on that system. Why do you care about the SNES mini?

>>382257403
>>382261849
>>382271356

Nike regularly employs the "artificial scarictiy strategy" basically it's free advertising

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/11/19/365010888/episode-584-what-the-lebron

>>382271356
>I think there's something going wrong with their supply chain such that they physically can't make enough to meet demand.

It uses basic components. If there was something wrong they'd work to fix it, instead of just moving from nes to snes and keeping the supply low. It's basically marketing, that's all. Internal studies reached the conclusion the buzz created by shortage creates higher profit in the long term than a higher number of sales on the short term. Once their cycle of mini consoles is done, they'll probably just redo it and sell even more anyway.

>>382257403
This.

>>382263201
>eads me to believe that Nintendo is making a coordinated effort to hype their products by releasing them in limited numbers.

But that hype doesn't help them if they don't have any fucking stock to sell to profit off that hype

>>382270545
>conveniently forgets the ps4 was sold out for months after it dropped

cool :)

>>382271554
I want casuals to leave /v/ already, Defender, Joust and HERO are classics.

>>382263453
It's nothing. It's some SpeedoSausage youtube video about kill-la-kill and it sucks

>>382256867
Fuck you, faggot, what do you have against Nintendo?

Every FUCKING DAY you people go out looking for ANY possible chink in Nintendo's armor and then make a huge fucking deal about it with these shit post ass threads and... personally... I am sick of it.

This has gotten far past the point of typical new-fagging, e-celeb endorsing, sony-pony infested nu/v/... no... this is something far worse.

I am beginning to believe that actual paid shills have made /v/ their camping ground and because people have caught on to the direct "will you buy X, /v/"? threads, you decided to go a different route.

Instead of making a front to endorse your own company up front you choose to attack the competition and then, in the middle of it all, go out of your way to say that Y is better than X because blah blah BLAH.

I have been here for a decade and these past couple years have gone from anons praising Nintendo to spitting at them for anything they do, good or bad.

I won't have it. Call me a fanboy, but in the end at least I am loyal to a company that has provided me quality entertainment for years when nobody else did.

Fuck you, anon, and your false flagging bull shit thread.

Nintendo loves me and they love you, at least more than any other gaming company out there right now, so stop biting the hand that feeds you gift-horse riding fuck head.

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>>382256867
I can sympathize with Nintendo. If my fanboys acted like the people around here did, I'd hate them too. I'd take their money, sure, but I'd still hate them all the same.

>>382263453
speedosausage, interesting style but awful jokes

Anyone who got a preorder and doesn't immediately sell it is just as stupid as the peopld buying these things for $300+. Congratulations, you played yourself.

>>382256867
>they don't because artificial scarcity and fake shortages benefit the company more than selling this little plastic box.

How so? They don't make more on the secondary market when the scarcity brings up the value. There are no additions to the product to profit from. How does having a lower supply of something that's in demand profit you more than meeting that demand when the price is set by you and it's unchanging?

>>382274136
Is anyone ACTUALLY buying this junk for 300 bucks? I might just sell mine if so, I was going to gift it to a friend who loves old nintendo games but fuck him

>>382267161
>neither does Nintendo
Bwahahahahaha!!!

This is what Nintendo fanboys actually believe.

>>382256867

There will be a bunch more before xmas along with the switch. They are just testing for demand in case it did in fact flop.

A 60 second ad spot in the Los Angeles market alone can cost up to 10 million dollars.

Meanwhile the press that Nintendo gets from the shortage hysteria and hype surrounding this product is free. It's also far more wide reaching than any single commercial. That's the trade off here. That's why they do it. Nintendo doesn't just sell game boxes, they're also in the business of selling Nintendo itself

>>382274479
This is all baseless nonsense

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>>382256867
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TAKE THAT BACK RIGHT NOW, YOU HEAR ME?!

You know what's funny, every Nintendo hater is hating on the company that saved video games. So if Nintendo didn't exist, there would be no PlayStation or Xbox.

>>382275185
Wrong. They only "saved" CONSOLE gaming in NORTH AMERICA.

>nintendo hates you
how can they hate me if they let me buy 10 snes mini?
I'm going to sell them off for 500$ after a year

>>382256867
I'm baffled that there's enough of a market for this product to scalp it. I kind of assumed it'd just sit on shelves dead forever.

>>382275593
Poor quality bait.

>>382273398
They're shit.

>>382257879
That's a retarded strategy when those $300 consoles are also consistently out of stock.

>>382274861
back at ya :)

Nintendo: good, fun quality games, for all ages, and even some exclusives for mature audiences (Bayonetta 2), Re-releases of old consoles and games, DLC that only adds new content to the games, a friendly fan base, innovative, only makes new, better versions of their hand held consoles.

Sony and Microsoft: some good, fun quality games, others half baked, most games for mature audiences and teens, some DLC that adds new content, other DLC that's needed to have the full game, makes multiple versions of the same console, fan bases that consist of raging little kids and teens that call everyone out and acting tough,

All Three: Have great indie games, mostly great games in general, have big fan bases that are willing to protect their chosen favorite, all fan bases like the same thing, video games.

So if I list PS4s for 800 dollars on ebay, will anon also make a thread about how Sony hates you?

>>382276646
No one would ever buy a PS4 for $800

>>382277646
Who gives a fuck? OP is bitching about a listing for an unreleased item.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBkVLAKW-LQ

just fucking watch this

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will i get it if i pre oder it on playasia?

>Nintendo could easily make enough of these things but they don't

That's the proof right there

>>382278436
I'm not watching your YouTube video

>>382278471
Nope.

When will this "artificial scarcity" meme die?

Artificial scarcity DOES work for a certain period of time. Yes sure but not for long. They will just loose sales at this point.

So it's dumb for any company to do that.

>>382279116
It's most likely Nintendo making a certain amount and not wanting to have dead copies everywhere

What will Nintendo do when theyve run of nostalgia shit to sell? Will they just do mini snes 2.0?

>>382256867
Who gives a fuck. If you really want one that bad buy a raspberry pi and get a case that looks like NES/SNES. They're all over Amazon. You'll get a fuck load more than 30 games and you'll get them for multiple systems.

Or, you know... you could just do the same on the PC your using now, but thats beside the point.

>>382258434
>amiibos
Toys to life were flopping when Amiibos launched. If Amiibos didn't sell well they didn't want to have to dump them in a landfill.