At least wait to see what else gets revealed... I mean what is there apart from Zelda?

Are you not excited to play non-remastered Skyrim on the road for 2 hours???

This shouldn't be surprising. Nintendo has the mentality of a toy company and because of this they deliberately don't meet the consumers demand and create artificial scarcity. This was seen quiet a bit with the wii, amiibos, and most recently the NES classic where most stores received under 10 units at a time.

I suppose with headlines of them being sold out it would create interest for people who wonders why they seem so popular.
Kind of smart actually.
Certainly better than overestimating the demand and having headlined of low percentages sold.

Quote from: Velox on January 13, 2017, 05:39:31 AM

Quote from: LC on January 13, 2017, 05:35:06 AM

This shouldn't be surprising. Nintendo has the mentality of a toy company and because of this they deliberately don't meet the consumers demand and create artificial scarcity. This was seen quiet a bit with the wii, amiibos, and most recently the NES classic where most stores received under 10 units at a time.

I suppose with headlines of them being sold out it would create interest for people who wonders why they seem so popular.
Kind of smart actually.
Certainly better than overestimating the demand and having headlined of low percentages sold.

They did the same shit for the Nintendo Classic - all stores ran out of the consoles and scumbags were selling it for almost 1k on Ebay and other sites like that. This strategy did not work out for them with N64 because the Playstation was in stock and it sold a fuck ton. Its just Nintendo being Nintendo.

I'm not defending their behavior, just saying it's smart from a business standpoint. The main function of companies is to make money, after all.

edit: somehow this comment got an edit from another comment, what the fuck?

Did the system sell out due to a lot of buyers or is it simply because Nintendo didn't stock enough systems for demand?

High demand + purposely low supply.
They KNEW there will be demand for the system since the Ninkids were playing on basically Tiger Electronics wrist-watch games and now Nintendo is coming out with a PS1. Of course they will want to jump on the new hardware.

I can finally play as Josuke

At least we're seeing a major franchise title on launch this time in Zelda, even if it is just a glorified Wii-U game.

The Wii-U was completely barren aside from BC and the eShop until 2014.

Quote from: FatherlyNick on January 13, 2017, 06:06:07 AM

Quote from: Velox on January 13, 2017, 05:39:31 AM

Quote from: LC on January 13, 2017, 05:35:06 AM

This shouldn't be surprising. Nintendo has the mentality of a toy company and because of this they deliberately don't meet the consumers demand and create artificial scarcity. This was seen quiet a bit with the wii, amiibos, and most recently the NES classic where most stores received under 10 units at a time.

I suppose with headlines of them being sold out it would create interest for people who wonders why they seem so popular.
Kind of smart actually.
Certainly better than overestimating the demand and having headlined of low percentages sold.

They did the same shit for the Nintendo Classic - all stores ran out of the consoles and scumbags were selling it for almost 1k on Ebay and other sites like that. This strategy did not work out for them with N64 because the Playstation was in stock and it sold a fuck ton. Its just Nintendo being Nintendo.

I'm not defending their behavior, just saying it's smart from a business standpoint. The main function of companies is to make money, after all.

edit: somehow this comment got an edit from another comment, what the fuck?

Is it though? In the end, all you're really doing is making people wait. I can see this work if you expect low sales but this is not why Nintendo is doing it (I'm sure the Swap will sell well). Scumbags will once again sell it on ebay for 3k % profit.

Quote from: Velox on January 13, 2017, 06:10:06 AM

Quote from: FatherlyNick on January 13, 2017, 06:06:07 AM

Quote from: Velox on January 13, 2017, 05:39:31 AM

Quote from: LC on January 13, 2017, 05:35:06 AM

This shouldn't be surprising. Nintendo has the mentality of a toy company and because of this they deliberately don't meet the consumers demand and create artificial scarcity. This was seen quiet a bit with the wii, amiibos, and most recently the NES classic where most stores received under 10 units at a time.

I suppose with headlines of them being sold out it would create interest for people who wonders why they seem so popular.
Kind of smart actually.
Certainly better than overestimating the demand and having headlined of low percentages sold.

They did the same shit for the Nintendo Classic - all stores ran out of the consoles and scumbags were selling it for almost 1k on Ebay and other sites like that. This strategy did not work out for them with N64 because the Playstation was in stock and it sold a fuck ton. Its just Nintendo being Nintendo.

I'm not defending their behavior, just saying it's smart from a business standpoint. The main function of companies is to make money, after all.

edit: somehow this comment got an edit from another comment, what the fuck?

Is it though? In the end, all you're really doing is making people wait. I can see this work if you expect low sales but this is not why Nintendo is doing it (I'm sure the Swap will sell well). Scumbags will once again sell it on ebay for 3k % profit.

But it's better (for Nintendo, not us) than risking higher amounts of units shipped, if it would mean that shelfs would be full with much less demand than supply. By doing this they're artificially driving up the experienced value.

Still a scummy practice though.

I mean, the gimmicks of this console are good: they're neat and practical, but not intrusive.  You can ignore them and devs don't need to build around them.  I think motion controls and stupid controllers worked once really well, but held the company back long-term.

The console seems nice and has a lot of potential.  It'd be amazing to see Nintendo go back to the Gamecube golden-era, but that's provided they invest in their devs.


As far as paid online goes, no thanks and if it's of the same quality, then lol what a scam.

Looked more into it

This honestly looks really bad

I wonder what verb thinks of the paid online :^)

Looked more into it

This honestly looks really bad

Answer my question, smelly boy!

I wonder what verb thinks of the paid online :^)

Probably slit his own throat by now