NES Mini is back in production
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i doubt it. people will just keep whinging about the so called "artificial scarcity" that they think should never have happened in the first place regardless of Nintendo taking steps to fix the problem now.DefunctTheory said:
they'll just use "too little too late" or something along those lines as their excuse for not buying one now.
Yeah, I'm going to wait and see just how effective a measure this is. Remember when they said the SNES mini wouldn't have the same supply problems?
*cough* but to fill the mold, Nintendo's artificial scarcity is a bullshit strategy that should never have happened in the first place and it's too little too late for them to build up goodwill with me now.
(Note: I was never going to buy one of these anyway, I just find news about Nintendo amusing)
*cough* but to fill the mold, Nintendo's artificial scarcity is a bullshit strategy that should never have happened in the first place and it's too little too late for them to build up goodwill with me now.
(Note: I was never going to buy one of these anyway, I just find news about Nintendo amusing)
I suspect the reason they can 'get away' with this is because there isn't a lot of overlap between people who get upset about dumb corporate strategies and people willing to buy decade old games for the quintilionth time on a drug store level glorified cable nest maker.TrulyBritish said:
Yeah, God forbid that people end up being frustrated with Nintendo not being able to meet demand for years.Yoshi178 said:
And I'm not holding my breath on things being any better this time around.
So, 2019 will be the year when people can actually buy an SNES Classic?
I really doubt that they'd pass on the chance to pull an artificial scarcity tactic on the SNES. Even if they say they're making more, they're still counting on "unprecedented demand" (whatever that means) to keep it out of people's hands but in their minds... so that those on the fence buy next round.
I don't care too much about the NES (I may be old, but I was stuck on an Atari at the time, and the NES was a retro system by the time I finally got one) so I'm probably still going to pass.
I do want the SNES, though. It was a somewhat old system by the time I finally got one back in the day, but I've still got plenty of good memories from that system.
Though I just find it funny and sad that the similar Sega flashback system is so much more widely available but a much worse product due to poor emulation (well, assuming that the SNES Classic's emulation is on par with the NES Classic.) I'd definitely want a Genesis Classic... if it were any good.
I really doubt that they'd pass on the chance to pull an artificial scarcity tactic on the SNES. Even if they say they're making more, they're still counting on "unprecedented demand" (whatever that means) to keep it out of people's hands but in their minds... so that those on the fence buy next round.
I don't care too much about the NES (I may be old, but I was stuck on an Atari at the time, and the NES was a retro system by the time I finally got one) so I'm probably still going to pass.
I do want the SNES, though. It was a somewhat old system by the time I finally got one back in the day, but I've still got plenty of good memories from that system.
Though I just find it funny and sad that the similar Sega flashback system is so much more widely available but a much worse product due to poor emulation (well, assuming that the SNES Classic's emulation is on par with the NES Classic.) I'd definitely want a Genesis Classic... if it were any good.
This kinda proves the point about manufactured scarcity, creating demand for a novelty product by dosifying supply.TrulyBritish said:
Read what I said. I didn't say it was bad they were doing this. I said that things weren't going to be any better this time. Because Nintendo said that the SNES Classic would be better than the NES Classic, and that turned out to be a load of crap. So I have very little faith in Nintendo to handle this properly. Faith in Nintendo has been shot to hell for a lot of people, not everyone is as diehard loyal to the company as you are.Yoshi178 said:
It's kind of sad to think that this bullshit will probably pay out for Nintendo (provided that they haven't only just decided to make more due to all the angry feedback), but considering people seem to still be falling for Publisher Hype and preordering I can't say I have much faith in gamers as a consumer base.DefunctTheory said:
At least it makes a bit more sense now, seeing as they're actually producing more to sell now.Johnny Novgorod said:
how do you know it's a load of crap? the SNES mini hasn't even released yet.erttheking said:
you know for a fact that that because the SNES mini first shipment preorders sold out pretty much immediately it automatically means Nintendo was full of crap and didn't produce more SNES mini units for launch than they did with the NES mini do you? initial sales numbers of the snes mini will tell us if they were "full of crap" in that department or not. just because you missed out on preordering one of the systems in the first shipment does not mean Nintendo was giving us a "load of crap".
and Nintendo has given us a much more clear expectation this time on how long these systems will be produced for ad have already extended that production time frame even before the system launches. that's already much better than they handled the NES mini launch last year.
*Looks at the absolute clusterfuck that has been trying to pre-order a SNES Classic* Call it a hunch.Yoshi178 said:
Uh, yeah, pretty much. When someone says things are going to be different from the first time, and then things start looking exactly like the first time, faith is not strong.
I'll believe it when I see it.
alot of people want to get their hands on a popular item out of fear it will become a rarity. holy crap.erttheking said:
can't imagine why there would ever be a "clusterfuck", as you say, of people scrambling to get their preorder's in.
literally happens whenever anything popular comes out PS4 released. there was a "clusterfuck". PS4 Pro released. "clusterfuck. PS VR released "clusterfuck".
pre orders selling out fast isn't in anyway a Nintendo exclusive thing.
Not really. Just a clever angle to keep themselves looking relevant. They deliberately underproduce to make it look like they're doing really well. and to make people feel they have to rush and buy one nao!DefunctTheory said:
Honestly, it's rather sad that people keep falling for this.
Really?Yoshi178 said:
The standard PS4 maybe, and that was only in the first few months of its release. The Pro and PS VR were readily available on launch. The NES Classic is still unavailable, with the only reassurance that they're bringing out a new batch next summer. And obviously the SNES Classic is going down the same path.
Even the Switch, which is very popular right now, is easy to grab on store shelves. This is Nintendo either being woefully ignorant, incredibly incompetent, or downright sleazy.
