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Zeus posted...

And every time it's been brought up, I ask for evidence suggesting that it's being done as a deliberate marketing decision rather than merely ensuring that all of the units get sold.

To be fair, I'm willing to accept that it's potentially just a side-effect of them either not even remotely understanding or giving a shit about the marketplace outside of Japan itself - a lot of decisions they make feel like they're specifically targeted at Japanese consumers, and that their attitude is more akin to assuming Westerners should be glad they're allowed to buy the product at all.

Things like street pass or the way they're running voice chat on the Switch through phones feels like their entire design philosophy revolves around the Japanese infrastructure and market, and that they pay very little attention to what the Western audience actually wants, or what works within their demographics.

In that sense, I can easily see shorting NES/SNES Classics and other things as not being a deliberate marketing strategy to force artificial scarcity and thus increase demand and price spikes (though that's absolutely the result regardless of their intentions or lack thereof), as much as the inevitable result of not giving a shit (which is not an improvement). In that scenario, they just make sure they've got enough stock to satisfy the core demographic in Japan, then enough to throw the scraps to everyone else.


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