LogFAQs > #951887060

I'm really curious to see what happens with the price of this after 03/31. On one hand, they printed an absolute fuckton of copies - almost every Walmart I've been to since release has had stacks of copies on the shelf floor, since they can't fit them all in the main display. I've never seen anything like it. Also, you just know a ton of resellers are going to flood the market immediately after 03/31 and keep supply above demand in the short term.

This makes me think that Mario 3D All-Stars will be like the SNES Classic, where Nintendo printed so many that they weren't viable for resale until a couple years later. The key difference, though, is that Switch owners are a different breed. They're far more willing to throw crazy money at current-gen software than previous generations. Ultra Street Fighter II regularly sells for $60+ used and $80+ sealed, despite being a bare-bones budget release with a reasonably large print run. And that's just one example.

I do think Nintendo will do this "limited release" tactic regularly now, since it was obviously a big success for them and got people talking. That's bad for gamers, but as Nintendo customers, I guess we're used to that by now... >_>

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The music was thud-like.
The music was... thud-like.