Current Events > So why exactly is Nintendo immune to complaints about stock and limited quantity

(+) Yeah! (+)

The Switch has low stock? Oh it's the flash memory being bought up by all the smartphone companies

The SNES sells out in seconds? Oh it's a hot item you should've been up at 4 AM to preorder

The NES Classic is discontinued? Oh it was a limited edition item you shouldn't expect it to be available readily

Meanwhile PS4 and XBone has had shortages for like a single month and that was after launch in 2013 smh
---

What are you talking about I've seen nothing BUT complaints!
---

Where have you seen anyone say these things? I only see people constantly mocking Nintendo and complaining about their artificial scarcity. If it makes you feel any better, Nintendo is in last place this gen with the Switch PLUS Wii U because of their incompetence at running a business.
---

The excuse I always hear is that Nintendo is just underestimating demand for their products, but they must have an astounding lack of business sense to underestimate the demand as consistently as they seem to be doing.
---

GamerSanta posted...

Where have you seen anyone say these things? I only see people constantly mocking Nintendo and complaining about their artificial scarcity. If it makes you feel any better, Nintendo is in last place this gen with the Switch PLUS Wii U because of their incompetence at running a business.

News articles (probably by fuckers who get review units of all Nintendo products)
Youtube tech videos
CE/Reddit

People suddenly are all "herp derp economics 101" every time too
---

Well NES/SNES mini and the Amiibos are collectibles. Collectibles create scarcity to generate interest in the next collectible as well as creating insane sales rate as soon as they're released. We already have a perception that we need to pay close attention to Nintendo products with limited quantity in terms of release because we know they'll sell out quickly. That's demand before the customers can second guess themselves or depreciation in the perception of the worth of a product over time. It's just the same logic as a price discrimination to affect demand.

Meanwhile, the Switch isn't exactly last place. It's selling out like most of its quantity on release. Nintendo already showed that they can increase production when Splatoon 2 came out and they topped the chart lol at the guy who says they're firmly last. It's just not cost effective to produce them when they're competing for parts. Except Nintendo also is known to have a billion dollars in cash. They're holding out for more software probably
---

Shut the fuck up.
---

MarioBro88 posted...

Shut the fuck up.

---

MarioBro88 posted...

Shut the fuck up.

Found the fanboy

I have a Switch too you nerd
---

Yaridovich posted...

What are you talking about I've seen nothing BUT complaints!

---

Smashingpmkns posted...

Yaridovich posted...

What are you talking about I've seen nothing BUT complaints!

This. The complaints have gotten so bad that nintedo piracy is basically at an all time high which translates to some amount of permanently lost customers.
---

legendarylemur posted...

Well NES/SNES mini and the Amiibos are collectibles. Collectibles create scarcity to generate interest in the next collectible as well as creating insane sales rate as soon as they're released. We already have a perception that we need to pay close attention to Nintendo products with limited quantity in terms of release because we know they'll sell out quickly. That's demand before the customers can second guess themselves or depreciation in the perception of the worth of a product over time. It's just the same logic as a price discrimination to affect demand.

Meanwhile, the Switch isn't exactly last place. It's selling out like most of its quantity on release. Nintendo already showed that they can increase production when Splatoon 2 came out and they topped the chart lol at the guy who says they're firmly last. It's just not cost effective to produce them when they're competing for parts. Except Nintendo also is known to have a billion dollars in cash. They're holding out for more software probably

Like your second paragraph alludes to, the switch is not a collector's item and I still can't find any in stores
---

Smashingpmkns posted...

Yaridovich posted...

What are you talking about I've seen nothing BUT complaints!

You have fanboys like @Link_HT and @Bio1590 here on CE saying that their artificial scarcity is a myth
---

I have still yet to see a switch.

I'm starting to think they don't exist.
---

Nintendo gets the WORST complaints.

Nintendos CONSTANT shortages on EVERY PRODUCT THEY EVER RELEASE puts microsoft and sony "shortages" to shame.

People say nintendo isn't creating an artificial shortage, fine then they have the WORST business sense ever and apparently are incapable of understanding that every big product they release sells like hotcakes.
---

ZombiePelican posted...

Smashingpmkns posted...

Yaridovich posted...

What are you talking about I've seen nothing BUT complaints!

You have fanboys like @Link_HT and @Bio1590 here on CE saying that their artificial scarcity is a myth

I have never said that you fucking rube
---

Bio1590 posted...

ZombiePelican posted...

Smashingpmkns posted...

Yaridovich posted...

What are you talking about I've seen nothing BUT complaints!

You have fanboys like @Link_HT and @Bio1590 here on CE saying that their artificial scarcity is a myth

I have never said that you fucking rube

You're right I got you mixed up with another one of my fanboys, sorry
---

So get your head out of your ass and fuck off
---

thompsontalker7 posted...

The Switch has low stock? Oh it's the flash memory being bought up by all the smartphone companies

The SNES sells out in seconds? Oh it's a hot item you should've been up at 4 AM to preorder

The NES Classic is discontinued? Oh it was a limited edition item you shouldn't expect it to be available readily

The first one is a legit issue.

The other two are bullshit, though. I see a lot of complaints towards Nintendo regarding the NES and SNES Classic Editions, especially.
---

They do it because it's the only way people will pay $80 to rehash their nostalgia for five minutes and then never touch it again
---

Literally no one but the most insane fanboys and trolls are making excuses for Nintendo. This process has been a disaster and if they don't keep their word with keeping enough in stock by launch date, the fucking pieces of shit scalpers will make profit by desperate fools that purchase from them.
---

How are limited edition items not a legitimate reason for low supply?


Hmm we can make more than we will sell and take a loss, or we can make slightly less than we think we can sell and assume practically no risk . . . decisions decisions, did we factor in whining online? Oh no that doesn't affect the bottom line, fuck em.
---

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

decisions decisions, did we factor in whining online? Oh no that doesn't affect the bottom line, fuck em.

It does affect the bottom line. Negative PR regarding limited shit really hurt League of Legends / Riot.
---

It wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo is in the scalping racket themselves.
---

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

How are limited edition items not a legitimate reason for low supply?


Hmm we can make more than we will sell and take a loss, or we can make slightly less than we think we can sell and assume practically no risk . . . decisions decisions, did we factor in whining online? Oh no that doesn't affect the bottom line, fuck em.

Slightly less? Did you really just say that?
---

it's ok when Nintendo does it
---

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

How are limited edition items not a legitimate reason for low supply?


Hmm we can make more than we will sell and take a loss, or we can make slightly less than we think we can sell and assume practically no risk . . . decisions decisions, did we factor in whining online? Oh no that doesn't affect the bottom line, fuck em.

Because it's mass-produced hardware being sold at ridiculously high margins. If Nintendo still thinks these things aren't gonna sell as well as the NES Classic then they're as deluded as the fanboys who justify it.
---

This whole shitshow makes me think of the Eyephone on Futurama.

"There may be one..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdLfswmm-zE
---

ChromaticAngel posted...

It does affect the bottom line. Negative PR

Right because the 64 Classic isn't going to immediately sell out . . . this shit isn't going hurt their classic system sells and no one is going to fret about it regarding their new shit.

This shit is a genius level marketing ploy because any "wahh limited production" woes are countered by millions of "OMG THIS SHIT IS SO AWESOME I GOT TO HAVE IT."
Even the people complaining about it are still having it put in the back of their mind that Nintendo = amazing.
---

thompsontalker7 posted...

MarioBro88 posted...

Shut the fuck up.

Found the fanboy

I have a Switch too you nerd

I don't care.

Shut the fuck up.
---

The seventh post won.
---

1v1 me in Blood Gulch then you scrub
---

Topics like this about nintendo are made literally all the time but not once have I seen these theoretical people outside of the TC's head.
---

I want a nintendo brand snes classic but if i cant get one then ill get an "off brand" one. Your move Nintendo.
---

and when the 64 classic comes out with...15 games for $100, it will be a scalpers dream.

and then when they release nes classic 2.0 for $70 and then the snes classic 2.0 for $100 and...

you get the picture.

this is alllll apart of their plan.

Nintendo is quite shitty.
---

The problem with most of you guys is that you guys think Nintendo's the only one doing this.
---

They get criticized all the time for it Nintendo just doesn't do anything about it.
---

TC, I get where you're coming from. Make this topic on the Switch board and it will be exactly what you posted.

But system boards are full of delusionals. Everyone else realizes Nintendo does this on purpose and how they thrive on it.
---

legendarylemur posted...

The problem with most of you guys is that you guys think Nintendo's the only one doing this.

No, but Nintendo has been the most consistent when it comes to these "shortages".
---

Spidey5 posted...

Topics like this about nintendo are made literally all the time but not once have I seen these theoretical people outside of the TC's head.

Every response in this topic is rock hard denial.

"Who's defending Nintendo? Nobody does that! All they do is whine and bitch."

YouTube is 24 hour Nintendo defense full force. They click bait the thumbnail like they want to complain. They spend the first two minutes ranting and then spend the next ten minutes defending the company.

And you need look no further than this site for nonstop Nintendo defense, the sheer denial here being only more evidence. Once upon a time you couldn't even criticize a Nintendo property without getting modded on Gamefaqs. Things aren't that bad now but people can't help but stick up for them and give them all the credit they can, even when they don't deserve it.

How many posts here about limited editions and brilliant marketing? but hey, let's ignore the blatant evidence to discredit the first post. That's not defending Nintendo or anything.
---