NES Classic Struggles With Supply, Out of Stock Almost Everywhere

[Fulbert]

Meanwhile Wii U is still available...

 

[Bedinsis]

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Call it a conspiracy theory if you will but I would rather bet on cunning rather than incompetence from Nintendo at this point. This is a mirror of the Amiibo situation for sure, but also remember that the artificial scarcity at the start of that project had the perception of rarity persist long after they increased their production and shipment batches.

And thank you to those that read through such a boring post about wacky business theory and marketing psychology.

Not at all, I thought it was a not improbable assessment of the situation.

Then Nintendo of America started tweeting about the situation, and my grading of your assessment went up a notch to "probable".

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/797124398813626372

 

[loa]

Why would this thing be succesful?
You can do the same thing better with your phone and a bluetooth gamepad.
Did you look at the cords of the gamepads on that thing?
They're like 1m long, it's ridiculous.

It's a worse ouya.

 

[jp201]

Why would this thing be succesful?
You can do the same thing better with your phone and a bluetooth gamepad.
Did you look at the cords of the gamepads on that thing?
They're like 1m long, it's ridiculous.

It's a worse ouya.

exactly the ouya can emulate over 800 NES games along with over 700 snes and close to 300 n64 games and its the same price at this point. Also emulates all the PS1 games.

 

[Towowo]

I don't know about everyone else, but I like owning things. There is something about owning the thing your playing that motivates me to beat said games. I'm sorry but I don't see anyone interested in playing them on a phone with small screens like that.

 

[Transdude1996]

Why would this thing be succesful?
You can do the same thing better with your phone and a bluetooth gamepad.
Did you look at the cords of the gamepads on that thing?
They're like 1m long, it's ridiculous.

It's a worse ouya.

exactly the ouya can emulate over 800 NES games along with over 700 snes and close to 300 n64 games and its the same price at this point. Also emulates all the PS1 games.

Only one of those systems you listed can have games ripped by the average individual, and with no additional hardware.

I don't know about everyone else, but I like owning things. There is something about owning the thing your playing that motivates me to beat said games. I'm sorry but I don't anyone is interested in playing them on a phone with small screens like that.

Touch screens are a nightmare for games with more than 3 buttons (Unless the game is designed around it).

 

[ToastyMozart]

I don't know about everyone else, but I like owning things. There is something about owning the thing your playing that motivates me to beat said games. I'm sorry but I don't see anyone interested in playing them on a phone with small screens like that.

Works pretty great on tablets though, apparently Android has native Xinput support.

 

[WeepingAngels]

Why don't people just play these games on the Wii, Wii U or the 3DS?