Gunslinger
Member
Make more unit rather than under producing to generate fake hype. And limit 1 per address and customers.
1 per ship to address. Pay in full in advance. Plenty of order time. Done.
Honest question you guys - how are Nintendo supposed to make "enough to meet demand"? They can't take preorders and just make that many - that's not how retail works, and it's not how production lines work. So moving on to the next one.
Making a ton of them: this will never work either. Scalpers will just buy more of them because it's limited.
Think about it - let's say Nintendo allowed 1 million preorders last week, and 750,000 of them were scalpers.
If they made 2 million, those scalpers running bots would have just sucked up anything extra.
What about 10 million? Well, now the entire second hand market would be a saturated mess, but they still would _never_ sit on store shelves. And Nintendo clearly can't make that many anyway, so the whole comparison is pointless.
My overall point, is that even if they could saturate shelves everywhere, retailers would not like that, and resellers would still claim _most_ of them.
The issue is having anything limited edition, and after the NES Classic, there is literally no _produceable_ number of units that would have avoided scalping. You'd just have people hoarding them for months, slowly trickling them through eBay as to not have to cut the competition.
So many armchair economists ITT, my god.
Honest question you guys - how are Nintendo supposed to make "enough to meet demand"? They can't take preorders and just make that many - that's not how retail works, and it's not how production lines work. So moving on to the next one.
Making a ton of them: this will never work either. Scalpers will just buy more of them because it's limited.
Think about it - let's say Nintendo allowed 1 million preorders last week, and 750,000 of them were scalpers.
If they made 2 million, those scalpers running bots would have just sucked up anything extra.
What about 10 million? Well, now the entire second hand market would be a saturated mess, but they still would _never_ sit on store shelves. And Nintendo clearly can't make that many anyway, so the whole comparison is pointless.
My overall point, is that even if they could saturate shelves everywhere, retailers would not like that, and resellers would still claim _most_ of them.
The issue is having anything limited edition, and after the NES Classic, there is literally no _produceable_ number of units that would have avoided scalping. You'd just have people hoarding them for months, slowly trickling them through eBay as to not have to cut the competition.
So many armchair economists ITT, my god.
Honest question you guys - how are Nintendo supposed to make "enough to meet demand"? They can't take preorders and just make that many - that's not how retail works, and it's not how production lines work. So moving on to the next one.
Making a ton of them: this will never work either. Scalpers will just buy more of them because it's limited.
Think about it - let's say Nintendo allowed 1 million preorders last week, and 750,000 of them were scalpers.
If they made 2 million, those scalpers running bots would have just sucked up anything extra.
What about 10 million? Well, now the entire second hand market would be a saturated mess, but they still would _never_ sit on store shelves. And Nintendo clearly can't make that many anyway, so the whole comparison is pointless.
My overall point, is that even if they could saturate shelves everywhere, retailers would not like that, and resellers would still claim _most_ of them.
The issue is having anything limited edition, and after the NES Classic, there is literally no _produceable_ number of units that would have avoided scalping. You'd just have people hoarding them for months, slowly trickling them through eBay as to not have to cut the competition.
So many armchair economists ITT, my god.
To the above:
DON'T MAKE IT LIMITED!
This is 100000% on Nintendo.
Open pre-orders early on nintendo.com, produce that number of units, rake in money.
Scalpers will always exist to some extent, but Nintendo seems to be the only electronics manufacturer that this continuously happens to. Their supply chain management is non-existent.