I agree with you to a point. But you are all over the place. "Rise-up and stop enabling Nintendo's anti-consumer practices, but I will enjoy my Nintendo products as a self-identified hypocrite."
Look, I agree we owe gaming companies no loyalty. However they don't owe us as much as we think. They make games not epidepherine shots. If Nintendo wants to intentionally underproduce a hot item, that's NOT anti-consumer just because it's in high demand. You just don't like having fandom being taking advantage of. But guess what? Fandom is professionally curated by corporations to serve their interests. Not yours. This low priced impulse item was made not to make money on store shelves, but to make CNN as the Christmas 2017 must-have. Nintendo wants to see people rioting on Black Friday over this thing with red faced 350 lb mothers holding it over their heads at Walmart.
It's really about the Switch.
No, I'm just being honest. It's not like there's some sort of organised push against companies I can be a part of so my own position is pretty much "don't scalp". I don't preorders usually, made an exception for the SNES mini after the shit show of the NES classic. I actually work abroad so to begin with there was plenty of stock of the NES Mini for a while. Then people caught on to how much they could make selling them in Europe or the US, so the market got rinsed and shops took them off sale, then they came back mysteriously but at 3 times the price. You can still pick it up but for the low low price of $250.
The present system with video game manufacturers doesn't reward you for loyalty, it penalises you. If Nintendo want to underproduce, that's their prerogative. But when Nintendo underproduce and you're limited in how you can obtain it, that's anticonsumer. Can only buy from select retailers as part of a bundle? Pretty bullshit to me. Hiding game modes and/or DLC behind amiibo paywalls that you can't find? Absolute farce.
Lets be real, games companies exploit both gamers excitement and nostalgia, which is pretty much how business works, but with the added insult of making you jump through numerous hoops to get there.
Its like they're training people to be desperate and obedient. Remember how Sony sold the retro PS4?
Gaming is a fucked market because it's hard to get substitutes. You can't take your copy of Zelda and play it on a Samsung Switch. If you want to play a certain first party game, either you cave and buy the console or you don't and, well, that's it.
Anyway, you said it yourself, Nintendo want people to be beating the shit out of each other for it on Black Friday rather than, I dunno, make enough copies to sell to both? And since those punches keep flying, nothing will change. Media pressure is a good step though.
