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Kotaku: Conflict between Nintendo and Amazon just keeps getting stranger
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mentalfloss
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Recommending similar products is shilling now?
Diddy Kong
Banned
Damn. What goes on
-Pyromaniac-
Member
Damn even the vita is selling out over the wii U.
Also yeah there's obviously some bad blood here for some reason. Or maybe they just want the Vita to sell because they have a lot of them.
Also yeah there's obviously some bad blood here for some reason. Or maybe they just want the Vita to sell because they have a lot of them.
grimshawish
Banned
Could Amazon have been another online seller Nintendo approached over their online stuff?
When you're only doing it to those viewing Nintendo platforms, it kinda is.
The point is that on those other product pages amazon is not recommending any Nintendo products.
Edit: beaten.
my first thought.
SolsticeZero
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Advertising a console that isn't out yet over one that's in stock. Cold blooded, Amazon.
Can't really blame them
So the fact that amazon has been having problems with Nintendo for 2+ years now isn't being taken into account?
Baconsammy
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This isn't bad, nor is it new. Amazon has been doing this for many months. Can't blame them for advertising what they actually carry.
They're a business, not an equal opportunity charity.
They're a business, not an equal opportunity charity.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
And if you fold that Amazon page a certain way, you can see it clearly spells the name "OSAMA."
Alcoholikaust
Member
this is so strange. I mean for whatever reason I have never needed Nintendo hardware from amazon, but they always have the Nintendo software I want (at a cost) but never really thought more about it.
You really can't but I wish both companies would shed some light on this. Amazon is a big retailer and the exclusion of Nintendo consoles isn't particularly good for both companies, at least in the case of the 3DS. The Wii u wouldn't sell regardless, lol.
Something about screen scratching and stuff.
shinobi602
Member
Sorry, didn't mean any harm dude.
ClovingWestbrook
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Meh, I doubt this has any effect.
Baconsammy
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Yeah, Kotaku's story is weak. Instead of posting something that's been going on for a long long time, why not do some digging and find out the real story behind the mini-feud that led to this?
Amazon not selling Nintendo hardware directly definitely has an effect.
gutter_trash
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amazon keeps track what you have been browsing, lets say I have been searching for lets say ''Spider-Man'. You will end up having lots of Spider-Man popping up when searching for a DVD and whatever.
WickedLaharl
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TheNatural
My Member!
Amazon does this with anything. What are they even making this a story for?
Napalm_Frank
Member
Nothing wrong recommending dat Vita :3
They tried a while back and couldn't find anything.
Yeah, maybe they should try harder, but this story is funny and I'm glad they posted it.
Everything we know has been speculation so far. Amazon stopped selling Nintendo hardware in the summer of 2011.
Some also speculated it was because of high returns of the 3DS, because of the screen scratching.
But so far this "statement" from Reggie is the only thing we've officially heard from either side about the issue.
http://kotaku.com/5944662/something...ntendo-and-amazon-but-neither-side-is-talking
"We don't talk about our specific business practices with individual retailers, and so you're not going to get any more information from me specific to Amazon or any of our different retail partners," he told me last week in an interview.
"What I can tell you is they are selling software, and [there] are resellers that are on the site selling hardware as well, but you're right: Amazon as a direct sale company currently does not sell Nintendo hardware."
Yup. And more like, "Maybe you'd be interested in Hulk" etc.
There is nothing weird or unusual about Amazon suggesting other console hardware while browsing for console hardware. It does that for REALLY OBVIOUS REASONS.
shinobi602
Member
Except for Nintendo products, it seems.
Mystic_Wanderer
Member
Yeah, they have a business reason for it.
You don't become the #1 online retailer (they are, right?) by holding silly grudges and fostering petty conflicts.
I mean, if this were a "neutral" site, like IGN doing it - yeah, there's an issue. A retailer doing it? Like others have said, they're not a charity. Nintendo can always pull their stuff off Amazon.
You don't become the #1 online retailer (they are, right?) by holding silly grudges and fostering petty conflicts.
I mean, if this were a "neutral" site, like IGN doing it - yeah, there's an issue. A retailer doing it? Like others have said, they're not a charity. Nintendo can always pull their stuff off Amazon.
Flying Toaster
Member
Slow news day.
I thought it had to do something with Nintendo products being released on Sunday or something.
Holy shit, they even use the entire 3DS Product Description section to talk about the differences between it, the PSP and the Vita. The Vita gets a nicely formatted PR blurb on its page.
This is so different and more extreme than it does for every other system though.
This is so different and more extreme than it does for every other system though.
don't let Jason bully you. Source to bottomz!
Baconsammy
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Except it doesn't do it like this with anything else. For instance, if I spend a week searching for Playstation games and it knows I'm interested in them, it's not going to recommend an Xbox 360 to me when I look at a PS3. They only do this with Nintendo hardware. For good reason. I applaud them for it.
ClovingWestbrook
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Amazon not selling Nintendo hardware has an effect but Amazon recommending the PS4/Vita when you check Nintendo hardware pages most likely doesn't.
That's funny because when I go to the page for Xbox 360 it recommends me Microsoft game console products. It's similarly as funny when I go to playstation 3's page and I'm recommended Sony products. Definitely nothing.
What?
