04-13-2017, 06:10 PM | #1 |
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Nintendo discontinues NES Classic...why?
Could someone explain to me why Nintendo was having chronic problems meeting demand for this, and why they'd go out and discontinue it? It's not like people were being forced to pay secondary market prices for it. Just freaking make it more expensive. It's not like Nintendo was making the system out of the goodness of their hearts.
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04-13-2017, 06:55 PM | #2 |
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Nintendo has always been pretty bad about logistics. I also think they like to fall on the side of cautious and is more willing to underproduce an item than overproduce it. Underprocution also gives the item a more rare feel and makes their items more prestigious.
Also, the NES Classic doesn't make them any more money in the long term like the Nintendo Switch would. There's no future NES Classic titles you would buy or anything like that. Switching production to Nintendo Switches would probably be better for their long term plans. |
04-13-2017, 07:11 PM | #3 |
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I may have an analogous situation, I guess.
Earlier this year, the College of American Patholigists issued new guidance for a lot of immunoassay tests. The basic gist was that immunoassays have such a sway on doctor decisions (for drug screens, pregnancy tests, rapid streps) and so cannot simply be relegated as "waived" testing if human intervention is involved. Therefore, all immunoassays were upgraded from "waived" to "moderately complex" status unless the assay was 100% automated. Becton Dickinson, in response, released a rapid strep test that used an LED to interpret the immunoassay results. But BD ran into production issues with its kit, and production fell behind 3 months. After those 3 months, BD basically said that the release date of the new kit is still TBA. The end result was a lot of companies started cutting contracts with BD, as the company was causing financial damage by not supplying kits. But, it's not like people can just boycott Nintendo. So what if you stop carrying Nintendo's stuff, people are still gonna buy it. It just means Nintendo doesn't get the money, instead some guy on eBay is going to take advantage of that consumer surplus.
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04-13-2017, 07:11 PM | #4 |
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From what Nintendo was saying, they had never planned for it to be any sort of long-term item and had in fact extended production past what they had originally planned due to its popularity. I would also suspect that they don't want to have to worry about it interfering or competing with sales for the Switch Virtual Console when that comes about.
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04-13-2017, 08:45 PM | #5 |
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Nintendo already made their money from the eBayer buying the item from retailers. They don't care about the aftermarket.
If they oversupply the market with NES Classics, they instead end up with warehouses of already built NES Classics that don't end up being sold, they end up losing a bunch of money to store them and the construction of the units. |
04-14-2017, 08:11 AM | #6 |
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Nintendo have always been fucking awful at supply and demand.
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