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I'd only buy Animal Crossing Amiibos if they were buy 1 get 4. I can't imagine they'd ever go to that price.
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MasterSlowPoke posted:I'd only buy Animal Crossing Amiibos if they were buy 1 get 4. I can't imagine they'd ever go to that price. you can already get some Animal Crossing amiibo for 99 cents.
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Jun 30, 2017 20:21
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Phantasium posted:you can already get some Animal Crossing amiibo for 99 cents. the plural is Amiibos
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MasterSlowPoke posted:I'd only buy Animal Crossing Amiibos if they were buy 1 get 4. I can't imagine they'd ever go to that price. I'm pretty sure the Animal Crossing ones were buy 1 get 3 free at Toys R Us at some point earlier this year.
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Jun 30, 2017 20:35
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:I'm pretty sure the Animal Crossing ones were buy 1 get 3 free at Toys R Us at some point earlier this year. They are that deal RIGHT now at Toys R Us. A person came in yesterday buying every character. And their permanent price is only 8.99 so it two bucks per character.
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Jun 30, 2017 20:37
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If the SNES Classic can be hacked to play Awful Fantasy I would buy 10 still gonna buy it regardless
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Jun 30, 2017 20:39
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KingShibby posted:If the SNES Classic can be hacked to play Awful Fantasy I would buy 10 lol Look at this guy thinking he's going to have the option to buy it.
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Jun 30, 2017 20:42
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Preordered two at two different stores so that I can cancel whichever ships last
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Jun 30, 2017 20:44
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ditty bout my clitty posted:Preordered two so that I can cancel whichever ships last GreatGreen posted:lol
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GreatGreen posted:It seems like if Nintendo actually gave a drat about its customers and still wanted to maintain an iota of exclusivity, all they would really have to do is just accept as many preorders people are willing to pay for in full, then make exactly enough to fulfill the preorders plus an additional chunk for planned RMAs or defective units and bam. Everybody is happy provided you put enough advertisements out there to let people know you're planning to sell them this way. Limiting preorders is entirely unnecessary. Nintendo has every opportunity to gauge exactly how much demand this SKU will have before they even begin production. This would be logistically insane, which is why no one does it.
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Tender Bender posted:This would be logistically insane, which is why no one does it. How so? Serious question, I'm legitimately asking.
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Guy Goodbody posted:the plural is Amiibos Paging jivjov to the thread
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Rirse posted:They are that deal RIGHT now at Toys R Us. A person came in yesterday buying every character. And their permanent price is only 8.99 so it two bucks per character. Oh nice. I bought them all at release at full price cause I'm dumb.
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Jun 30, 2017 22:01
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GreatGreen posted:How so? Serious question, I'm legitimately asking. Production chains are incredibly slow, and in reality very few people pre-order, much less pay in full up front. Nintendo knows it's leaving money on the table, but it's much more lucrative to produce a set number knowing you'll sell out than overproduce and be stuck with inventory that comes back or worse, never leaves the warehouse in the first place.
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Crackbone posted:Production chains are incredibly slow, and in reality very few people pre-order, much less pay in full up front. Nintendo knows it's leaving money on the table, but it's much more lucrative to produce a set number knowing you'll sell out than overproduce and be stuck with inventory that comes back or worse, never leaves the warehouse in the first place. Nintendo has to know that there's a middle ground between producing 5000 units and producing a billion, and that the WiiU sold badly because it was poo poo.
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ditty bout my clitty posted:Nintendo has to know that there's a middle ground between producing 5000 units and producing a billion, and that the WiiU sold badly because it was poo poo. They made over 2 million NES classics, that's not a tiny production run.
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Jun 30, 2017 22:31
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Wow, that was about a million and a half more than I thought
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ditty bout my clitty posted:Wow, that was about a million and a half more than I thought Yeah. http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/04/28/nes-classic-edition-shipped-23-million-units-worldwide-before-its-cancellation They definitely underestimated last time, my guess would be the cost/time to spin up more production wasn't worth it for them, especially since they had the SNES classic in the pipeline.
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Crackbone posted:Yeah. I honestly think the margin/profit on the NES and SNES Classics must be borderline zero. Licensing is likely the biggest fee, and since there is no DLC it's a one time sale. There has to be a secondary reason why they released the items - there's no way they are high profit, because if there were then they would make as many as they could - contrary to popular belief, I'm sure they don't hate money. The question is why? They are getting a ton of media attention for these systems, so maybe their goal was to draw attention toward the Switch as people saw related stories? A non-gamer who used to love Zelda tries to get a NES Classic and can't, but sees a story on BotW and decides "Oh poo poo that looks great, maybe I'll grab that instead!"
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Jun 30, 2017 22:42
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I am probably the only one who is excited to get one so I can see what the tiny poster they include is, right? I love the old NES "Now You're Playing With Power" ad they included with the NES Classic.
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Jun 30, 2017 22:57
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Someone gonna make a killing on animal crossing amiibo when AC: Switch comes out.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:I am probably the only one who is excited to get one so I can see what the tiny poster they include is, right? I love the old NES "Now You're Playing With Power" ad they included with the NES Classic. Detailed suicide instructions
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Jun 30, 2017 23:04
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ditty bout my clitty posted:the WiiU sold badly because it was poo poo It has better hardware than the Wii, a better gimmick (but also the Wii's gimmick), plays Wii games, and has good exclusives like Super Mario 3D World and Bayonetta 2 Whether it's poo poo depends on how you evaluate a platform but there's no standard by which it's poo poo and the Wii isn't
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ditty bout my clitty posted:Detailed suicide instructions I like retro ads.
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wizard on a water slide posted:Whether it's poo poo depends on how you evaluate a platform but there's no standard by which it's poo poo and the Wii isn't Good point.
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GreatGreen posted:How so? Serious question, I'm legitimately asking. You're making every aspect from setting a budget to working out deals with manufacturers to going into production to distribution, more complicated and subject to change by making it all dependent on pre-order totals and specific numbers from specific retailers. And collecting those is a nightmare in itself unless you're only selling through like, the nintendo, best buy, Amazon, and Walmart websites, which will miss a large chunk of potential buyers. And you're relying on your distributors to accurately collect and report pre-orders through their various methods. It's doable, but takes a lot more effort, and who's gonna be doing that, and what would they be doing instead? Then consider you're either going to have to rush manufacturing way more than is ideal, or take pre-orders way earlier than is ideal, in which case you're going to get inaccurate numbers. And you're going to have to have a hard cap anyway, because what if the pre-order numbers are higher than what you're able to work out with manufacturers? Then people get their pre-orders canceled and you run into an entirely different pr shitstorm. And if you don't do it perfectly you're gonna undersell or oversell which defeats the whole point! It's just like... A big headache for little gain. You're still gonna piss off everyone who didn't know to pre-order like nine months ahead of time.
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I hope they put in blast processing this time
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Over the course of 2016, for various reasons, I picked up a PS3, Xbox 360, and a Wii U My PS3 I snagged merely to scratch my God of War itch. My Xbox 360 got a little bit of play for South Park and Halo 3/4. My Wii U, however, is at 13 games and counting, and is the only console of the three I actively seek out on a daily basis. Sure, I'm just playing catch-up after the system was released however long ago. But having a solid 15-20 titles that are complete bangers (along with full Wii backwards compatibility) means I'm going to ride this thing till the disc drive and/or the 500GB hard drive I attached crumbles to dust. In conclusion, I can happily bide my time until whenever I can get my hands on the SNES Classic. Feed me more Nintendo asap ProjektorBoy fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Jul 1, 2017 |
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wizard on a water slide posted:It has better hardware than the Wii, a better gimmick (but also the Wii's gimmick), plays Wii games, and has good exclusives like Super Mario 3D World and Bayonetta 2 The Wii U is one of my favorite consoles ever although the Switch will probably overtake it just due to it getting all the good Wii U games too. It still has more good exclusives than PS4 and Xbone.
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wizard on a water slide posted:Whether it's poo poo depends on how you evaluate a platform but there's no standard by which it's poo poo and the Wii isn't price?
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Medullah posted:
I don't necessarily think a non-gamer who was thinking about maybe getting an $80 nostalgia thing is going to suddenly grab a $500 new console when they see it is out of stock but I guess it does raise Nintendo's profile in general and get people talking about the old games
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If anything, I expect stone age gamer to experience an influx of orders of the sd2snes once the snes mini stock dries up. Sure, its quite a bit more expensive, doesn't come with hardware or games, but it definitely scratches the same itch with I assume better emulation accuracy.
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Mario RPG, Yoshi's Island, Kirby Superstar, Starfox, and Starfox 2 sadly won't work on a SD2SNES.
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Acolyte! posted:Mario RPG, Yoshi's Island, Kirby Superstar, Starfox, and Starfox 2 sadly won't work on a SD2SNES. Ah, thats a bummer. Having only played Starfox, it wouldn't bother me as much but I guess thats a deal breaker for some.
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Holy poo poo guys Chrono Trigger is loving awesome! I have no nostalgia for it since I never played it before, and it's remarkable how well it holds up. Only an hour in, and it's a blast.
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Severed posted:Ah, thats a bummer. Having only played Starfox, it wouldn't bother me as much but I guess thats a deal breaker for some. Well it is 3 of the very best games for the system
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enojy posted:Paging jivjov to the thread Hi! The plural of amiibo is amiibo! Have a nice day!
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ColonelJohnMatrix posted:Holy poo poo guys Chrono Trigger is loving awesome! I have no nostalgia for it since I never played it before, and it's remarkable how well it holds up. Only an hour in, and it's a blast. Glad to hear you're enjoying it. There's a lot of little secrets and flavor so take your time. 
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