reading the neogaf amiibo discussion made it clear to not even start...however..if there was a golden sun amiibo I'd go apeshit trying to get one(yes I'm that easily swayed nintendo)

If Nintendo did meet demands in time it would be great for them.  The issue is Nintendo seems set to make it near impossible to get certain figures costing them sales and making ebay re-sellers a tidy profit.  They could make twice as many of some and still sell out within a day or two at this point.

Yeah, when's Palu landing?

I also need to get some of my other mains (Ike, Bowser, King Dedede, and Pac-Man)

July. I'm hoping its after the 22nd of July though, due to exams and end of school and stuff.

The article is bang on.

Nintendo's handling the Amiibo situation poorly. Understandable at first, but not by now.

Yeah...duh.

If they can fix stock issues, all will be solved :/

I think they expect Amiibos to have a demand similar to Skylanders or Disney Infinity.

The first wave of Skylanders (Spyro´s Adventure) had 32 different figures, some were easier to find than others, but people didn´t seem to care that much, what was somewhat curious, because Skylanders actually demand players to have the figures in order to explore all that the game has to offer. So I´d assume that people would naturally feel pissed off for feeling forced to buy figures that could be hard to find (specially those extra worlds bundles)

In the case of Amiibos, they simply decided to produce huge amounts of the most popular characters. It´s easy to find Mario, Peach, Kirby, Pikachu, Link amiibos, and the rare amiibos normally refer to characters from games that are not so popular, like Shulk from Xenoblades or Fire Emblem characters or Captain Falcon from F-Zero.

I believe that the real problem is lack of a comprehensive marketing research to feel what would be fans expectations with the product. They launched amiibos taking Skylanders/Disney Infinity as a model - taking out the forced aquisitions - but without proper knowledge of their own consumers.

What can be done by now? Increase production and distribution. And fast.

Skullwaker said: Preach it, Forbes. Still getting dat Yarn Yoshi amiibo though.

I want that one so badly but I am afraid it's going to be sold out in minutes when pre-orders in NA open.

I agree, this level of stock is nonsense and the future stock that the amiibos are getting are also nonsense... Like come on, its like if u dont preorder one within the first few hours of release, u will have to wait several weeks but even then, you would be lucky to get one