I dont get what you mean by this sentence... How would one know the demand of something like this? Preorders arent a good indicator...

But the Wii U actually started pretty well. It was the abysmal years after the launch that were bad. Not a good comparison.

This makes little sense.
N is facing a bad quarter and Jim thinks they want to lose money...? If they knew 10 m Ness Mini's would have sold, they would have loved to sell them. That's a no-brainer for any company .

Well... The wiiU wasnt too hard to find during launch in many places while selling less than wii which was sold out so... 

Nintendo has a habit of shorting shipments to create a false sense of scarcity and hype, the NES Classic isn't new in this area. Its a shitty practice, especially when paired with a product that is actually in high-demand. Nintendo seems to be unwilling to learn from this for some reason, they dealt with the same situation not too long ago with amiibo. You'd think actually having a product on shelves for people to buy would be a good thing, but Nintendo gonna Nintendo.

They didn't allow pre-orders worldwide. Hell. Many retailers believes they are not going to ship anymore. How is that good? If they allowed worldwide preorders, Nintendo could have shipped the ones to meet pre-orders and leave a few ones on shelves.

There's no excuse as this is an intended practice as Raven has pointed. Zero excuses this time. Zero.

Lots of tinfoil hats in here.... yeah Nintendo undership just to create buzz... give me a f**king break..
why risk shipping millions upon millions of NES minis that might not be sold and loose billions or ship enought consoles to test the waters before shipping the rest.

Yea but it is dependent on how they think it is going to sell to begin with... If they don't think its going to sell that much, they aren't going to order/make that much to begin with. They may have thought they didn't need to go through the trouble of having pre-orders avaliable everywhere due to what being the hardware is which is just a console that can play very old nes games which can be played very easily through many other means. I am sure the stores require a fee or something to make certain items avaliable for pre-order vs ones that don't so I say it is a cost cutting measure.

And I doubt they aren't going to ship anymore unless they really didn't think it wasn't going to sell that much and didn't order enough before hand.

I dunno.. that still doesn't look very good on Nintendo. Having little faith in such a nostalgia-bait impulse buy item seems very silly, especially when the thing is probably dirt cheap to produce. They're a huge company, they shouldn't be THIS bad at guaging consumer demand.

Yeah Nintendo do this, and I say this as a huge fan of theirs. It might have worked in the 80s and 90s... but social media is shitting all over Nintendo these days when they do stuff like this. Does not work anymore.

Time to stop it.

With that said, he was a bit annoying to listen to. Maybe this is his style, but non the less. You can complain without sound like a massive douche.