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V-r0cK on 14 April 2015
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Ouroboros24 said:
V-r0cK said:
Ouroboros24 said:

The amiibo problem is a problem for the core consumer, but not for nintendo.  Amiibos will be available to you at a store of your choice, but you are always limited to finding the most recognizable.  For the casual, it's an entry into the genre.  For core, it is a hunt.  Despite this, the business is thriving because of it.  Gamestop loved the fact that it's online store crashed.  Walmart is greatful for the Gold and Silver Mario edition.  Target, best buy, Toys R us, and game stop love Nintendo for this.  We suffer, but Nintendo is in good standing with where it counts; the profit.  But that's a business, that's how it works, and ultimately for nintendo, it's good for them.

Making consumers suffer is not good for business and ultimately wont be good for the future of the company.

The fact that you made this thread to try and defend their business practice is likely because of all the negativity you've heard about Amiibos which is a clear sign of bad business, and who's fault is that? Nintendo, and they deserve every bit of negative comment in regards to Amiibos.

I wasn't defending, just offering info into Nintendo's madness.  I agree with you, this is bad business, but good for them as the title of the thread implies.  For the uninitiated, amiibo is just this thing Nintendo is doing, but for the above casual gamers like me and maybe you, it's a big deal.  I'm trying to be unbias as I possibly could be.  I don't like that fact that I can't find a Mega man amiibo unless I go to ebay.  In fact, I'm agreeing with you.  I created this thread to try to understand why they're doing this and so far I've made my arguements, just arguements for their strategy. 

I'm trying to be a robotic about this, looking at it as Nintendo would for their current situation.  Nintendo has a good business model that sees their amiibo fly off the shelf whenever they sell them and despite a bad business with the whole scalper thing is for the customer, they continue to sell out of amiibo and there are still a strong demand for them.  Nintendo likes it this way or else they would have implemented something else, something better like direct to customer order, but they're not.  I'm not condoning it, I'm just arguing their stance.  

"Making consumers suffer is not good for business and ultimately wont be good for the future of the company." -This is what tabacco company does all the time.  Don't tell it can't work with Nintendo and their amiibo.  You act like Nintendo has never acted against public opinion, they have and they aren't all to concerned with the backlash, that's why they do it.  And please, you make it sound like amiibo fans are dying because lack of amiibo.  "Suffering", gamers are such drama queens.  This strategy is better for Nintendo than the alternative. 

Comparing Amiibo to cigarettes isn't exactly the same thing, but at least you can always find cigarettes?  Cigarettes causes suffering to the consumers but at least they got it before suffering.  Gamers that 'suffering' in this situation is because they cant even get their hands on the amiibos they want to begin with.

It would be good business to see amiibos flying off the shelf but they're really not flying off the shelves at all when the ones people really want barely even get on the shelf lol.  I was lucky to get a Megaman, and when I asked the worker how many they got, they said 2! Yea I don't consider Megaman amiibo really flying off the shelves when places are hardly getting any stock of it.  You'll always see plenty of Mario, Princess, Luigi etc.. cause nobody wants/cares for that.

The problem with Nintendo Amiibo situation is the lack of stock with Amiibos people really wants and not some generic Nintendo character nobody cares about.

The day of the announcement of the next wave of amiibos (Wave 4) I preordered all of them (Robin, Lucina, Wario, Charizard, Ness, Pac Man), I got a call last week saying they had to cancel my preorder for Robin and Lucina.  Now tell me how exactly is is that good business for Nintendo, or even a good image to the company? They can't even meet the demands of preorders from the launch of the preorders, but im sure they'll make plenty of the others that weren't cancelled and you likely wont see those flying off shelves like the other generic amiibos nobody cares for (aside from Ness as I think he's a Gamespot exclusive).  Anybody that tries collecting amiibos would know it to be foolish to think they'll be getting any more Robin and Lucina amiibos.