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Kai_Mao said:
caffeinade said:
Originality...

How many units do we expect Nintendo to produce ahead of time?
If they made ten million units for preorder that would be over half a billion USD in inventory.
There are not many companies in the world that could handle the warehouses / capital required to store all of that.

The thing also to point out is that Nintendo doesn't have their own manufacturing lines. They have to pay for manufacturing lines with as much orders as they can order. Its not a simple snap of the finger as its not as accessible when needed. That's what they have been facing with Switch manufacturing, especially since there is a year round shortage of the NAND memory chip.

I don't know how many would want this (though having Star Fox 2 and Yoshi's Island would entice customers who want to play these games), given most of the games are either emulated in other avenues or they have the original console and all.

You can't compare scarcity of Switch to the NES/SNES Classics.  There is nothing holding production back except Nintendo.  I work contract manufacturing.  You just described a part shortage of a component that goes into the Switch and somehow applied it to NES/SNES Classic.  Guess what?  There are no part shortages for NES/SNES Classic editions.