Mnementh said:
LOL, you're so cute. I'm fully aware that Nintendo is a greedy company like any other company. But let merephrase my initial statement for you to understand: Shortages are BAD for business. Any conclusion about "artificial shortage" to "drive demand" are hilarious, because some people really believe that works? Sure, two or three people might be enticed by a product that is out of stock, but what do you do with this increased demand - because you have no stock, you know. On the same day you lose thousands, alone by casual pickups by people seeing the thing in the store and get it because ... why not. You anger people who did want it. You lose people because over time they move on and lose interest. But sure, "artificial shortage" is for business. Logical thinking isn't your strong suit, is it? |
The fact that they turned digital DLC (unlimited supply) into collectable figurines that have a very limited supply is proof enough that they use scarcity marketing to sell their products. The whole point of it is to create a craze or strong demand by making a product seem more scarce to the consumer. The trick to it is controlled scarcity.
Nintendo will likely sell all of the NS stock they're withholding throughout the year during the holidays/black friday. It will get people more hungry for it by teasing them throughout the year. They don't lose any sells because anyone who really wants it will buy it whenever they can and those resellers will buy any stock they can to resell. Some people might get mad at the shortages but they'll still buy it sooner or later if they were looking for one in the first place.
It's a win win for nintendo. You and some of other blind ones are attributing a negative tone like "nintendo is evil" or "nintendo is being greedy" to my posts about this when there's no tone of that sort to my posts. If i'm anything I'm saying that nintendo is being smart by doing this.
Logical thinking isn't my strong suit, huh? Got any more jabs for me? You guys get so emotional over this shit. 
