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Do you think the shortages might be strategic?

Yes 34 42.50%
 
No 25 31.25%
 
I think you need to stop self medicating 20 25.00%
 
Total:79
archer9234 on 04 January 2015
The_Yoda said:
KingdomHeartsFan said:
The_Yoda said:

See here : http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Disney_Vault

It all depends on how long they support the initial release, and I've never heard of shortages for Disney movies.  FYI Nintendo re-releases their games too 10 or w/e years later.

Haven't you ever heard people draw comparisons between the long lived companies of Nintendo and Disney? Sometimes the perception of a limited eddition helps to drive demand, and what better way to drive that kind of demand than to let your limit be a perception only... bear in mind I'm talking strictly about Disney here.

It only drives the demand for ebay. Most of the time, when I found out the movie was discontinued, it was already too late and $80 from a-holes. Yeah, it works for the people that strictly follow Disney news. But that's not a lot. Just recently MANTIS was discontinued. I just kept waiting. I didn't think Universal was gonna pull that DVD set. Granted it came out 8 years ago.

But there's other DVD shows out longer from them. Now I have to scramble and buy all the other less known shows they released on DVD before those vanish too. I'm not paying $135 on amazon for MANTIS, BS. I have to now go buy a PAL copy. With Disney I just don't bother when a movie is pulled. And move on to something else. There's like 20 movies from them they never got my sale from cause of this nonsense.



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slab_of_bacon on 04 January 2015

Since yes and no together was not an option, I chose option #3.

That being said, those amiibos aren't as popular so they didn't make as many. Had Nintendo made the same quantity for all models, they would have lost a little money on it. "Yes" I'm sure they knew this but "No" I don't think they had much of a choice.



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The_Yoda on 04 January 2015
slab_of_bacon said:
Since yes and no together was not an option, I chose option #3.

That being said, those amiibos aren't as popular so they didn't make as many. Had Nintendo made the same quantity for all models, they would have lost a little money on it. "Yes" I'm sure they knew this but "No" I don't think they had much of a choice.

That's going to skew what I was thinking about the poll, I'd been counting the "stop self-medicating" answers as a "no"