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badgenome on 13 January 2017
irstupid said:
I was in 3 best buys this morning, 2 walmarts, 4 targets and a gamestop. I did not see one single switch unit. It's sold out everywhere.

Haha, g1!



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Dulfite on 13 January 2017

Woot was able to order one on Amazon America!



KLAMarine on 13 January 2017

Some people have money to burn, apparently. Imma wait for a price drop or good bundle.



Boutros on 13 January 2017

It's not actually sold out anywhere. That's Nintendo's (now all too obvious) tactic to raise demand by creating artificial rarity. They've been doing that for years now.



KLAMarine on 13 January 2017
Boutros said:
It's not actually sold out anywhere. That's Nintendo's (now all too obvious) tactic to raise demand by creating artificial rarity. They've been doing that for years now.

Excellent. A price drop is more likely now.

Sell at a loss, Nintendo.



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SegataSanshiro on 13 January 2017

It's selling out fast. People are also in long Wii like lines just to pre order. Ebay already scalping.



dgboweniii on 13 January 2017

Just pre-ordered mine of amazon....



Alkibiádēs on 13 January 2017
Boutros said:
It's not actually sold out anywhere. That's Nintendo's (now all too obvious) tactic to raise demand by creating artificial rarity. They've been doing that for years now.

And how does artificial rarity raise demand? Do you honestly believe that? So because someone can't buy something another guy will want to buy it even though he never wanted it before... Yeah, that makes no sense. 



"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must" - Thoukydides

sethnintendo on 13 January 2017
irstupid said:
I was in 3 best buys this morning, 2 walmarts, 4 targets and a gamestop. I did not see one single switch unit. It's sold out everywhere.

Still having trouble finding NES Classic myself.



Wyrdness on 13 January 2017
GhaudePhaede010 said:

I want to get a feel of the general reception since a lot of people on this site seem to be thrown off by last night's conference.

Has the console sold out on any major sites or online stores? Is there any news on how things are looking at this early stage? All the silence is making me wonder if this console will start off slowly or get a nice jump into the market. Any news would be nice. Thanks to anyone that provides information. And I am not talking about one region either. I am talking about any country or region that anyone can provide information about; positive or negative.

I wouldn't take the reactions on this site at face value tbh, going by the explosion on social media like FB and such you'd get the opposite impression as at one point the site had 1m people reacting to the event and it was overwhelmingly positive. People on this site want a portable PS4 that has every game under the sun for example, outside of forums the trailers of Mario, XC2 and Zelda alone made people go mental as they don't really care about all of that.