I wouldn’t put too much faith on this article. It’s coming from one retailer, probably not big enough to secure enough shipment, while also not limiting its preorders not knowing how many copies they can get.

Seems more like they tried to bluff and force Nintendo to allow them a bigger shipment by showing huge numbers of preorder. It just backfired.

This ""revolution"" is actually a pretty bad thing. Is some years gaming industry will be like movie industry, formulaic and relying only on all time famous IPs, with nobody daring to take risks and innovate 

We get to the point the only way to try a new movie blockbuster is to "import" them from other medias, like comics, animes, games, etc. 

Fortunately, there will always be indie games to save us from this boredom 

I don't know. I do know im making Pikmin 3 Deluxe a priority over Mario collection.

No it's more widespread than that. Seems Nintendo just woefully undershipped for the launch. Hopefully that isn't the case for the entire 6 month run. Apparently Both target and Amazon in the US are completely out of initial shipments based on preorders already. Nintendo has once again screwed up availability of a major product launch.

There’s a difference between being out of stock because of high demand or because of lack of offer. 
The article you linked also said that it’s seem a problem specific to this retailer and copies were still available to preorder on other online store like Amazon, at the time.

Don’t forget that the game will be available in a 2 week period following the announcement, it can affect the size of the initial shipment negatively, that doesn’t mean there won’t be an additional shipment in the days that follow, and in case like this, I won’t be surprised if Nintendo deliberately allocated their shipments to the bigger chain like Gamestop, Wal-Mart or Amazon, just to name those.

Having worked for EB and Best Buy, I know they operate and on a 2 week window, the initial shipment was already on route to their distribution center or already there, thus easier for those retailer to allocate limits per store on the number of preorders available. And from what I saw, they looked pretty much confident. So I’ll take this as a grain of salt.

Yes I am.
They're emulated roms btw not really ports.
There are reports of data files of other N64 titles that were accidentally left in the Super Mario 64 emulator.
My guess is that N64 and possibly GameCube and Wii will eventually make the jump to NSO and that's why it's a limited release.

Yes

The technical aspects of the games shows just how little effort was put into this compilation. Super Mario 64 could run on a toaster at this point, but they didn't even get it to 1080P or 60 FPS. Sunshine is also stuck at 30 FPS. But Galaxy, which is the most technically demanding game of the bunch, is running at 1080P and 60 FPS just because it ran at 60 on original hardware. If the Switch can handle Galaxy at 60 FPS the other 2 should be no problem. They just didn't care to do it.

Imagine if the Halo collection had Halo 4 running at full HD and 60 FPS, but Halo 3 ran at 30 FPS, and Halo 1 ran at 30 FPS and just 720P. You'd rightly wonder why the less demanding the game, the worse it runs.

83 for the collection on Metacritic as of writing; not surprisingly, a lot of criticism's being aimed at how bare-bones the collection is.

I'd expected that 64 would get a lot of "it hasn't aged well" complaints thrown at it by the reviewers, but as it turns out, it's actually Sunshine that's got the critics saying that.