You too, dood. Didn’t want it to get adversarial! Internet comment boards built for it. And yes, the weekend has been great, thanks for asking!

I’m not buying a mini nes thanks to ‘forced scarcity.’ People don’t just decide and always stay that way. But people just get more annoyed at lame excuses for legitimate discourse. Instead, we get obnoxious, unknowledgable BS spreading.

Yeah, and I compared Nintendo’s production of the Switch to a seemingly mundane Apple product, that is the AirPods. But nah. It’s cooler to find the weak spot of an argument and pick at people with some experience and knowledge than it is to admit that you actually don’t know what you’re talking about and would end up…

Nope. Meeting demand would be better for their profits. Because they could, you know, actually get the money.

I agree that this also plays a part. The guys on this board who have never run a company or dealt with manufacturing drive me nuts. This is a multi billion dollar company and people here are like ‘duh! What idiots!’

Go find a pair of AirPods in an Apple Store in NYC right now. Ask them how long it would take to fulfill your order? You might or might not want that particular product but after 4 months, it’s still a 6 week lead time for you order.

The Ps2 was sold out for months and getting an XBox 360 was incredibly difficult too. The PS3 was pretty hard to get as well, but when initial public perception was off about it, the sales slowed down.

Nope. No company wants to have people want a product and not actually sell it to them. I have an. Comment up above about why this happens with Nintendo consoles. It happens with every console, actually. But when Nintendo makes a hit, they hit it out of the park. Everybody wants one, and there’s a plethora of reasons…

If you can’t sell the product to a customer who wants it, that’s a problems. Without question. And they didn’t mess up. There’s only so many they could build before selling it. This becomes less of a problem as manufacturing becomes easier with scale and experience. If you want to know a little more about It, check my…

The mini-NES was a fluke. This, instead is just an issue of demand outrunning supply. Building a new product is really hard you can’t just start at full speed because most of them will end up with issues. See, production increases over time as the practice of how to build them becomes more set in stone, people become…

Of course there’s a reason for people to have that job and stuff. But my learning to do this was at least prompted by my desire to be able to provide myself with whatever I needed. It’s saved me money. Maybe wouldn’t for you. If someone who sucks at cooking tried to learn and burnt all their food, forcing themselves…

Eh, I built the media console in our home for, raw parts, $45. It’s a bit like cooking tho, getting all the pieces over time is an investment, but there’s savings on the backend.

I have seen so many stories like this. Here’s a tip my father gave me: ‘put 10% of your income every month, off the top, into savings. Live frugally so when the time comes, you can ALWAYS take the backend profits option’

Thank god a clear and concise recognition over the fact that people can say whatever they want, but must understand that others are free to exercise their disapproval of these feelings. Playtonic does not have an obligation, like the American government has towards legitimate press, to respect Jon’s point of view. If…

With something like this, it’s not about the strength of the hardware, but the complexity of its basic programming and building.

True, but luckily, there was so little VC in the past, and it made so little sense with the terrible quality of emulation that a lot of people (the majority, not the minority like myself and maybe some others) might never have got a VC game.

Actually, most likely not. The launch lineup is not as bad as you might want to believe, there is a strategy of Nintendo to support the console with weekly updates to the store, there’s still the VC which could be a major push and to add to all of that, there’s a ton of regular (read: non gamers) like my sister and…

Production of physical goods takes a long time and a lot of money to get to high output. As well, November is not the only time people spend money. This was a very smart move on their part because the people who choose to hold out, or get it for a family member or something along those lines will be able to find one…

The beauty of this conversation is, I (along with many other people) have deemed this system to be worth the cost to us. That is absolutely subjective. As is enjoyment of the system. After the amount of time it has been out, I continue to be pleased by the console and have literally no buyers remorse (which, for…

I was just gonna say this.