I can’t even have this argument anymore.

I just don’t understand why they didn’t do a better job of getting it on shelves before the Switch came out. It’s a cheap little Android thing — they should have been able to crank out a bajillion of them.

Must be regionally spotty, then. There are just flies buzzing around the Nintendo aisle at my local Best Buy.

“and we’re still waiting for some really cool additional third-party peripherals the Nintendo Switch to hit stores”

Yeah. It sold decently. And lord knows I love the hell out of mine.

I think it’s going to pull even with the Gamecube, and that’s about it.

Nintendo never should have started this timeline nonsense to begin with.

Diamonds aren’t video game consoles.

But what “high price point” are you imagining? It’s not like they’re selling through the initial stock at $500 a pop, and plan on dropping it down to normal in six months. What you are suggesting is something that *can* happen, but is clearly not happening in this case.

Artificial scarcity works well with collectibles (like amiibo, and the brands you mentioned) because it creates a sense that each one is unique and needs to be nabbed now before you lose the chance. The shortage of Action Figure A results in more purchases of B, C, and D.

Ummm... right.

You could flip that logic the other way, though.

Ha -- now *that* would be clever.

Yeah... but they are *really* *really* incompetent.

It’s not a coincidence. Nintendo is just completely inept.

Again with this. What you are suggesting literally makes no sense.

This. There’s a reason that Wind Waker looks timeless.

You can’t possibly compare the tenuous position that FE was in (before Awakening was a smash) to the globally-adored Zelda franchise.

This really isn’t a surprise.

Wow. You started out making pretty solid points, until you went full-tilt conspiracy screwball on the Jimmy Kimmel stuff.