Hi Jason, love your work, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say you’ve been had. This is all fake. I’m not even going to write a fallback or safeguard in this comment. Just know I’ll be point my finger this E3 saying stop it wil al this baseless rumor nonsense.

First thing that came to my mind XD

I’m very satisfied, most notably to me is the “hybrid” aspect of it. Nintendo makes a point to call it a home console you can take on the go. And Breath of the Wild sure feels like it. What surprised me was mostly Bomberman and Puyo Puyo Tetris. The latter especially feels like a handheld game.

On the flip side, they could get the fangame on board for an official game a la Sonic Mania. The reason I think they don’t is that it’ll inspire an influx of new fangames, all which would have to be curated and monitored by Nintendo’s legal team. Something they may not have the capacity for.

Having avidly played the Splatfests including being on the winning team for that last one I gotta say, this is surprising and kinda sad.

Artifical scarcity created by downplaying production capacity. (Throughout this comment thread I noticed the people interpret artifical scarcity as keeping lots of boxes behind closed doors, I never considered that, I considered having less production capacity with the intent of creating demand.)

Artifical scarcity created by downplaying production capacity. (Throughout this comment thread I noticed the people interpret artifical scarcity as keeping lots of boxes behind closed doors, I never considered that, I considered having less production capacity with the intent of creating demand.)

Thing is, games coming out for 3DS have been in development for at least one year, likely two years and even more. What your seeing is the company strategy from before they knew the Switch was a hit.

While you’re not wrong I responded to peskRob who said “after buying a Switch”.

Full disclosure, I like Reggie.

Reggie’s delivery and his teleprompter reading at stage stuff are the only knocks I have on his person. Yes he does his job greatly. But the thing is, you see the job not the person. Compare Reggie to the late Iwata or Europe’s Shibata and you see men that are warm people first and their job-description second. With…

Well if you employ 100 factories. (yeah ludicrous, but it is possible).

Given all the replies I’ve had this afternoon (local time) I guess artificial scarcity is understood more often like you describe and not how I had it in mind XD.

XD, Nintendo won’t mind that either of course.

One week of amazing headlines with dozens of weeks of headlines following that are bad would be bad I guess. But the steady flow you see now is based on a particular decision on what the production capacity should be. In a nutshell Nintendo has done it’s factory shopping and decided on one or more factories that could…

Solid argument on the set prices, although that doesn’t apply to Europe, I don’t know about Japan though.

Well good luck this sunday. And if all else fails, just know that Belgium is our meatshield

Man I’ve dreamed this for a whole while and theres is one trilogy that needs this exact treatment more then any other:

Makes you wonder if people are getting Zelda in advance because they can’t get their Switch huh?

Man that would be nice. We’ll see, i’ve been surprised and delighted with Nintendo so many times now, that I’ll be fine either way.