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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
I haven’t read through all 40 pages so presumably this topic is covered but why does Nintendo hate making money so much?
This shouldn’t be this difficult to get one of these, it’s ridiculous. What are they making 1 / month?
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On the first release, Nintendo only ever planned to make a couple million because they needed something to try and stay relevant in the console space over a Christmas season where the WiiU was discontinued and the Switch had not yet released. They based their expectations of demand on what those Atari Flashback and Sega Flashback units do. Which is to say, passable but not outstanding. Nobody in Nintendo expected the NES Classic to be the hottest toy of that Christmas season. But by then, it was too late. Contracts were done, and production of Switch was ramping up.
They did much better with the SNES Classic - which is still reaching store shelves a year later. And the re-release of the NES has been trivially easy to find.