https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yp5BpT96yo
tl;dw
>Nintendo is artificially limiting amiibo supply in the US to create more buzz and increase amiibo popularity to increase the install base for more people to sell amiibos to in the future
/v/ will defend Nintendo for this
/v/ will still buy amiibos knowing Nintendo is using them as a puppet
I thought people already knew this
>>334635751
This is your video, isn't it?
>Implying people didn't know this the moment it happened, same with Wii consoles
And now Amiibos are in abundance so it doesn't even matter.
>game theory
fuck off
>Implying people still care about amiibo
>Implying NoA's management didn't change overtime
>Implying MatPat isn't a faggot
amiibo a shit though
>>334635751
No shit sherlock
They are limiting Wii U supplies and creating shortages so people are prepared for the NX.
That's a really fucking clever business strategy. It's nice to know that some companies still have business sense.
Also GameTheory is bullshit and isn't welcomed here Matt.
>>334635751
>He posted a Game Theory video
You couldn't possibly be a bigger faggot
>Gay Theory
It's probably true, but still.
>>334635863
>And now Amiibos are in abundance so it doesn't even matter.
WFT still costs $30
Wow, really?
I never would've thought of something so obvious.
>>334635751
Everyone knows.
Anybody trying to sell you something is using you as a puppet.
Why are you so smart?
>>334635982
>/v/ regularly sucks each other's cocks over ecelebs
>getting triggered by gametheory
haha oh wow
he seriously made this today?? Fucking Game Theory is shit. They've fixed the amiibo shortage, it's pretty easy to get amiibo now without paying out the ass or getting them from Japan.
>>334635991
Yeah, remember when Donkey Kong Country was actually about a war in the carribean and Mario was a communist?
>>334635908
People still care about amiibo
Specially women, i know this Mexican girl who owns basically every Amiibo released so far
>>334636082
Seems like you're triggered at people disliking it. Why do you enjoy such garbage?
>>334636096
Rare amiibos can still cost 2x, 3x, or even 4x what they're supposed to cost
that's not "fixed"
what are you talking about? the amiibo shortages are over already, you can find any amiibo right now
Nintendo seems to just be stocking more recent amiibo plentifully while forgetting the old ones even exist. Wave 1 and 4 specifically.
Wario has not come back in stock and hes never getting a normal Mario version figure. Whats the fucking excuse?
>>334636096
They "fixed" the shortage for normal Amiibos
Rare ones are still hard and expensive to find.
>>334635996
She's the same price as the rest in Yurop.
>>334636198
It was never a problem about finding amiibos. The problem was the markup, and the markups are still around.
>>334635751
BUT HEY
>>334636303
She's $17 in AU/EU/JP, $30 in the US. Just checked.
>>334636191
>>334636294
most of the rare ones have been reprinted.
I just want the smash ones and then I'm done.
>>334636438
What are you not getting? It's not about not being able to find them. It's about the small supply increasing the prices. Some amiibos are $30 or $40 because of this.
>>334636439
What happens if they start releasing alt. costume Smash ones?
They technically already have with ROB so far.
>>334636294
where are you fucking looking? Amazon? they barely even sell the normal ones there is because of the fucking store you are searching.
>>334636550
The only expensive ones I've seen are the Gold/Silver ones, which are supposed to be rare collectables anyway.
>>334636628
I'll get girl Robin and Corrin. I figure if they ever do release them then it'll be after Cloud, male Corrin, and Bayo
>>334635751
except that amiibos are at a low in sales
hell I can go to gamestop and pick up a Roy right now, but I couldn't get a Robin when a friend and I sat in front of toys r us for 5 hours
>>334635751
Problem with this strategy is that you can over do it.
I'd you go to far with it you just piss off your fan base and consumers, at which point they walk up to your competition and hand them money.
Look at the Rift, with each new wave of bad news people cancel orders and move to Vive.
>Samus vs Zero Suit Samus
Please tell me Samus is winning in sales
>>334635751
Did you really think there were any other reason? Those are mass produced plastic toys, they could shit out 1 million of each in a week in a chinese factory.
>game theory
>>334635751
>Nintendo is artificially shipping low numbers of Amiibo
Welcome to one year and a half ago.
>>334636550
That's not money that Nintendo is getting, so why would they bother limiting supply?
>>334637114
>Smashfags not eating up anything ZSS shit related
top kek, i hope you remember that Brawl made the ZS redesign "popular"
>>334635751
>game theory
Thread is dead on arrival
>>334637114
>secondary-as-fuck amiibo manchildren
>having the metroid taste
good thing Nintendo doesn't judge everything through sakurai fanfiction, or we'd have a Duck Hunt/F-Zero reboot by now.
>>334635751
>still no Lucina, Robin, Rosalina or Palutena reprints
>>334637114
she likely isn't but it's nothing to worry about
>>334640329
But I'm not a Smash fan, I'm a Metroid fan hoping Power Suit Samus is selling better that way Nintendo can bury the Zero Suit and focus on making a proper Metroid without the Zero Suit. Smash really doesn't mean shit to me. I just want the Zero Suit gone. So please tell me which one is selling better?
>>334640712
>Zero Suit beating Power Suit
Oh boy, I don't know what this means for Metroid but I don't think it's good.
>>334640735
nigga it's a SMASH series amiibo
do you really think that shit is going anywhere? the latter is likely selling more because smash fans can't get enough of the pisspoor fanart.
>>334640895
fuck off F-Zeronigger
>>334641046
1. I can careless about F-Zero
2. It may be Smash but the last time that bitch became popular we got Other M, so I should be worried that Smash will ruin another Metroid in some way or forms to please those weird faggots.
Does this autist talk like that normally or is it just an act?
>cuc︎k theory
>>334641827
More likely an act
Several Youtubers speak like retards so retards create empathy with them
>>334635751
>Business is trying to make money
STOP THE PRESSES
>>334635973
>any other company does it
>WOW THIS IS GARBAGE FUCK CAPITALISM
>Nintendo does it
>you know this is actually smart, bravo Nintendo. My hat off to you!
IT'S
>>334635894
/thread
>>334635751
>Look at this Business using marketing tactics for a profit!
Grow up already you fuckin man child
>>334642013
>any other company does it
>[*no dedicated threads on /v/*]
>Nintendo does it
>LET'S WATCH GAY THEORY! HE'S SO RIGHT!
>>334635751
As far as the Smash line is concerned, I always just attributed it to the fact that many of the characters aren't really that popular or mainstream enough.
Like, how many little kids are gonna want a amiibo of Lucina, Robin, Palutena, etc? I reckon they probably didn't want to use the money to produce a truckload of figures based on niche characters that not many people will buy.
>>334642908
Gay Theory is actually defending Nintendo
But obviously, retards won't bother watching the video
Economics major here
Mat is wrong as usual. Supply / demand isn't a complicated thing to understand. If they charged like $20 for amiibos and procuded more of them for the US, they would be swimming in money. Nintendo just can't into business (which is why they're losing money at a pretty exponential rate)
>>334641351
>1. I can careless about F-Zero
okay listen
F-Zero fans have this stupid fears about Smash shape shifting franchises for sake of a exclusive fad that was only popular for one gen before it got bunked down.
i do not see any where in Star Fox Zero where Fox is waveshining all over the place and going into a secret dimension level that actually an embodiment of the No Item Only Fox FD meme.
i do not see any fucking spinoff games of Rosalina or Bowser Jr. themselves outside bitter Daisyfag bickering.
i do not see FE, XB, or KI replacing franchises nor outselling them like Donkey Kong for example
there have been zero talks about making Duck Hunt into a collect-a-thon because how Sakurai and his team design him exclusively for Smash and Banjofags thought he was an expy to it
there have been one mention, ONE, mention of the Ridley's 2big meme, but it's Treehouse meme antics again
it's all nothing but Chicken Little shit made up due to the idea of not having a proper game anymore and how modern Nintendo is fucking up now-a-days.
>2. It may be Smash but the last time that bitch became popular we got Other M, so I should be worried that Smash will ruin another Metroid in some way or forms to please those weird faggots.
and shitty ol' Other M came to be an (failed) by Sakamoto on if Japan enjoys Metroid as well and an attempt to bring together 2D Metroid and Prime Metroid as one single "ultimate Metroid" game
Other M DID NOT exist because of Smash retards being obsessed with a character than "personally" main.
>>334643203
I smell bullshit too with Game Theory
They are saying that Nintendo are selling Amiibos well below their price causing shortages
I think that Amiibos are still overpriced (20$) when they should be like 10 or 15$ at best.
>>334642013
>>334643153
funny GayTheory was shitting on Nintendo just a year ago over if WiiU was going to be VB2.0 and if gamurrs were being homophobic
>>334643425
>f WiiU was going to be VB2.0
They never said that, they were just comparing Virtual Boy and Wii U and both share shocking similaritesBoth are shit
>>334643370
They are 13$
Who gives a shit? Most of us just bite the bullet and either preorder them or buy them from other countries. Importing an amiibo was always fuck cheaper than dealing with reseller scum, not to mention that anyone who thinks that tiny ass Nintendo can stock every Walmart, Game Stop, and Best Buy with 50 of each amiibo is a fucking idiot.
Did Nintendo purposefully limit stock? Probably; because America's fucking huge and the people who actually wanted them got them when they could.
Americans are such entitled shits; you fucking have three goddamn toy-to-life series, you hate the shit out of thme for being gimmicks, you tripley hate the Nintendo ones because fuck Nintendo, but as soon as you can't get one, you scream at the top of your fucking lungs that it's unfair that you can't have it.
>>334643863
Really?
I have seen them usually between 20$-25$
>>334636265
Wait, that first picture with the Sonicos was mine. How did it get here?
>>334635751
Welcome to a year ago. The problem has also been fixed, it's easy to get any new amiibo coming out.
>>334643927
13$ is the MSRP.
>>334644183
Now if only they would make a single amiibo worth buying
>>334644465
Just buy amiibo of your favorite characters.
They're worthless but look decent enough.
>>334643203
$20 would be to much. But yes, if they produced more after the original shortages, they'd be swimming in money. But part of the reason they were in such high demand was because of the shortages. Now that they're actually flooding the market, the prices for most of them have leveled out.
>>334635751
>unironically posting a clickbait video
I bought a falco amiibo today
>that voice
What an annoying faggot, how does he have this many subscribers?
>>334635751
>intro is longer than 5 seconds
Too long; didn't watch
What's the theory?
>There's so many amiibo, I literally got 3 of them for $20 today at Target
Man, that evil Gookike Nintendo, amirite? It's not like there was a port strike AND a huge winter storm the year Amiibo first came out or anything.
>>334635751
>artificial shortages
They've been historically notorious for doing this. The one time they didn't do it, with the Wii U, they had a monumental console flop.
>>334645047
Nintendo didn't flood America with amiibo like Activision and Disney did with thier figures, so they're an evil business that wanted nintencucks to pay top dollar from resellers, because that's how businesses work.
>It's just a Theory
>A Conspiracy theory
Are we aloud to post Jesse Ventura threads as well
![tumblr_nhk7oiYxmy1qzp9weo3_500[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/BmJaxu0.gif "tumblr_nhk7oiYxmy1qzp9weo3_500[1].gif")
>video about amiibo shortages and scalping
>neither of which have been a widespread problem since almost a year ago
>>334643203
They have been before they amiibos were even shipped. They are still trying to pay off expenses from making Majora's Mask.
>they never came out with Mario Party DK and Wario amiibo because the game was such shit
fug man, those were the only characters I wanted, and the only versions too, fuck the smash ones
plus those are rare as fuck to find in stores now
>>334645968
I'm still holding out for them to make a classic Wario amiibo if they make an new, non wario ware game.
I figured people already knew this. The main problem now is that they're not making any new amiibos for characters that don't have one yet (still missing characters that I would actually want) and they haven't reprinted some of the missing ones or printed out non-Smash designs for some characters. It just feels like they're slowing down drastically on them.
>>334635751
no shit sherlock
>>334643065
And yet Lucas, out of all of them, has been in stock and available on shelves for months after he came out.
>>334645968
I'm not sure how they're getting away with pumping out so damn many Animal Crossing amiibo considering Amiibo Festival was even more shit.
>>334635863
I still can't find Megaman for regular price
Welcome to a year ago. It's been a while since they even released any new ones
>>334635908
>amiibo a shit though
Enjoy no merchandice for characters like ness or falcon ever.
Cool, a nerd, aka OP, preaching to the choir
Do you have anything new to say, slowpoke
