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Nintendo Accused of Limiting Amiibo Supply
Cordova, TN; September 18, in the year of our Lord
2015--Family Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in
covering the family friendly video games is acknowledging the
plethora of complaints that Nintendo is yet again back to their
bad habit of limiting supply of their products to increase
demand, and keep prices high. There were numerous complaints of
this during the first couple of years the Wii was being sold.
Nintendo has not been known to be the most ethical of companies.
In fact they been fined and punished for violations of the law.
They have lost patent law suits for infringing upon the rights
of others. Nintendo has a squeaky clean image in terms of most
of the games they publish. The image of the business is
something else entirely.
Nintendo has billions in the bank. So they make money. They have
been accused of fleecing customers with high prices. They have
also been accused of purposely keeping supply low of their
products to increase the demand, and keep the prices high.
Amiibos have been out for close to a year now. Nintendo has not
improved their process in this almost year. Why is that? Why
doesn’t Nintendo ramp up supplies? They don’t seem to be trying
to put more of the sold out products on the market. Why not?
Obviously it is not in their self interest. Don’t they realize
it hurts their public image? Kind of like the New England
Patriots in a new cheating scandal. Nintendo should be doing
everything possible to move away from the accusations that they
are limiting the supply of Amiibos.
Yet we see the same old story from Nintendo. Whether it is
accusations of their discriminating against Christians,
participating in unethical business practices, or purposely
limiting supply to increase demand and keep prices high;
Nintendo keeps on trucking. It is like they don’t care how bad
their image is as a company. They ignore what anyone says about
them. Even when it is a judge that finds them guilty. Plenty of
voices have offered Nintendo really good advice on how to
improve their image. They ignore all of those voices too. What
makes no sense to me is Nintendo could make more money if they
released more of the sold out Amiibos. If you knew you had
definite sales why would you turn them away?
God bless,
Paul Bury
Family Friendly Gaming