Greninja Amiibo is a Toys R Us exclusive, sold out in 30 minutes.
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Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
I still feel the real issue here is that Nintendo is afraid of losing money. The jillions of Amiibo sales they've been touting are coming from the simple, common Amiibo figures that are overstocked and sitting on store shelves. There's plenty of supply of those. They don't have to create an artificial mania to move them.
However, as luck would have it, a large percentage of the more niche fan favorite characters are less simplistic designs than Mario, Pikachu, and Kirby. They are intricate and more costly to manufacture, and Nintendo is under-printing virtually every complex character except for Bowser, who is a mainstay of Mario and therefore earns extensive exposure.
The result is that figures meant to be low priced, fun toys for Smash Bros. have become exclusive speculator's collectibles snapped up immediately to be kept mint in box or socked away in cases for future profit. Fans like to say that panic Nintendo is best Nintendo, but this is the dark side of panic Nintendo: they close the pursestrings and become very stingy, with low print runs for retail games, cheaper marketing like Nintendo direct, and undersupplying merchandise.
However, as luck would have it, a large percentage of the more niche fan favorite characters are less simplistic designs than Mario, Pikachu, and Kirby. They are intricate and more costly to manufacture, and Nintendo is under-printing virtually every complex character except for Bowser, who is a mainstay of Mario and therefore earns extensive exposure.
The result is that figures meant to be low priced, fun toys for Smash Bros. have become exclusive speculator's collectibles snapped up immediately to be kept mint in box or socked away in cases for future profit. Fans like to say that panic Nintendo is best Nintendo, but this is the dark side of panic Nintendo: they close the pursestrings and become very stingy, with low print runs for retail games, cheaper marketing like Nintendo direct, and undersupplying merchandise.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Check Ebay.
Hero Prinny
Member
I care, I like greninja. But lucky for me I got up to get some water in the middle of the night and just as I was about to go back to sleep greninja went up. Was lucky enough to grab greninja but couldn't get Lucina and Robin
Forearm Star
Member
Was originally interested in snagging some as small collectors items, but have since given up.
Just the amount of disappointment and anger coming from some of these threads. It's a shame, if they flooded the market with them they'd still sell.
Just the amount of disappointment and anger coming from some of these threads. It's a shame, if they flooded the market with them they'd still sell.
Pyrrhus
Member
I think so too. Everything moves faster now.
protomouse
Member
Y'all should come to Sweden. The only fully booked one I've come across is Ness.
They still haven't went up for preorder on Amazon or Wal-Mart online yet, so that's probably your best bet. But as the former reply said, I wouldn't worry a lot about getting him. There's been several instances where a character seemed rare and hard to get, but a few weeks later were pretty much everywhere. That's what happened with the other 3rd party characters of Sonic and Megaman, so even if you can't find one immediately or for pre-order, watch until mid-June-ish and you'll probably be able to find one, no problem.
Really, despite all the pessimism that surrounds amiibo, if a character is pretty popular or from a well known franchise, they haven't been hard to get with the exceptions of store exclusive ones that just seem like a pain in the ass all around.
SolarMystic
Member
Nintendo has botched this whole amiibo side busines. Pathetic really. I'd love to give Nintendo money for many of these figures, just not worth it to me though when they can sell out in seconds.
DriftedPlanet
Unconfirmed Member
Yup. I'm so glad that I decided to wait things out initially; once I saw how understocked they are I decided not to try.
Though I do feel for everyone frustrated by low stock, scalpers, and Nintendo's lack of response to fans about both.
outunderthestars
Banned
It would be boring if everyone could get what they want. This makes it interesting >
You clearly didn't spend up to 3 hours standing in line at GameStop only to be turned away without getting the Amiibo you wanted.
It would be boring if everyone could get what they want. This makes it interesting >
I feel this is sarcastic but I agree. I've definitely taken a back seat as the crazy ramps up and I kinda like it from the peanut gallery. It's been fun to watch the meltdowns.
It would be boring if everyone could get what they want. This makes it interesting >
Not in the slightest. Considering there's only been one character I wanted, I don't find tracking it down entertaining at all.
Furfuryl Furforate
Banned
This is about the only amiibo I want yet I can't for the life of me find where and when it will go up for preorder in germany/austria
ChanDangle
Member
Y'all hating because nintendo is trying to make a buck. If other companies willing to pay to help keep them afloat, why not?
It would be boring if everyone could get what they want. This makes it interesting >
:lol
the fuck?
KirbYuuYuu
Member
Lmfao
Woke up to pee and missed it , its 4:53 am on a Friday morning
For those complaining about GameStop at least they gave everyone a chance in store , broken servers and all
I pray Mr game and watch x ROB x duck hunt aren't exclusives :/
I don't see how it's much of a chance if being first or even second in line isn't fast enough to get what you want.
Nevermind people with jobs to handle. Or my time zone in general.
GregLombardi
Member
The funny thing is that they didn't botch it at all. The minute you see a rare Amiibo in the wild, do you honestly think you won't purchase it?
I will.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
I don't see it on the Canadian website?
There's still hope right?
There's still hope right?
I semi gave up at this point, if I get lucky and trip and fall over the ones I want, that's cool. Otherwise? Whatever.
Wanted Lucina and possibly Greninja but... Oh well.
They need to stop this "exclusive" shit, though. It's pretty dumb at this point. I didn't kike it when other companies did it for DLC, and I don't like it for this.
Ice cold
....but true
Wanted Lucina and possibly Greninja but... Oh well.
They need to stop this "exclusive" shit, though. It's pretty dumb at this point. I didn't kike it when other companies did it for DLC, and I don't like it for this.
Ice cold
....but true
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
I hope Ganondorf won't be difficult to obtain. :/
They seem to be going with the Mondo Print method. As much as it sucks, it sort of makes sense from a business standpoint - at least in terms of prolonging demand. It's hard to say whether Nintendo would sell more having limitless stock of each SKU, running the risk of people growing tired of the product, or artificially creating demand by having limited runs - making each SKU release an "event."
It has worked for Mondo and other artists/art galleries of that sort - so maybe it'll work for Nintendo too? It definitely weeds out those who aren't hardcore and 100% dedicated to their craft, but as far as preserving the long term health of the venture, it might not be a terrible idea.
It has worked for Mondo and other artists/art galleries of that sort - so maybe it'll work for Nintendo too? It definitely weeds out those who aren't hardcore and 100% dedicated to their craft, but as far as preserving the long term health of the venture, it might not be a terrible idea.
Japanmanx3
Member
The thought of people buying these out and not even owning a Wii U pisses me off so much!
entremet
Member
Because for all intents and purposes, the amount of Robin and Lucina amiibo being made combined are probably less than the amount of 1 exclusive.
DryEyeRelief
Member
An event? At three in the morning? For an item that was just revealed the prior day with no actual advertising campaign?
People are really reaching here.
Furfuryl Furforate
Banned
He's also incredible in game, proxy In addition to his incredibly varied moveset is just amazing.
I'm so glad I used the hidden trainer value exploit to get a legit (hexagon) 5 iv shiny Greninja.
I also a completely self bred shiny Greninja but it not only has torrent but also shit Iv
I have a feeling that yeah it's gonna work in the short term, but they are pissing off alot of the fanbase that actually purchases their products with this shit. What happens when all that's left are the scalpers buying Amiibo after everyone else gives up, cause I'm pretty sure those Scalpers aren't the ones buying their damn consoles or games. Honestly I'm done with Nintendo stuff for awhile, it's nice to know what they think of their fans though...
The fact they actually advertise this stuff in a direct when actual fans can't get it is a fucking joke
Crimsonclaw111
Member
I'm glad I quit caring about them. I only ever wanted my favorite Nintendo characters and I got them all thankfully.
That's literally what Mondo (http://mondotees.com) and most online Pop Culture art galleries do. They tell you a few days to a week in advance what the print is going to be, and that it's going to drop on X day at a random time between X and Y (Between 9am and 10am for example) - and then that's it. You have to camp the site and pray. Shit sells out in seconds.
DryEyeRelief
Member
Do they print a few initially then only have half available? Then two weeks later it becomes as common as a pigeon? Then it would be like amiibos
entremet
Member
Yeah. Smogon banned him lol.
He was really good in Smash before the damn nerfs. Freaking, Sakurai.
Natureboy99
Banned
Scalpathon. I talked with a Fred Meyer employee one time about Amiibos. He said he knew of a guy that hired runners to go to every store in the area on release day and buy out stock of the new characters. The news pretty much ruined any interest I had in trying to get a cool amiibo. Then I found nowinstock.net and I was able to order a mega man within minutes of it going up online. It will text or email you the moment it goes up on the store. I think the scalpers are using it too since it was gone about 10 minutes later.
Long story short, my amiibo hunt is over. I just got the one I wanted. My advice is to get out of the game since it's so hard to win against these guys. That our Nintendo needs to up the numbers on the non-Mario/Zelda/Kirby franchises.
Long story short, my amiibo hunt is over. I just got the one I wanted. My advice is to get out of the game since it's so hard to win against these guys. That our Nintendo needs to up the numbers on the non-Mario/Zelda/Kirby franchises.
BossLackey
Gold Member
Between these and Skylanders, Beanie Baby's are back in a bad way.
Effigenius
Member
fixed that for you.
Effigenius
Member
Oh really? Explain jiggly puff, villager and nes. Three of the simplest designs in the whole series.
Don't forget Villager!
Sometimes they have supposedly limited runs, and you reluctantly purchase one off Ebay at a marked up price thinking it's you're only means of getting one since it sold out, only to find out at a later date that there's a release consisting of artist proofs, a reprinting or private commission variants of said poster
Furfuryl Furforate
Banned
Smogon did, I thought they just elevated one of his builds to Uber, heard about Smash hopefully the announced tweaks will buff him again.
When I tried him in Smash 4 I was disappointed he mostly only has water moves, I used builds of him w/o any water moves.
Also mixed it up his hidden skill is protean not proxy
OrbitalBeard
Member
Yeah, I genuinely cannot wrap my head around The Villager's rarity. AC is one of Nintendo's most popular franchises currently.
SELL MORE BY SELLING LESS
What a brilliant strategy. You make money by not making money!
Come on people. When people are setting up stock reminders on websites like NowInStock and they STILL can't get their preorders, it is incompetence. Nothing else.
What a brilliant strategy. You make money by not making money!
Come on people. When people are setting up stock reminders on websites like NowInStock and they STILL can't get their preorders, it is incompetence. Nothing else.