The Nintendo Amiibo Discussion Thread - Page 82

toxicatom5 · #**811** 06-19-2015, 02:02 AM

I think Nintendo is following this path with Amiibo too, Iwatasan. Let's face it, Nintendo has a lot of resources. If they wanted to mass produce them all it could be done in a heartbeat. Instead they are drip feeding the market with reprints of certain Amiibo. A little bit at a time until they reach that balance of supply and demand that keeps interest high. This isn't new for Nintendo, just look at the way they controlled supply of the Wii. It wasn't readily available in stores for almost a year. They know how to keep the hype going....and we love them for it.

KnightOfTruth · #**812** 06-19-2015, 02:17 PM

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Ha! Yeah I did hear that story a while back on the radio and sat there thinking the whole time how relevant it was to amiibos.

With amiibo cards coming out now it's more relevant than ever.

The gist of it as I remember is that the manufacturer became aware of how expensive this one special card had become on the secondhand market, and they realized right then and there that they had to make a decision between: doing nothing about it and allowing hype (and short term riches) to build around outrageous resale prices until their then-new game turned into a flash-in-the-pan fad; OR they could start printing more of the Black Lotus, keeping a close eye on the secondhand market until supply and demand naturally brought down the price to something like $25 instead of $1,000. They choose to do the latter, which was obviously the right choice in the long run since MTG has been around for a long time now and is still successful and popular today.

Yeah I used to collect MTG. Had 3 or 4 complete sets of some of the rarer editions too! I remember finding a guy at a local flea market that I swear he took the common cards out of his packs and put the rare ones in. EVERY SINGLE weekend I would find 2-5 rare cards when I purchased a few of his packs. I never got a Black Lotus because Beta wasn't one of the editions I was trying to complete (though I DID have a complete "Revised" edition or "3rd Edition" set and nearly a complete "Dark" edition iirc). The total worth at THAT time was well over $10,000 for all my cards.

I don't necessarily mind the extremely rare cards being in a set like that as long as there's a CHANCE that a reasonable collector could get one (unlike say, the Kid Icarus cards that NOA never sold to the regular public or the one rare cards that was only available in one place at one night and as a tournament prize). Fooey on that!

0329liuken · #**813** 06-19-2015, 02:19 PM

There are too many of them... I can't keep track of them easily by myself like before... And they took so much space...

At least I have all of them available so far...

KnightOfTruth · #**814** 06-19-2015, 08:19 PM

Disaster strikes again! This time, it seems like the poor yarn Yoshi bundles have been toasted while en route to France. :'(

eternix · #**815** 06-19-2015, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by KnightOfTruth

Disaster strikes again! This time, it seems like the poor yarn Yoshi bundles have been toasted while en route to France. :'(

That's a shame....

vhal_x · #**816** 06-19-2015, 10:24 PM

I think this is all a ploy by Nintendo to even further increase the scarcity and shit. I mean, I know they'll do restocks eventually but weird how all the amiibos are super hard to come by at first... fishy x