Swedish retailer confirms Nintendo distributor is scalping the SNES Classic Edition

Yesterday NintendoSoup reported how customers living in Nordic countries were getting screwed by greedy Nintendo distributors scalping the SNES Classic at the wholesale level. Some people remain skeptical and are convinced the abnormal large markup comes from the retailers themselves.

[Jaypi03]

This is really disappointing, Nintendo needs to crack down and sell these things from their own website.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Damn this sucks

[Servbot41]

Big surprise. Nintendo would have been smart to just allow preorders, one per person, and then manufacture that number of SNES classics plus a few more for shelves. Scalpers would get screwed, everyone who wants one would have gotten one. Simple.

[fenome]

That's a good way to go about it. Why not just mass produce them though, I mean there's obviously a demand for it.

It's just a cheap emulator, there's no reason they couldn't just mass produce it and sell them by the thousands, it makes no sense to me. They're just letting scalpers rush in and gain huge profits while they're cool with just selling a limited supply, it's a weird business move to me. You'd think after seeing what happened with the NES Classic they'd just call it a collector's edition and sell them higher or something.

[Gemmol]

Only problem with your thought, Nintendo owns zero factories, while sony and Microsoft own several so they never get hampered, Nintendo on other hand have to wait on these factories to make all their products

[fenome]

Good point. They have billions of dollars in assets though, so who's fault is that?

Edit:

My phone screwed up before I was finished with my first comment and now after reading your reply it looks like a stealth edit but it wasn't. Lol

I always try to clarify my edits, unless it's just grammatical errors :p

[conanlifts]

@ gemmol. Yes Nintendo own no factories but they could. Their market value recently passed Sony's value. They are not a small company. They currently rank 1033 in the global company rankings.

[conanlifts]

At a minimum they should produce double the number of snes classics compared to the nes classic and make this quantity available in the first month.

[NotAfanBoyy]

Nintendont!!!!!

[LastCenturyRob]

With how Nintendo handled the NES classic edition, Switch and now the SNES classic, they can go "F" themselves! Not spending a dime on a company that has zero respect for its consumers.

[rocketpanda]

This was unfortunately to be expected. Judging from their past experiences in distribution they have become a joke handling these things. They couldn't even handle distributing Amiibos correctly, small little plastic figures ffs!

I reckon this is just the tip, other regions are will experience the same BS....again.

[MultiConsoleGamer]

Nintendo won't do a damn thing. If you know the real reason why they made the Mini Classics line then you'll understand what I'm saying. They're happy for this kind of press. They want sell out hysteria all over the place.

[rainslacker]

All these companies have contracts with distributors to prevent this. What they're doing, if it's true, can actually lose them their contracts with Nitendo, or allow Nintendo to pursue legal action to cause them a financial loss. Retailers have to sign these same agreements, particularly in the US and UK. Most EU countries are allowed to set their own price though. So things like this should only be able to happen in countries where retailers can set their own price.

Nintendo of all the console makers out there are actually quite stringent on retail outlets or resellers abiding by their resellers agreements. I'd imagine it's even more stringent for the distributors.

[conanlifts]

Nintendo should step in if the distributor is doing this. They should sell them stock only if they keep price to a certain level. Otherwise deny them stock and redivert it to international sellers like Amazon .