<story><title>Nintendo to Double Production of Switch Console</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/nintendo-to-double-production-of-switch-console-1489728545</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcw303</author><text>Good. I&amp;#x27;m getting sick of walking into Bic Camera and asking the same question when I already know what the (disappointing) answer is going to be.&lt;p&gt;I get that they&amp;#x27;re a typical conservative Japanese company, they don&amp;#x27;t want to screw up inventory, blah blah blah, but it&amp;#x27;s getting annoying.&lt;p&gt;And slightly off topic, does anyone know what is up with the NES classic &amp;#x2F; Famicom mini? As far as I can tell that thing never restocked after launch.&lt;p&gt;You can see how it looks like Nintendo is majorly shooting themselves in the foot with these slow launches.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vhold</author><text>It wouldn&amp;#x27;t surprise me in the least if the Nintendo Classic is a device made out of the opportunity of some really cheap discontinued parts that were being totally liquidated and that&amp;#x27;s why they can&amp;#x27;t just easily increase manufacturing.&lt;p&gt;Edit: or possibly it was made out of a surplus of unused parts from other products.</text></comment>
<story><title>Nintendo to Double Production of Switch Console</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/nintendo-to-double-production-of-switch-console-1489728545</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcw303</author><text>Good. I&amp;#x27;m getting sick of walking into Bic Camera and asking the same question when I already know what the (disappointing) answer is going to be.&lt;p&gt;I get that they&amp;#x27;re a typical conservative Japanese company, they don&amp;#x27;t want to screw up inventory, blah blah blah, but it&amp;#x27;s getting annoying.&lt;p&gt;And slightly off topic, does anyone know what is up with the NES classic &amp;#x2F; Famicom mini? As far as I can tell that thing never restocked after launch.&lt;p&gt;You can see how it looks like Nintendo is majorly shooting themselves in the foot with these slow launches.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>verytrivial</author><text>Counterargument: Would Nintendo still exist today if it had speculatively doubled&amp;#x2F;trebled production of Wii U?</text></comment>