Re:Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in less than ...
by simonh on Saturday November 12, 2016 @05:09AM
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Suppose they contract with the manufacturer to set up 10 production lines to meet initial demand, what happens when demand drops in the New a Year and 'everyon' forgets these exist? They'll have to decommission most of the lines, which also has a cost. Also if they over-supply the initial surge of demand even a little, they could be stuck with months worth of tail end sales. Then what do they do? Decommission all the lines for that time? They'll have to pay for warehousing the product as well. There are a lot of factors to consider, it's not just a matter of magicing up however many units are needed at any given time.
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Re:Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in less than ...
by moyta on Saturday November 12, 2016 @01:42PM
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Have you looked at the teardown of what this product actually is? Its using a very cheap Allwinner chip inside a plastic case, a similar board can be had for $7[1]. I highly doubt Nintendo is producing much in house, they probably have PCB manufacturing and final assembly outsourced, there isn't much to this device[2] physically.
[1] - https://liliputing.com/2016/11/orange-pi-zero-7-quad-core-de...
[2] - http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/11/08/nintendo-nes-classic-...