 Hey everyone, I am Nathaniel Ruffal-Janez from Nintendo Prime and I'm on camera Let me know what you think about that But beyond that today I want to talk about an interesting situation that happened with GameStop and ThinkGeek and believe it or not the NES Classic Edition So at some point today earlier today after I made my initial video the NES Classic Edition went up for order in bundles on ThinkGeek.com and to be clear GameStop owns ThinkGeek, so full transparency GameStop and ThinkGeek same company and The idea that it's being sold in the bundle isn't new I mean come on they've been selling Nintendo Switch bundles since like what a week after launch And magically they always seem to find stock for those bundles But they can't seem to get stock of just a normal console, especially online And even in stores they seem to be pushing the bundles But the reason I want to talk about this is that this something happened here that seems insane to me How does ThinkGeek slash GameStop have NES Classic Editions in the end of July? To sell when they went out of production like three four months ago. I Mean this thing went out of production the month though Oh, I'm sorry that we do the month the Nintendo Switch launched it went out of production How the heck does GameStop so I think you have Stock of this to even bundle in the first place. I understand why you would bundle it But but how do you even have the stock to do it? The only thing I could think of is that GameStop the parent company Purposely held back stock of the NES Classic Edition to fulfill these orders and to Create these bundles where they make more money than they would off-selling the unit on its own And we know that GameStop makes these bundles all the time I just gave an example for Switch they did it for Wii U They did it for PlayStation 4 and Xbox one and 3DS. They always do it for the hot button items at the time, but How can they even get away with this like like is this gonna be start becoming a regular practice with the SNES Classic coming out our retailers gonna start holding back units that are sent to them Waiting for the unit to go out of production so they can bundle it together with other items and create a more expensive end product But ultimately a more profitable endeavor for the company selling them. I mean This is something that almost feel like this is not the fault of Nintendo But Nintendo almost needs to get on the phone with them and let them know this is not okay You can't be holding back stock to resell or sell at a later date. We don't make the item anymore it's extremely anti-consumer and It's easy to make that argument for their switch bundles as well The caveat with the switch bundles is that we know they're still releasing more switches And we don't eventually you'll be able to get a hold of these switches outside of those bundles Whereas the NES Classic Edition is done. I mean, they're not making it anymore. It is finito I mean, maybe they'll bring it back again in 10 years. I don't know but right now they're not making any more of them They're working on the SNES Classic Edition and now we had to be scared that GameStop is going to do this And it pains me to talk negatively about GameStop and I've talked about this briefly in the past because my local GameStop stores There's two of them. There's one up in Eau Claire or down in Eau Claire and then there's one closer to me in Halley and They have pretty much excellent management and fairly good staff. I Don't think I've even had one What I would call it negative consumer experience in those stores never felt like someone was being pushed to me That shouldn't be or felt bad about games being opened or whatever the case of all the negative stories You hear about their game stuff. I haven't experienced those at my local stores I have experienced them at the storm all of America over in Minnesota, but I personally haven't experienced it So it pains me when these negative stories come up But just because I like the employees just like I like some of the staff at Nintendo and I like some of Nintendo's products Doesn't mean that I'm not going to point out issues when they arise and this is an issue and this issue directly affects Nintendo fans and It's it's pretty much BS It's bullshit that they held back units to selling these more expensive bundles Months after the device is no longer to be made now. It would be different if these were being advertised as Resales like if people sold them back their NES classics for cash or whatever the case may be and They're reselling them as a used or refurbished product That's different GameStop at that point could do whatever they want with the product Just like a pawn shop can do whatever it wants with it Just like if my buddy if I sold an NES classic to my buddy He could do whatever he wants with it, but this here we're talking about We're talking about brand new units. They're being advertised as brand new not not refreshers not refurbished not used Brand new copies of the hand. Oh I can't believe anything is they're gonna get away with it at least this time Maybe Nintendo will get on the phone and shame on you you shouldn't do that But ultimately Nintendo got their money for the units anyways, so Nintendo's probably not gonna do anything about it. This is just See I like making videos where I'm happy, right? I like to talk about how amazing the switch is and how great Splatoon 2 is and How excited I am, you know for Super Mario Odyssey? I want to talk positives, but man when BS happens I have to call it out I mean, do you think GameStop here's in the right that they have the right to do this? They obviously legally have the right because they're gonna get away with it But do you think that they have the right to do this? Do you think it's anti-consumer and I know a lot of you are GameStop and picketing and I understand that I totally understand no one should be blindly loyal to a giant corporate Entity and that includes us with Nintendo. We should not be blindly loyal to Nintendo as a company They exist to make money. They are a billion dollar company They didn't get to that million dollars by not making money Nintendo's about making money above everything else I know they make you think that they put things ahead of that But ultimately they are a business it is about making money and everything else goes to support the idea of making money So they're going to make dumb decisions like the voice chat on phones It happens they're doing it for business reasons that I try to understand at least even if I disagree with them but yeah, that's Man GameStop is really just Frustrating me and the sad thing is I know that the Xbox one X is gonna have pre-orders going up soon I've gotten some emails about it and I want a pre-order one But I would normally be pre-order at GameStop because that's my local game store I'm almost tempted to do it at Walmart now. I have a 24-hour Walmart so I could still pick it up in midnight but You know, it's not like Walmart's perfect either They do a whole bunch of shady stuff behind the scenes as well to keep their prices down child labor issues over in terrible countries that It's really hard to accept and in general electronics in general has issues with you know Child labor and unfair wages and slavery and all this stuff blood diamonds There's a lot of issues in the electronics field with where our products are coming from the parts inside it the metals and all that stuff, but Man, I am just I'm not happy. Let's just put it that way. I'm not pleased about this. No, I did not pick up one of these bundles Yes, I had a chance to get it and it would have been my chance to get an NES classic edition And I'm not trying to have like a spoiled brat like who cares that I don't have the NES classic edition at the end of the day It doesn't affect your life. It only affects mine and it affects my life like So little that it doesn't matter, but either way, this is really shady Yeah, that's all I got to say on this one Anyways folks, my name is Nathaniel Rufflejans from Nintendo Prime If you liked this video, you know what to do and if you disliked that video hit that dislike button Subscribe for more and as always folks, I will catch you in the next one