[quote name='confoosious']People thought this crap with the wii. It's simply not true.
Would Atlus rather you buy a $39.99 copy from them now or $60 from an ebay reseller? And then release some more later?
As long as it make sense to print/reprint, companies make as much as they can. Consumers are fickle, there's no point in meting out inventory little by little to create artificial demand. Especially when it's just a game. We're not talking diamonds here.[/QUOTE]
Kirin Lemon and I are of the same mindset: Atlus' uses questionable marketing techniques.
There's a difference between Nintendo and Atlus. Nintendo isn't know for having frequent supply scarcities. Atlus has long had a reputation for having games that become rare/hard to find, which is simply no longer true, but people still believe it. Just think about it, how often does Atlus send out "OMG! It's gonna be rare! Better pre order 10 copies now!!" emails/statements and how often do their games sell out, stay OOS for a while, and then come back in stock (regardless of whether its limited re-stock or a large re-stock)?
By creating a false sense of rarity, they can not only sell to the people who actually take an interest in these titles, but also to the large and growing segment of flippers and collectors. Yeah, they'll lose some money in the secondary market but they're also making more money by attracting re-sellers and collectors along with those who are actually interested in it.
Sure, they still have a few rare titles out there but the past 4-5 years, they've done more than their share of reprinting. I'm saying this as a long time Atlus fan too: I love that they take risks but I hate their marketing.
Besides, I'm betting that they will double dip with Devil Survivor 2 and release it as an updated version on the 3DS. And at that time, they'll probably reprint the original DS Overclocked because there will be pre-release hype for the series.
This might not have been a reprint but what's stopping them from trickling supply? If they sell out, they can slowly trickle out more and sell them at full price (because it would look really bad if decided to jack up the prices to eBay levels) because people will think the game is rare and buy all the copies. If they release the entire stock but don't sell out, nobody will think the game's going to rare, it'll sit on the shelves and then they'll have to discount the game.
Sorry, just my rant on this topic.
