A Few Super Smash Bros Ultimate Amiibo Are Available Again
Some Super Smash Bros Ultimate amiibo are back in stock at Best Buy.
As reported by The Gamer, Best Buy has relisted Super Smash Bros Ultimate amiibo for Terry Bogard, Banjo-Kazooie, and Joker, AKA Ren Amamiya from Persona 5.
All three amiibo are based on DLC characters that were released months after the main game. Other DLC characters include Piranha Plant, the Hero from the Dragon Quest series, also known as Luminary, and Byleth from Fire Emblem: Three Houses.
These amiibo in particular are notable, as it is possible that they will also see reissues in the coming months.
A few months ago, there was a rumor of a bigger mass rerelease of amiibo that would have started November. Since that didn’t come to pass, that means this rumor is effectively debunked. But it does point to something interesting about amiibo collectors.
The mass restock amiibo rumor seems to have been preying on the collector sentiment that Nintendo has to keep amiibo well stocked, so that collectors can have easy access to them, and should have the easiest path to completing their collections.
While Nintendo generally has an incentive to keep their customers happy, they aren’t likely to keep amiibo in constant resupply if there isn’t a real market demand for them. Nintendo was once a toy company, but they shifted onto video games around the time that Mattel saw their He-Man toy business, and Coleco with their Cabbage Patch Kids, reach their peak, and then spontaneously combust, in a matter of years. Let’s talk about that for a bit.
Mattel treated their toy business like a get rich quick scheme, and just made as many toys as they could. They pushed new lines of toys too quickly for children and their parents to catch up to. Eventually, they found it
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