You bring up a good point, one I intentionally left out of my initial article. Nintendo never said the NES Classic Mini was to be mass produced. That is rumor and people misunderstanding what was happening. I do think they missed an opportunity to at least do a larger run later, based on the demand. I understand they did do at least one more run of the plug and play prior to discontinuing it completely but that also was quite insufficient for demand.
I agree, stores should have a strict one unit per customer policy. They have no problem doing this during Black Friday sales - why is something that they will know will be in high demand such as these things any different?
I have heard of various stores allowing employees to purchase units prior to even giving the customer a chance. This screws customers out of a chance to get it, let alone more than one unit each.
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