Increasing Number Of Journalists Lashing Out Against Nintendo
Whatever good feelings Nintendo had generated from their latest goody-bag-filled Direct announcement on April 1 appears to have been erased in the disaster that was April 2. That was the day Wave 4 of the Amiibo figures officially went up for preorder, and the results were even worse than with previous waves. Reports came in from all over the country of every GameStop (and there is a lot of them) being packed tight with willing Amiibo buyers, who were then forced to wait in a line that didn’t move for an average of 2 hours while the chain’s overwhelmed servers attempted to take orders from every single store at once. And while their servers were down, of course, no one could buy anything else. Consumers didn’t get to spend money, and GameStop didn’t get to make money. Literally the only player in the market to make a profit that day was Nintendo. Standing in those lines were many journalists who write for heavy-traffic gaming websites, and when they got home,