Nintendo has it all wrong with how they do shipments anyhow, no one wants Peach, Mario, and the other ones that are WAY OVERSTOCKED. Most people want their niche character that probably hasn't had a figure at all. Look at Captain Falcon or Little Mac for example.
Pretty much this. They use they just ship them in cases and they have the more "popular" figures more times over in the shipments then the niche characters which everybody would rather have. We've gotten toys of the Mario, Metroid, Zelda and Pokemon toys already. You see them everywhere. Even at Nintendo World the only three they had where Samus, Link and Zelda. You look in the store and they have other toys with them already on it, but where's the Fire Emblem toys? F-Zero characters? One big reason for me pre-ordering Mega Man was so it could go on the shelf with the other Mega Man toys I have. I rarely use him in the game but I love the way he looks. Meanwhile I do use Shulk a lot in the game and seeing how he was a GameStop exclusive pushed me over the edge so I got him when I pre-ordered Mega Man.
That's what makes me so worried about when Ness pre-orders open. People are going to go apeshit to try to get him, myself included. I've got to get at least two of him because for the reason that we never got any toys related to Earthbound in the US, while Japan's got tons of stuff. (I was VERY tempted in getting the new mini-figures that came out a few months ago in Japan for Mother 2 but decided not too) I hope they'll see that packing who they think is the more popular characters won't work.
It's kinda like in the 90's when they had toys based off Batman: The Animated Series. EVERYBODY wanted a Harley Quinn figure and they never made her until a few years into the run of the toys. When they finally did she was "short boxed" which meant for every five "Arctic Armor Batman" figures that came in the case of toys there might be two Harley Quinn's which is why, to this day I never got her and she's one of the more expensive ones out there.
