DDR Mario Mix: Discontinued?

[THATinkjar]

Apparently, it is just a stock shortage.

[dreams]

How reliable is Kotaku? I've been trying to find the official statement from Nintendo that they quote, and haven't been able to find it.

And also...

According to Nintendo of America, it IS discontinued.

(This link was posted in another thread yesterday)

http://forums.nintendo.com/nintendo/...cending&page=1

Taken from the first post at that link:

Message(#6851-000475-0166\4750166)

Hello and thank you for contacting Nintendo,

I have heard the rumors and, while it is true that Dance Dance
Revolution: Mario Mix is no longer being shipped to our retailers, the exact
reasons why are, at present, unknown. However, it's very possible that
some retailers may still have stock available.

If you need help finding stores that may what you're looking for, head
to our web site at www.nintendo.com. Enter the "Customer Service" area
(which is located at the bottom of our main page), and then the "Where
to Buy" section. Select the appropriate category, and you'll find
information on Retail Locations (U.S. only) and Online Retailers (U.S. and
Canada) that carry Nintendo products.

Thanks for sending us this report. I will be sure to forward it to the
appropriate departments for review.

By the way, while you are at our site, be sure to check out the My
Nintendo section. Not only does this allow you to monitor the progress of
any repairs or part orders that you may have, it also gives you access
to the Nintendo Forums where you can interact with other players. Here
you can discuss games and systems, and possibly obtain key game play
information. Take a look. I think that you will find it helpful.

Nintendo of America Inc.
M. Michel Grimaldi

[Cmosfm]

Apparently, it is just a stock shortage.

Than why did EB games tell me it was discontinued and they sent all unsold copies back when I walked in and asked for it today?

Nintendo doesn't shoot out memos saying "X item is discontinued please send them back" when there is a stock shortage.

[tylerwillis]

Apparently, it is just a stock shortage.

Than why did EB games tell me it was discontinued and they sent all unsold copies back when I walked in and asked for it today?

Nintendo doesn't shoot out memos saying "X item is discontinued please send them back" when there is a stock shortage.

And oddly enough, my EB had two out on the floor. They're now sitting on my floor.

[Jared_Vibelicious]

got mine tonight at Target. spent the last of my paycheck on it haha

[stonecutter]

Just to be safe, I went and got it tonight as a XMas gift for the little ones. Wal-Mart was sold out, and I got the last one from the local Future Shop. Interesting to see how it plays out. Seems like an odd time to discontinue to me, but I am not going to miss out due to my own suspicions and be wrong.

[crazyjackcsa]

I picked my up today at EB,They said it was discontinued, but who knows, far to much disinformation floating around if you ask me. I was wondering about the pad though, does the Mad Catz one work with Mario DDR?

[petewhitley]

Nintendo officially debunked this rumor.

[Leo_A]

Where are these Ebay auctions with these 100$ + prices?

I see some with a high buy it now price, but no auctions that have actually came anywhere close.

[-hellvin-]

Interesting thread, I was actually wondering about this at work today. We had literally 40 - 60 of them EVERYWHERE in overstock and in-line and they recently just disappeared. I've seen quite a few people picking them up, but was surprised they were gone so quickly. I guess we sold through em really quick, or they were messed up somehow and pulled.

In our system they're already listed as "Discontinued".

[norkusa]

Where are these Ebay auctions with these 100$ + prices?

I see some with a high buy it now price, but no auctions that have actually came anywhere close.

Check the completed auctions. There are some that ended in $100-$125 range.

Nintendo officially debunked this rumor.

Where? Do you have a link? None of the ones in this thread so far seem to be official.

[Leo_A]

Thanks, yeah I was looking at the active auctions. Not too experienced with Ebay.

[philosophyst]

I just sold one BIN for $82 plus enough S&H to cover the actual shipping cost and all of the ebay and paypal fees.

About $30 profit, I hope I can sell one more for the same price and that will mean that the one I bought for myself is free. It does seem like you can get more if you leave it on auction though, this is where I seen them go for $100+. I just want to move them though so $82 seems about right to me.

[Gemini-Phoenix]

Wouldn't surprise me in the least if it has in fact been discontinued. It's a Konami game, and it's no secret that Konami produce certain games in limited numbers.

Konami have proven time and time again over a period of fifteen years that their games stay in teh top ten of rarest collectable games for most consoles. Snes. PlayStation. Saturn... You name it, and I guarantee a Komani game will be amongst the top most rarest games.

And as this is one of a very few titles developed for teh GameCube by Konami (I can't think of many other Konami games off the top of my head), then it's no surprise that this could in fact become a very rare game in the future. Add to that the fact it comes with a peripheral that is so far only supported by only one game...

[goatdan]

Wouldn't surprise me in the least if it has in fact been discontinued. It's a Konami game, and it's no secret that Konami produce certain games in limited numbers.

It has Mario in it. Something tells me that Nintendo is at the very least partially involved in the decision making for the game, and usually Nintendo pimps Mario for lots of sales. Something tells me they would've done the game themselves if Konami said that they would limit it (and therefore limit their sales.)

Unless a game is specifically marketed as a limited release, companies don't generally take very popular -- and very advertised for -- properties and pull them off the shelves. Even Konami. They don't get any money if your shrinkwrapped copy of [insert game name here] goes up in value, but they do get money if they produce and sell more copies.

I can all but guarantee that this has something to do with the mat maker, which I'm guessing is a third party. My guess is that they had a contract to do a bunch -- lets say 50,000 mats, and then when Nintendo ordered another batch they greatly raised the prices. It's probably an issue of finding another plant to make them.

Again, that's a guess, but that makes a lot more sense then a well-selling Mario game being purposely limited for a console that hasn't been generating sales during the holiday season.

[THATinkjar]

You people are crazy - good crazy, mind you, but crazy all the same. If this game has been discontinued, I'll eat my hat, give up my collection and walk away from gaming forever!

[Six Switch]

time to go to blockbuster

[swlovinist]

Rare? No, not really, just popular and everyone wants it for Christmas. Yes the bundle is fairly hard to track down right now, but that is becuase people are coming out of thier hybernation to annually buy thier video games. In Jan. the game will be easier to buy, and by then the ebay auctions will have cooled down. Rare? Our store got in six copies, and we are now sold out. If the game was truly rare, we would have only gotten a copy or two. As in Konami producing some of the rarest games? I disagree. Atlus or even Koei, now those are companies who produce limited runs on games which are more common to be rare items.

[sisko]

You people are crazy - good crazy, mind you, but crazy all the same. If this game has been discontinued, I'll eat my hat, give up my collection and walk away from gaming forever!

Erm, what more proof do you need?

Retailers running out of stock?
Retailers saying it is discontinued?
Or NOA themselves saying it is discontinued?

[ClubNinja]

Wow. I was just thinking to myself last weekend "Boy, that game was really short-lived around here. I don't think we've touched it since the week we bought it. I wish I could get my money back!" Perhaps I will.

For the record, if anyone is interested in a set, I'll sell it outright or trade for some DS/PSP/other games. It was used lightly for maybe five days.