NES Classic Launch: Why Does Nintendo Treat Fans Like This?

It shouldn’t be like this.
As the NES Classic Edition launched this morning, thousands of gamers left stores and clicked off of websites empty-handed, thanks to a severe shortage of Nintendo’s miniature remake of its 1985 console. I was one of them, walking out of two Targets disappointed and sighing in exasperation as I walked by gigantic, no-way-I’m-getting-one lines at two not-yet-open GameStops. Most stores, by various reports, only got extremely limited quantities.
I woke