I know, i know it's fallout 4 but didnt bethesda anticipate strong sales? I go to buy the fallout 4 xbox one controller and its sold out every where. Just a couple of days ago it wasnt. Any word if more are being produced or is it like the pip boy edition where a certain number was produced and that was final?

Would really like to get my hands on one of those controllers.

It is all to increase the hype.

I think the title of your thread answered your own question

It's a mystery to me why the pipboy was sold out so fast.

Just a piece of hideous plastic lol.

It doesnt make sense to produce a minimal amount of product on a saga that has a huge fan base. Demand is high so why not mass produce if the money is there? Bethesda marketing really dropped the ball on this one.

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The demand is probably outstripping what the factory can supply.

If you can make 100 units a day, and you have 200 orders oer day... well, someone's gonna be SOL.

People like to collect things. I can understand why'd you think that, but I purchased the Pipboy and although I might not have a phone that works with the app I still have a stand. Besides when I stream I like to have an appealing background and that would be a cool thing to see. BUT Everytime I play Fallout 4 I will be wearing my Pipboy.

Fair enough. I guess I just don't have the collector gene

Ebay scalpers.

I can see wanting the Pip Boy edition for the collectors item, but actually wearing it every time you play? That just seems ludicrous to me. It's a friggin gimmick. You really want to stop, look down at your wrist and fiddle with that thing every time you need to go into the menu (which is a LOT). I won't even be bothering with the app. I don't need the second screen experience. The in game menu will work just fine. Obviously I'm in the minority because they couldn't even keep up with the demand. To each their own I guess.

Be glad Bethesda isn't Nintendo, who apparently doesn't understand the fundamentals of commerce. I still remember how painful it was to hunt for Amiibos since stores only had three of certain characters in each location.

I used to not have it, but I started doing it and like it. Try it

I rather not spend a pretty penny on hideous plastic, now if they have a skin for smartphones that is akin to the Pip-boy 2000 (or tablet), than sure thing.

According to BGS they made more pipboy editions than any other special edition ever in their history.

What more were they suppose to do? The point of these special editions is that dams is always suppose to surpass supply or else its not a "special edition"

Only two possibilities exist.

Either Bethesda, or their manufacturer, is in short supply of the controllers, or they are intentionally withholding shipments in order to create an artificial sense of scarcity and increase hype.

I think Bethesda did anticipate the hype as they are selling so much Fallout merchandise on their website. Its good to see though as I often collect anything Fallout related.

Although Bethesda didn't state this themselves as they did for the Limited Edition of the art book for example - the difference being that the art book LE is exclusive to the Bethesda store, whereas the controller wans't - in regards to the controller, http://www.destructoid.com/bethesda-is-making-a-fallout-4-controller-316378.phtml, about the debut of the controller on the Bethesda store, that "5,000 of them will be up for grabs."

To me, that makes it sound like the quantity of 5,000 was what was allocated to the Bethesda store. Not that it was any kind of limited edition.

The controller was also available on http://www.gamestop.com/xbox-one/accessories/xbox-one-fallout-4-vault-boy-wired-controller/125316 for a few days after it debuted on the Bethesda store.

A third party seller is currently selling them on http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-Fallout-Vault-Wired-Controller/dp/B017E4R3IQ/ - and the scalpers are having their fun on http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xvault+boy+controller.TRS0&_nkw=vault+boy+controller&_sacat=0.

It is a third party manufacturer (PDP) - not Bethesda, and not an official Microsoft Xbox One controller - and they certainly may manufacture more, because besides that Destructoid article that gave a quantity on the original offering, I don't think it was ever stated that the controller was a limited edition controller.

You answered you're own question...

Yeah, I'd say it's this. People who don't even play the game noticed the hype surrounding F4. So you have lots of people that simply buy/sell things for profit jumping into the fray.

Yep agreed, totally despise that. The people who actually play the game miss out & can't get a pipboy edition unless they pay way over the asking price. So wrong

Dang well at least I have a keyboard and mouse haha.

I completely agree - and I believe it's a big problem and that it's been ruining things for a lot of gamers who want to buy something but can't because a scalper pre-ordered it faster.

People svck. I realize there are probably some legitimate cases where someone is re-selling for an honest reason, but those are likely far and few between.

I wish eBay had rules against these types of listings. Can you imagine how many Pip-Boy Editions were bought by people just to resell them? Right now there are around 1,200 results on eBay.com for "fallout 4 pip-boy" - and that's only right at this moment and not including international listings.

If I switch over to "sold only" listings, I get another 2,500 listings (apparently going back to August).

The problem is only going to get worse unless publishers and/or eBay change what they're doing in order to prevent it. Ideally, eBay would put a stop to it, unfortunately I can't see them doing that because they're profiting!

I thought Destiny was bad, but I'm pretty sure Fallout 4 was worse. What will the next game be?

My original idea was - I hope a game is released that is really popular, scalpers buy it, but the manufacturer makes enough and all the fans get it and are happy, and don't have to buy from the scalpers, leaving the scalpers dead in their tracks. But then I realized that the scalpers would simply cancel their pre-orders. This would leave the manufacturer with way too much inventory, and then the manufacturer thinks, "next time we'll make less." And then the problem simply starts again.

Sorry! Rant over!

I was most disappointed with the Monopoly set being sold out. That's something the whole family could enjoy and from a production standpoint... shouldn't be sold out.

http://www.gamestop.com/toys/monopoly-fallout-collectors-edition-gamestop-exclusive/120484!

Why? Because you're not the only person who has this thought: