Bandai does not care so much about there 20th Tamagotchis

[KidRetro64]

Who here thinks that Bandai did not take as much care as they could have when they made the new tamas?

 

[TamaMum]

*Topic moved from Tamagotchi Memorial forum to 'What's On Your Mind'*

 

[Jhud]

Companies never *care* when they make a product, they're justr trying to make money, that's one. And you can't say that the 20th anniversary mini didn't give them that (since I assume you mean the Mini- there is lots more of 20th anniversary tamas)

The Mini isn't even a new tama for the long run, minis have existed since 2005. The 20th anniversary mini was released in Japan first, then the next year in the US. Since then bandai Japan released also the 20th anniversary P1/P2's which were a long awaited re-release of the originals which has been something everybody wanted, plus they also made two iterations of the M!X for the 20th anniversary as well. It's just that the US only got the minis- mostly because people have already been mass importing them from Japan when they heard of it.

I don't think the mini itself is bad or a "lazy" product. It would just have been better if Bandai also pitched the P1/P2 rereleases from Japan.

 

[Penguin-keeper]

Companies never *care* when they make a product, they're justr trying to make money, that's one.

They do care - it's certainly a business, and businesses primarily exist to make profit, but they're still staffed by human beings who want to make a good product, for whom profit is not their only interest. If you don't care about what you're making, and if you don't put that care into designing and creating a good product, then people won't want to buy it.

I don't think the mini itself is bad or a "lazy" product. It would just have been better if Bandai also pitched the P1/P2 rereleases from Japan.

I agree, the 20th Anniversary Tamagotchi Mini certainly isn't lazy or bad (and, indeed, for my country, it's the first Mini that we ever got - the 2000s version skipped the UK, as far as I know), it just serves a different purpose to what the promotions for it have made people expect. ("Tamagotchi is Back!", "Just like you remember it!", without enough mention being made of how cut-down the 20th Anniversary Mini is, is the general gist of it.)

Whilst I think that the continued waves of the Mini are certainly a positive thing for the Tamagotchi line outside of Japan, it certainly would be nice if they brought the Shuku 20 Shunen re-issues over, too. I'd be tempted to double-dip if they did, honestly, as I really like my Shuku 20 Shunen P2.

EDIT: Ooh! I just stumbled across this - we might still be in with a chance of seeing the P1 and P2 re-issues outside of Japan!

 

[KidRetro64]

Ok, I give u some credit.

They DID CARE A BIT, but compared to the P1, It’s nothing.

 

[Penguin-keeper]

Ok, I give u some credit.

They DID CARE A BIT, but compared to the P1, It’s nothing.

The P1 was the foundation of an entirely new type of toy (I was in my teens at the time, and it was a revolutionary use of established technologies). You really can't compare the handling of any other Tamagotchi release to that, because the P1 is worlds apart from all of them.

As for "nothing", the efforts to re-establish the Tamagotchi brand outside of Japan, which started with the promotions for the 20th Anniversary Tamagotchi Mini, certainly don't strike me as being "nothing", but perhaps that's just me.

 

[Hoky]

I'm with PK. Sometimes companies do dumb stuff without thinking of the end user (look at all the shows Fox just cancelled...) but it's LITERALLY my job to make sure that my company handles user feedback well and uses it to make sure the customer has a better time interacting with us. XD Don't get me wrong, as someone who also does Gunpla (gundam models), Bandai is notoriously bad about ignoring the end users, but I don't think this is that at all.

That said, like PK said, the Mini isn't supposed to be competing with/better than the P1. It's supposed to be a nostalgia burst outside of Japan to gauge interest in tamagotchis. Notice how it came out roughly the same time as the My Tama Forever app. That's not a coincidence. Comparing the Mini to a P1 is like asking why a honda civic doesn't have a pickup truck bed. They're two different things, even if they're both tamas.

I also agree with Jhud that the Mini's been around for many, many years, and so even though it's simplistic by today's standards, that's again not quite the point. Also, I agree that I think it'd be cool if they released the anniverasry p1/p2's next.

 

[Berryitchi]

Yes! The p1's/2's should be again, and maybe even the friends too. I think they may sell pretty quick.

 

[Jhud]

Friends were a literal flop, people complained about them and most of them didn't even sell. I remember seeing them for 2$ in stores because nobody wanted them.

 

[Berryitchi]

(yeah, k, some were half price -- £15!!!) Ah whatever. I'm just saying that they should be sold again cuz I want one. xD