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It’s a colorway that would’ve sat for months and gotten discounted to 99.97 if it were pre 2020.
Man that's the majority of Kobe's releases after he retired unless it was a limited release or special pair.
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It’s a colorway that would’ve sat for months and gotten discounted to 99.97 if it were pre 2020.
The public is just thirsty for Kobe's.
Nike has released the Pandas 5000 times and they still sell out, that shows that if the public actually likes something, demand is hard to quench. They could’ve made 3 million pairs of the Jordan 1 Chicago instead of 500K and released a percentage of it every quarter and it would sell out every time. They have a ton of stuff in their vault that would sell just as well, yet they waste time releasing 5000 garbage colorways of Jordan retros that sit for months. Nike’s strategy is let’s make a bunch of garbage all year and have a high demand release a few times a year and greatly undersell it.The public is just thirsty for Kobe's.
Purposely releasing ugly colorways just to create pent up demand for good looking ones is a crazy business model. Whatever works I guess. You’re absolutely right.Nike has released the Pandas 5000 times and they still sell out, that shows that if the public actually likes something, demand is hard to quench. They could’ve made 3 million pairs of the Jordan 1 Chicago instead of 500K and released a percentage of it every quarter and it would sell out every time. They have a ton of stuff in their vault that would sell just as well, yet they waste time releasing 5000 garbage colorways of Jordan retros that sit for months. Nike’s strategy is let’s make a bunch of garbage all year and have a high demand release a few times a year and greatly undersell it.
They don’t sell Kobes for two years and the best they can do is 40K for the Gigi 4? Nike isn’t just a **** company, they’re also stupid.
i was watching nightwings video a few days ago (can't remember which one) and i learned something interesting.
he said it costs around $10,000 for a company to make the mould for EACH SIZE. so a full size run will cost well over $100k just to produce a shoe in mens sizes.. now add kids and we're in the $200k+ just to create a shoe.
then add designer time
material sourcing
prototypes
marketing
labour
if that 10k per size is correct, it's easily over 500k just to launch one shoe
which leads me to this..
there's no way nike throws out old moulds unless they become unusable. so they already have these moulds for the protro 4, 5 and 6 (since they re-did them compared to the OG's), so they LITERALLY do not need to spend any extra money to get the line going again full throttle.. all they gotta do is get the materials and get to work, but they're not. they're artificially limiting supply. there is no material shortage because if there was nike wouldn't be releasing much of anything. most materials can be repurposed/recycled and used across multiple different products.
While I also want Nike to make more Kobes for us, you gotta remember that Nike makes more than just Kobes. You brought up material supply. The other shoes that Nike sell much more of also use those materials as well. People who buy Kobes are just a small portion of Nike's customers, they sell way more merchandise to the general public who has no idea who Kobe even is.
but they rather put them in an $80 shoe that will hit outlets for $50
Even at those heavy discounts I'm pretty sure they're making profit. I'm sure they make a ton of bread off running shoes that have to be bought frequently because of how fast they get burnt thru. The pegasus line alone should generate a ton of money.i know, but that's not an excuse tbh.
nike makes a lot of colourways for all shoes.. there are also a ton of take down models or trash models that use the same materials that could easily be allocated accordingly. but they rather put them in an $80 shoe that will hit outlets for $50
They could’ve made 3 million pairs of the Jordan 1 Chicago instead of 500K
They don’t sell Kobes for two years and the best they can do is 40K for the Gigi 4?
NMD, UB, Panda dunks RIP.They don’t make more because they don’t want people talking about how played out they are and making memes about how you look like a NPC wearing them
The fastest way to kill hype is to flood the market with so many they become cheap enough that you see little kids rockin them everywhere. Exclusivity matters
Nike is the opposite of stupid here. What’s actually stupid is what Adidas did by mass producing NMDs
Lol. He changed his number to 24 because of his hatred of Adidas.Didn’t know Kobe felt that way about the Adidas line… I blame the Kobe 2 lol
Nah. He changed it to 24 because he caught wind that Adidas was about to retro his first pair of shoes and had rebranded them from the KB8s to the Crazy 8s. Kobe wanted to ruin their marketing plan and changed his number.This is Mamba Mentality. Shaq tells a story about telling Kobe there's no I in team, and Kobe said "I know, but here's an M and an E in that motherf*c*er."
There's a good reason why Kobe hated Adidas. The shoes were ugly and Adidas dragged it out legally, when he wanted out. Kobe had to pay Adidas $8M to get out of his contract in 2002. Then signed with Nike in 2003 and didn't get his first signature sneaker until 2005. The rest is sneaker history. And he changed his jersey number to start fresh and picked 24 to one up MJ from what KG said. I can see that coming from Kobe.
What’s the point of hype when you’re the biggest company with the largest market share by far? Yeezy was the only real competition and they were still far behind, now they’re gone. Nikes best sneakers sold at JC Penney in the 90s, Jordans were easily accessible, and that didn’t hurt them in the long term, in fact, it created a whole generation of people with nostalgia for Nike products. The idea that everything has to sell out is BS, especially when you’re the only company on the hill. Even if I were to grant you your point, Nike is undersaturating the market far more than they need to be.They don’t make more because they don’t want people talking about how played out they are and making memes about how you look like a NPC wearing them
The fastest way to kill hype is to flood the market with so many they become cheap enough that you see little kids rockin them everywhere. Exclusivity matters
Nike is the opposite of stupid here. What’s actually stupid is what Adidas did by mass producing NMDs
They don’t make more because they don’t want people talking about how played out they are and making memes about how you look like a NPC wearing them
The fastest way to kill hype is to flood the market with so many they become cheap enough that you see little kids rockin them everywhere. Exclusivity matters
Nike is the opposite of stupid here. What’s actually stupid is what Adidas did by mass producing NMDs
What’s the point of hype
Didn’t know Kobe felt that way about the Adidas line… I blame the Kobe 2 lol
This is Mamba Mentality. Shaq tells a story about telling Kobe there's no I in team, and Kobe said "I know, but here's an M and an E in that motherf*c*er."
There's a good reason why Kobe hated Adidas. The shoes were ugly and Adidas dragged it out legally, when he wanted out. Kobe had to pay Adidas $8M to get out of his contract in 2002. Then signed with Nike in 2003 and didn't get his first signature sneaker until 2005. The rest is sneaker history. And he changed his jersey number to start fresh and picked 24 to one up MJ from what KG said. I can see that coming from Kobe.
Nah. He changed it to 24 because he caught wind that Adidas was about to retro his first pair of shoes and had rebranded them from the KB8s to the Crazy 8s. Kobe wanted to ruin their marketing plan and changed his number.
As for his shoes - the 2K4 Huaraches were supposed to be Kobe’s first pair of shoes, but Nike had to change it up due to him catching a case in Colorado. There are samples out there which had an 8 ball logo instead of the huarache logo.
Honestly, Kobe could have avoided that whole ordeal with Adidas had he signed with Nike after his first deal with Adidas expired. The gold and eggplant Flightposite 1s were intended for Kobe. Not as his signature shoe, but he’d be the main guy in the ads for them.
What’s the point of hype when you’re the biggest company with the largest market share by far? Yeezy was the only real competition and they were still far behind, now they’re gone. Nikes best sneakers sold at JC Penney in the 90s, Jordans were easily accessible, and that didn’t hurt them in the long term, in fact, it created a whole generation of people with nostalgia for Nike products. The idea that everything has to sell out is BS, especially when you’re the only company on the hill. Even if I were to grant you your point, Nike is undersaturating the market far more than they need to be.