Topic: amiibo

Ooo greninja amiibo pre-orders just opened on toys'r us but i dont want that

It won't let me add it to my cart

reloaded the page and it is gone

greninja is gone now....wow that was fast

Toys R Us is apparently offering an in-store pre-order option on some Monday. Forgot which date though

Splatoon amiibo available at Best Buy

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/nintendo-amiibo-figure-splatoon-s...

Darnit! I don't get paid until next week and best buy pings your account for funds. I guess it is down to amazon...

I still wonder how I got Pit and Little Mac in all this mess.

April 27.

I managed to preorder the inkling girl from Best Buy, but it won't let me add the 3-pack to my list. You can cancel pre-orders, right?

Ugh i really hope i find a Wario Amiibo when they come out.

I wouldn't read into that too much. I'm pretty sure ebgames has done the same with most of the other waves. Every time they have had a few extra in stock, there has been stock at other stores (who don't take pre-orders) AND there have been second shipments.

Y'know, it's not entirely their fault. Gamestop's servers weren't prepared to handle the amount of pre-orders, and Toys R' Us making Greninja available at 3 in the morning was just stupid. My point is, the stores are also partially to blame.

Sure these issues are part fault to the retailer but the fact all of this is happening is solely due to Nintendo's stock issues that started on day 1 (Smash launch). If amiibo were plentiful at Smash launch and continued that way throughout all of the waves then scalpers wouldn't have got involved and the issues that happened yesterday wouldn't have happened as people would preorder whenever it fitted well into their day rather than as soon as they became available.

...Good point.

EB Australia is sold out on their online store, but you can still go in store and preorder, as I did this morning.

I honestly didn't even know wave 5 pre-orders were up.

On the bright side of all of this, we can at least thank the powers that be that Nintendo wasn't so cruel as to region lock amiibos. Could you imagine not even being able to import them?

Here I was thinking to get a Yarn Yoshi amiibo with ease. After reading what happened during the last two days, I know that it's proably going to be a pain in the arse to get one.

you're forgetting, or perhaps never realised, where Nintendo were coming from when the amiibo were announced. they had no idea they would sell so well, nobody did.

if amiibo were plentiful at launch? the hype wouldn't exist, this thread wouldn't exist, they wouldn't be as cool as they are.

where is the fun in just pre-ordering whenever you like? there's no hype in that. business and marketing is all about hype, nintendo know how to do it.

Nintendo probably assumed that amiibo sales would be a percentage of the Wii U install base. We now know how popular they are with people who don't even own a current Nintendo console. Either way, I remember reading somewhere (possibly in those interviews following Dan Adleman's departure) that Nintendo's attitude toward the shortage is more triumphant than concerned. They just want to sell all of their units, and they're not concerned with fans who get left out.