Nintendo Classic Mini: Nintendo Entertainment System Leads Best Seller Charts on Amazon in Europe

I ordered from Zavvi instead because they had a promotion going. It worked out at just over €51 delivered to Ireland.

Its sold out at eb games here in Australia too. I hope this sells well, & sends Nintendo a message that its their games we cherish, not the wiggly waggly gimmick based fluff. (And a nice regular controller)
I bet this sells better than the Wii U this year!

I hope this is enough to show Nintendo that mini consoles of their other hardware starting with the SNES should also happen. They did say they were looking for the NES to sell well before they would do anything further.

It's going to be a massive hit this Xmas for sure,possibly even bigger than Nintendo expect it to be.A March release for NX doesn't look so daft now after all.

I snubbed this initially but now ive got over the fact of what it cant do and what It can do ive taken the plunge and pre-ordered this at around £1.66 a game it really is actually a massive bargain and I also think this is going to sell massively over xmas. If it does, that will surely mean we'll get something else and hopefully that would be a snes re-release

@OorWullie Not just that: if the NX is indeed announced in September, Nintendo could very well end up dominating gaming news for months.

Not anymore. But it's cool that Nintendo is releasing it though. They always have been big on nostalgia.

@the-madprofessor Yep,add in the new Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem mobile games too which will surely get a lot of coverage,no doubt helped by all the buzz around Pokemon Go at the moment.

On Gameseek UK the top 2 pre order items are the mini NES and the Pokemon Go Plus watch thing, not bad for a company that has hardly any games coming out.

I'm waiting for preorders to open around here, and to see what price it will be here. If its too expensive, I'll pass for now.

With this and the success of Pokemon Go it seems Nintendo will be rolling in the money this year.

@Ichiban well said👍

As soon as I can I will pre order 2 in north America. One for me and one for my wife. I'm hoping for them to follow with SNES, n64 and GameCube versions.

@AcidGhost How did GameSeek get the Pokémon GO Plus?
It was stated as a Nintendo UK Official Store Exclusive from the email message that I received.

@Ichiban
Ha, I preordered on Saturday, glad I didn't decide to wait

I pre-ordered with Amazon, it's a bit weird they don't sell the controller separately. I pre-ordered that with Zavvi. I also preordered with game including the controller, only in case there are problems... I am looking forward to it's arrival.

@Ichiban Selling better than the Wii U this year is a given, Nintendo projected 800,000 Wii U from April thru March, NES Mini may already have that in pre-orders. I think the real question is how long before this outsells the Wii U 13mil total?

I'm still waiting to see if Nintendo markets this with any enthusiasm. Those Sega Game Gear retro consoles have been on store shelves for years but I've never seen any ads for them. W/ really no games out this holiday Nintendo could try to push this hard. Or they might not. When the Black Friday ads start leaking online then we'll know where this thing is heading, I'm expecting to see it a lot for $29.99 (US) but it just as easily may not show up at all.

I can't find anywhere in NA to preorder this sucker

Lol this will outsell the Wii u lifetime market in a week...

No wonder. This system is a great deal. Having Wii-compatible NES Classic Controllers doesn't hurt either.

@Ichiban Remember the Wii, which sold over 100 million consoles and close to 1 BILLION games?

I'll be lucky to be able to get one before Christmas. Anywhere I look it's sold out. I don't mind having to wait once I can get one eventually.

Is the controller included in the package or do we have to buy a separate one?

@zip : There's one in the box.

@Alundra-1998. I don't know, its a bit strange, sometimes games which are supposed to be exclusive to certain shops turn up on other sites. Starfox first print edition was supposed to be an exclusive but its available on thgamecollection website now.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE pretty good deal! 👍

I pre-ordered from The Game Collection, and an extra controller from GAME. Can't wait

Maybe this will sell more units than I expect(ed).

Imagine if it sold better than all the 8th gen consoles this Christmas...stranger things have happened!

Why did they announce it for NA and not take preorders for it? Reggie just loves to torture NA gamers

I have most of the games on this already, so I won't be getting one. It's neat idea though. If it had the original Contra I'd definitely buy one. Why does Nintendo release Super C now but not Contra? I loved that game. Even beat it without the 30 lives.

@rjejr
It's just a compelling little nugget, isn't it? For those who don't care about games very much but remember that feeling when they were kids playing NES. This is a one-stop fast fix. For Nintendo faithful it's just adorable (like an amiibo of the console) and comes with a fun and even useful controller. For gamers that still remember Nintendo fondly but have found more to like elsewhere, it's a cheap way to see if it rekindles something. Then there's those "dirty casuals" who might be caught up with Pokemon GO or hear about Nintendo all the time. They might even be interested in this. It's a bundle of potential fun at a relatively low risk price.

There's simply nothing wrong with advertising this. In fact, the lack of new console this Holiday means that Nintendo can do it without reservation, in my opinion. You're right to feel that Nintendo could still find some reason not to, though.

I think it would be greatly beneficial for Nintendo to start doing cross-promotion type advertising in the lead up to NX. Pokemon GO, Animal Crossing, this NES and miitomo and amiibo and 3DS (Wii U in the background lol) all need to start appearing next to each other in ads swirling around Nintendo branding. A new slogan or aesthetic. Something like the Think Different campaign for Apple when Steve Jobs started turning it around.

I pre-ordered it I own most of the games on the VC but.. . Well its just cool ins't it.

Nintendo's sure getting a ton of positive press recently!

First with Breath of the Wild's overwhelmingly grand reception, then the unprecedented phenomenon that is Pokémon Go, and now this. And we still have NX to look forward to, as well as Nintendo's upcoming mobile games/apps, including both Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing. And that's not even taking Pokémon Sun and Moon into consideration...

This is pretty much their hottest year since the Wii heydays. XD Who'd have thunk it.

@aaronsullivan Your mention of amiibo scared me a bit. If Nintendo is only planning this as a small stop gap until NX - like that 3DS portal was a small stop gap until people bought the NEW 3DS - then scalpers may buy these all up before they ever hit store shelves. Now I know there are a lot of amiibo on store shelves now, mostly AC, but I'm really just talking about this holiday. Of course it will be great for Ntinedo if every 1 they make is sold, but if there are 2 million people looking for this and they only make 1 million, well it may turn people off.

And I still wonder about the marketing angle. I do think they will be on store shelves next to the Wii Mini - I think my Target still carries them - but will they be in Gamestop and Wal-Mart and on Amazon? I know Amazon EU seems to have them up for pre-order but the US seems to be left behind, and as we know Amazon and Ntinedo seem to have issues.

I think these can be huge, and I think Ntineod can totally screw it up. As I said before, BF ads will tell the tale.

"Nintendo Power"?
yes, XD
"Now you are playing with Power, Nintendo Power"

@Ichiban only the first shipment has sold out at EB they're taking pre-orders for the second now.

They should have added Duck Hunt to the list and released a mini version of the NES Gun (Zapper) to go with it.
Too bad this is too small and not able to play any of my NES games either. I still have a few of them, even though my original NES stopped working almost two decades ago.
By the way, has anyone seen Fred Savage or Christian Slater recently?

Dangit, still waiting for US preorders to open up. I'm totally buying two of these (one as a gift), possibly more...

i definitely predict im gonna sell out of these as well. ill probably keep 2 for myself.

@rjejr About amiibo and mini-NES stock: Here's my optimistic take on it: Nintendo isn't doing this blindly. There is precedent. These are mass-market items.

Everything but a second controller is self-contained so there is no matching of accessories or need to pile these on shelves in a particular area. They can be stacked by the check out lines.

I don't expect anything cutting-edge when it comes to hardware, so manufacturing is probably geared to numbers. While the casing is wonderfully nostalgic, it's really handy that it's the shape of a brick.

Most importantly, it's one product. Amiibo have stock issues partly because people go crazy over niche characters, but it's a small hard-to-determine number of people. There's much less reason to play the numbers so closely.

Oh, and my thought with amiibo is that the mini-NES might double as one. Probably not too hard to stick a NFC chip on the bottom. Maybe it could unlock all the same games on your Wii U? Or let you play as an NES brick in Smash Bros.

@aaronsullivan Oooh, I like the NFC chip in the Mini idea. Can't imagine it at all being a reality, but I like it. If they ever make a Gameboy Mini version - which I suppose they will - then that could work better, no electrical plug.

You have a good point about the 100 amiibo variety, but I still worry about Ntinedo making enough of anything to meet demand. Now I think right now this could be so big meeting demand before the holidays would be a near impossibility, but they still need to make a lot, and I don't see them making a lot. $300 on eBay would be nice marketing, and every last selling one out is good for their bottom line, but I think they need to make enough so that most people can buy them. Do you remember the Wii being perpetually out of stock for 2 full years when it launched? 2 full years I never saw it on a shelf. And there was only 1 Wii model.

Maybe I'm wrong, maybe when it comes time to buy nobody will pick one up, but I see it selling very well, if it's available to be bought. As I keep saying, BF ads are the key.

@ThomasBW84 The Nintendo Classic Mini is now available on Nintendo's UK Store: http://store.nintendo.co.uk/nintendo-classic-mini/nintendo-classic-mini-nintendo-entertainment-system.list

The pre-order offers/prices are:
-Nintendo Classic Mini + NES Controller Keychain, £49.99.
-Nintendo Classic Mini + 8-Bit Mario Soft Toy, £49.99.
-Nintendo Classic Mini + NES Controller Messenger Bag, £59.99.
-Nintendo Classic Mini: NES Controller, £7.99.

It's one item per customer so hopefully they won't all go at once!