Amazon US Likely To Have NES Classic Mini In Stock Again Soon

And Europe? Zavvi cancelled my pre order 3 weeks after it launched. I preordered it back in July as soon as it was available. Disgraceful behaviour from them not to honour the deal.

I'm gonna be the Grinch on this one and say no, Christmas will not be saved.

A brick and mortar store near me got restocked this week. They got a whopping 1 console.

I have been half-heartedly looking for a controller to use with my VC games. I fully expect that I will not be able to find one until late January at the earliest.

A matter of minutes? They sold out in less than a minute.

Yeah, emphasis on the "might be saved." Unless you have your one click checkout settings configured, sign up for an alert on nowinstock.net, and watch auto refreshed pages like a hawk, you're not getting an NES Mini from an Amazon restock. You will be beaten if you go about it casually. You must be... hardcore.

I love Nintendo, but can we be honest for a moment and just say their marketing and production side wildly mismanage a great many things? Like, this was entirely predictable based on the reaction the NES Classic received when it was first announced. It will be on the shelves in January, but sales will be lost by not getting it there at Christmas. Add to this the controller cables are too short and a modest investment in WiFi and storage in the console could have been a huge revenue source with VC titles, and it's clear this success could have been a MONUMENTAL success. It's fortunate Nintendo makes such awesome stuff... their business side often isn't helping that.

I pre-ordered mine from The Game Collection, and an extra controller from GAME and got both on day of the release, despite an issue with my card not processing payment when it came to taking the money for it! I guess I'm lucky, good luck to anyone still hoping to get one, fingers crossed for you.

@Muddy_4_Ever Makes you wonder if it was planned out this way in a strategy... Create a frenzy with low stock to increase demand.

@Equinox Nah, a March release avoids the holiday frenzy strategy time frame. The 3DS wasn't exactly flying off the shelves with it's March release either, despite the DS meeting with massive success comparable to the PS2.

I was planning to pick up a controller to use with my Wii U but those seem even harder to find.

I want to make a positive comment.

Nintendo is great

I nabbed one at a local Target this morning. Had to get up early but there's a fairly systematic approach you can take because the internal stock records are available online if you know where to look — not the regular retail web site. (You can check between 4AM and 5AM for a change in stock to know whether you should go form a line out front.)

For what it's worth it seems like we are at least reaching a point where stock is meeting the demand of the dedicated early morning line people. Only a couple people were turned away while we waited in line for a ticket and only one arrived and asked at opening while we were picking one up at customer service.

I'd say anyone dedicated enough to do an early line next restock at a local place has a much better chance at getting one than in the past.

Not sure that helps much with the Amazon stock, though. Anything pre-announced like this is bound to attract way more people.

To encourage anyone with a little dedication to getting one, restocks in the US at least seem to have started arriving every other day. Nintendo made too little but it seems to be ramping up considerably and you might even see one on a shelf in a week or two.

It could happen.

I guess it's probably good that my Christmas wasn't dependent upon this one item. Pretty sure I won't even see one until January.

I went to Toys R Us on Monday to look for Christmas gifts for the kids, and I overheard a man asking one of the workers if they had any left after the restock on Sunday. She told him that people were lining up outside before they even closed on Saturday. Some of that may have been for the Hatchimals, too, but that is ridiculous. Glad I didn't care enough to try to get up early on Sunday, because I still would have been way too late.

@Muddy_4_Ever
On the production and stock, I'm with you 100%. About 10x the stock at start would have been just fine and sold out anyway.

However, I think the product itself is a smart little piece of kit. The cables may be annoying to some but the console itself and how it looks is a big part of the attraction and pleasure of owning one and many will want that out in front of them instead of hidden away. Pull it out and play. It comes with a decent length of HDMI cable for that purpose which is a nice touch.

It's a big step up from the previous nostalgia consoles, as well. Wifi would bring all sorts of unnecessary complications that few would bother with. I'll be happy to collect a bunch of different versions of these. Maybe another NES with a different focus, definitely an SNES version.

They dont sell in minutes, they sell in a microsecond. The bots are there. They need to make it so the item stays in your cart for at least a couple of minutes.

Artificial scarcity or plain incompetence, either way the Nintendo hate is justified.

I got tired of waiting for this nonsense and bought a Raspberry Pi 3 instead.

LEARNT.

These better last longer than 1 second

A large consumer electronics retailer in Austria got lots of NES Classic Mini last weekend.

I really hope to get a NES Mini at the retail price, I was lucky enough to be able to play on one and wow was I surprised. Playing Kirby's Adventure in CRT mode with an actual NES controller, it felt so right. ^_^ who wouldn't want one?

I haven't seen a single one in stock at any local retailer since launch. : (

Scalpers rejoice!!

@SuperToe
Scalper's asking prices are plummeting last I checked.

I've never actually seen that heavenly "In Stock" statement on any website ever, let alone any of my local stores.
I've made peace with the fact that I won't be seeing this thing in my house for a while.

@Rontanamo_Bay I want to play during a vacation time I share with my family. I want to enjoy it as a present and generate some excitement. A little effort and adventure getting it isn't so bad either. That said, I'd never have paid more than retail and I'd prefer if it was easier to get and on the shelf for most everyone.

@Gamecubed If you are in US near a Target, use nowinstock.net

The tables at the top of the page only show info if it went on shelves but the little zipcode search thingy ties into brickseek so you can see the inventory raise during the early morning hours (between 4AM and 5AM) so you know for sure that there is new stock.

@Manjushri We laugh about how obvious demand is now but plenty of people were naysayers and still feel like everyone should just assemble something with a raspberry pi or get an old console. Just look at this thread. Nintendo has been too careful with profits since they took a heavy loss and have had to overhaul huge parts of future strategies because of the Wii U, and I feel like there needs to be some explanation how they could be so off on this, but it's not like everyone thought huge demand was obvious from the get go.

I managed to nab one last Wed. when a rumor circulated on Twitter that Gamestop was getting a restock. And they did. Even accessories are hard to find, though. The GS employees told me they get fewer of the extra controllers than systems.

@aaronsullivan I wouldn't exactly call it plummeting when the cheapest US console on eBay currently starts at $183.50 (but most are sitting at $200), and the controller, as well as an EMPTY BOX, starts at $100.
Knowing Nintendo and the fact that this is a novelty toy and not a major system release, my gut feeling is we won't see a sudden flood of these things before or after xmas. It will be more of a trickle and then gone.
I really want one for my family but I will never pay more than the retail price, so I'm likely out of luck.

@SuperToe They keep rolling out. I got a small local indication that there might be quite a few heading to Targets overnight. For the first time in ... ever, I think, I saw a post where they actually had 14 or so on a shelf at a Walmart in the evening. Sure it's not going to last but it feels like a change. All that said, 9 days to Xmas.

@SuperToe @Gamecubed Any luck getting a classic NES mini? Stock looks replenished again today even this close to "the end". Amazingly, some is holding out into the middle of the day apparently. If you haven't checked locally I would give it one more try.

Nothing close to the hope that it would be on plenty of shelves, but looks like plenty of people are getting them without waiting in line in the wee hours now.

@aaronsullivan I'm in Canada and I've had zero luck since day one lol. A coworker of mine actually found one at Shoppers Drug Mart, and said he would have gotten one for me had he known I wanted one. It's a drug store chain that also sells video games, but no one goes there to buy video games and everybody forgets that they sell video games. Which is probably why he found one there. I went to the same store the next day and there were none.

Kind of given up and won't start looking again until the new year when stock will most likely become normal and steady. I'm fine with it. But it's good to know that they are out there and that they're slowly trickling into the stores. It gives me some hope that the stock issue will be resolved some time soon.

@aaronsullivan No luck so far. I've stood in morning lines twice and have gone on three wild goose chases with nothing to show for it but suspicion that grouchy employees were keeping inventory for themselves.
Also, I missed the Amazon Prime Now releases due to being at work at the time.
So, until Nintendo decides to actually satisfy the still-high demand for this thing and cram retail shelves full of NES Classics, I'm done chasing.