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Amazon UK is completely wiped out of NES Classic Mini

by: Sean Colleli -
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Nintendolife is reporting that Amazon UK has completely sold through its stock of the NES Classic Mini, Nintendo's answer to the burgeoning cottage industry of retro consoles and classic clones. The console launches November 11th but unless you already have a preorder down you probably aren't getting one from Amazon UK. Amazon says they expect to fill all pre-orders by mid December.

This is about the 80th time Nintendo has done this--utterly lowball demand for a product--and I'm still not sure why. Just because the Wii U is a dead man walking doesn't mean millennials don't have that nostalgia hook lodged firmly in their lower lips. It also can't be too difficult to manufacture as it's probably an NES system-on-a-chip with the Virtual Console emulator loaded onto it.

That said I'm not too annoyed as I wasn't particularly interested in the NES Classic to begin with. It's cute and all but with its utter lack of internet connectivity and hard lock of 30 games, it only does maybe half of what I want it to do. I'm more interested in more versatile retro consoles like the Retro-Bit Generations. Heck, give me a Raspberry Pi 3 and some time on a 3D printer and I could make a classic console that would knock your socks off.

I'm glad the NES Classic Mini is selling out--Nintendo could definitely use the cash--but the insufficient stock confuses me. If the thing prints money among the nostalgia generation you would think they would crank this thing out in numbers to rival the 3DS. Let's just hope the NX is more robust.

Source: Nintendolife