This is where my Black Friday allocation went ! to a company trying to actually develop an excellent game , not drive it up Satan ' s arsehole ! <| sep |> Bro , I ' m gonna need a chart for this one . There are so many crossed paths here . <| sep |> Literally right off the car driving past the motorcycle . <| sep |> With the Wii U causing a situation where they got overstocked , I don ' t blame them for being more careful with their stock . Amiibo and NES Classic took me off guard for sure . I didn ' t think anyone would care for amiibo since they didn ' t do much of anything when they first launched , and the NES Classic I thought would only appeal to casual collectors who don ' t own a WiiWiiU but enjoyed the NES games of the past . I think Nintendo thought the same and that caused the shortages . All this talk about it being artificial is nothing but BS IMO . If that were the case for amiibo then the one that would be sold out nonstop would be Mario and Link , the characters that are actually popular with everybody . But no , back during the amiibo craze it was only minor characters that got understocked and sold out quickly while the Mario line was overstocked . Nowadays its easy to get an amiibo of your choice Just got Robin from Gamestop a while ago but back during the first year it was a mess that helped nobody . FE Fates was one that I unfortunately suffered from , but that was mainly something I kick myself for since I actually HAD the ability to preorder at a gamestop a few months before launch , but my grandmother wouldn ' t let me because she thought they ' d be everywhere . Come launch they are all gone and I will never obey my grandmother on anything regarding preordering ever again . I went digital for the two routes and still don ' t have revelations as I was burnt out . That was one I did get mad at Nintendo for not restocking even if the initial stock sold out quicker than even my local stores imagined they didn ' t expect as many preorders as they got . For the NES Classic shortages , I think it was the mainstream media like ABC , CBS and CNN reporting on it that caused the shortages , as now the nongaming fans knew about it , leading to a repeat of the Wii situation . I ' m certain they ' ll make more of those like they did for amiibo , since they ' ve seem to have done so for the Famicom mini Still waiting for an amazon JP restock though