Avid gamers are up in arms after an announcement by Nintendo that they are discontinuing distribution of the NES Classic.
This has left many people angry because they haven’t been able to find them.
The gaming unit, that is basically a replica of the Nintendo system from the 1980s, was released on Remembrance Day last year, but it was the 2016 holiday season’s most-wanted and hardest-to-find items.
Reports say Nintendo didn’t expect it to be in such high demand, but Kris Jardine, a Gamer from Miramichi, says he doesn’t buy it, “When you think about the market that this was targeted towards. A nostalgic console bringing back games from 20 to 30 years ago. Howe did they not have the foresight to not know that this thing was going to sell like wildfire. It confuses consumers as to why they decided to discontinue something that seems to have a very high level of demand.”
The Nintendo NES Classic was one of the most wanted and hardest to find presents over the 2016 holiday season…
Jardine says, unfortunately scalpers are now the big winners, “They have made out very well with this. Three days after it was launched, this console, which sells for $79.95 Canadian, was being sold for $200 and $300. But people have had to resort to that route to get one.”
Jardine says he was one of the lucky ones to get a unit when they were released last year, but he says many gamers are going to have to do without.
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Nov 12, 2016 at 3:12am PST