After Nintendo Midnight Sale, People are Selling the NES Classic for Great Amounts of Money
Seeing Nintendo come back to the gaming scene brings nostalgia to the 70s and 80s kids. This was recently proven when the Nintendo NES Classic was sold out like pancakes two midnights ago.
Nintendo selling it in limited stocks is just one factor to consider, but it is admittedly something any gamer could ask as a Christmas present. Unlike the old-school version, Business Insider Australia reports that it features a 30-games-in-one micro-console letting anyone reminisce their memories of playing the console in their childhood.
People queued up to buy when Nintendo released the NES Classic for $60 during their Friday midnight sale. Polygon confirmed that only limited units of the console were released to retailers, so it became a ticketed item in some of the stores, and restricted the sale to only one per customer.
Some sources said that there were only six consoles available in stock for certain stores causing them to turn away those who didn't make it to the cut off. Disappointment filled the Nintendo enthusiasts after learning that their much awaited micro console was under produced.
Since then, people who were able to buy the NES Classic sold it for hundreds of dollars, even up to more than thrice the original price of the unit. According to Inverse, there was even a listing priced at $9,000, or marked up for almost 15,000 per cent.
Mixed emotions were stirred by the release of the Nintendo Classic. Lucky buyers-and-sellers of it are probably more than happy with the bang they just got from their banks, while others feel robbed out of their chance to experience again their childhood.
Considering that Christmas shopping season is just around the corner, Nintendo is yet to confirm if there will be a second batch of the gaming console hitting the store shelves in the next weeks.
