Nintendo issues a statement about amiibo shortages

Nintendo of America has issued a statement through their Official Facebook page about the amiibo shortages and their plans to handle upcoming releases, as well as a few of the amiibo that are already out of stock (or sitting in scalper’s homes, in my opinion). For those of you like myself that have spent countless hours hunting them down, pre-ordering, and even contacting customer service when in the middle of your pre-order transaction the website said, oops out of stock, hopefully this will mean a chance to acquire missed amiibo or actually be able to get your hands on upcoming ones, like Ganondorf!

Head past the break to see Nintendo’s statement.

Here is the statement posted to Nintendo’s Official Facebook page:

We appreciate the enthusiasm that our fans continue to show toward amiibo. Sales for the product have exceeded our expectations. We understand how frustrating it can be at times if consumers are unable to find certain figures, and we apologize for that.
We’re trying to meet the demands of our fans and consumers by increasing the amount of amiibo we manufacture and ship to retail. We may continue to see consumer demand outpace supply levels for certain characters at times, but we will do our best to prevent that from happening.

As our library of amiibo continues to grow, some figures will be easier to find than others. We are constantly looking for the opportunity to reissue amiibo and are already making plans to bring back some currently out-of-stock amiibo figures. Stay tuned for details.

Nintendo plans to make it easier for consumers to know when new amiibo are on the way, through Nintendo press announcements, timely updates on our social media channels and working closely with retailers.

We remain committed to keeping amiibo affordable and easy to access as a platform to enhance game-play experiences. These plans include Animal Crossing amiibo cards that will become available by the end of 2015, and a free-to-download app for Wii U called amiibo tap: Nintendo’s Greatest Bits that launched on April 30, 2015, that lets consumers enjoy playable scenes from certain NES and Super NES games with amiibo.

I really hope that this will be something that will come to fruition, I am one of the lucky one so far that has all but one of the amiibo released. I am very concerned about the release of Ganondorf though as I was unable to acquire a pre-order for the latest wave so I am hoping I will have better luck when they release a pre-order for him!

What do you think of Nintendo’s statement? How do you feel they have handled amiibo? Do you think they are being genuine in their statement? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

Source: Facebook