It’s basically impossible to find a NES Classic Edition for $60 right now, unless you or someone you’ve recently bribed works in inventory management at Target. Walmart, Best Buy and anyone else you’d think of as selling the games console are out of stock online, and the limited stock that trickles into physical retails stores is being gobbled up before they even make it to the shelves.
But at the eleventh hour before Christmas, one highly unlikely retailer might save your day/holiday gifting plans: Urban Outfitters.
The store known for selling painfully hipster record players and “ironic” Polaroids will have a limited-stock, online-only sale of the NES Classic Edition starting tomorrow morning. We don’t yet have a precise time, but Urban Outfitters told BGR it will be sometime Tuesday AM.
If I were a guessing man, I’d say the likeliest times would be 12:01AM, and something like 7, 8 or 9AM in the morning, just as physical stores open/the IT guy clicks “go” in an office somewhere.
In the absence of perfect information, I’d recommend using a service like Visualping to keep an eye on Urban Outfitter’s tech page, so that when the site gets updated with a new product, you’ll get pinged with an email.
The good thing about this Urban Outfitter sale is that unlike the stock releases from Walmart and Target, not too many people seem to know about it. Add that to the uncertain release timing, and this could be your best chance to get a console before Christmas.
Years of experience with buying concert tickets has taught me the best strategies for making sure you get your hands on a console. Make sure you set up an account beforehand and that you’re logged in, to speed through checkout. You’ll also want to have more than one computer on hand, so you can keep hitting refresh on multiple devices to get the best chance. If possible, rope a couple friends into the plan; bribe with the promise of Super Mario parties where necessary.
