Nintendo Japan plans to stop repairing its Classic Edition consoles

Somehow, Nintendo’s NES Classic Edition console is already astir 8 years old, portion the Super Nintendo Classic Edition is astir to crook seven. That’s seemingly aged capable for Nintendo to announce that the Japanese versions of the consoles — the Nintendo Classic Mini Family Computer and the Nintendo Classic Mini Super Famicom — volition nary longer beryllium eligible for repair erstwhile Nintendo Japan’s existent banal of parts runs out.

That doesn’t mean that if you aftermath up time greeting with a mini Famicom that won’t footwear you’re retired of luck. Nintendo Japan volition proceed to judge repairs, but is informing users that it doesn’t person a definitive timeline for however agelong that volition beryllium the case. Nintendo Japan announced its program to extremity repairs of the 12-year-old Wii U successful May of 2023, but didn’t really tally retired of parts and stop accepting units for repair until July of 2024.

The timeline could beryllium shorter for these consoles. Although the comparatively unpopular Wii U sold adjacent little units than the GameCube, Nintendo inactive managed to marque and determination implicit 13 cardinal of them. However, the company constricted the availability of its Classic Edition consoles, and though they often sold out, determination were little of them manufactured, which could effect successful a overmuch smaller stockpile of spare parts.

The Classic Edition consoles were miniature replicas of the NES and SNES that played a postulation of retro games from each archetypal strategy done bundle emulation. They opened the flood gates for different retro mini consoles including the superior Sega Genesis Mini, and the TurboGrafx-16 Mini.

Nintendo of America’s support pages don’t accidental that it plans to discontinue repair services for the NES oregon SNES Classic Edition consoles, but we person reached retired to Nintendo to confirm, and volition update this station if it does.