Somehow,
Nintendo’s
NES
Classic
Edition
console
is
already
almost
eight
years
old,
while
the
Super
Nintendo
Classic
Edition
is
about
to
turn
seven.
That’s
apparently
old
enough
for
Nintendo
to
announce
that
the
Japanese
versions
of
the
consoles
—
the
Nintendo
Classic
Mini
Family
Computer
and
the
Nintendo
Classic
Mini
Super
Famicom
—
will
no
longer
be
eligible
for
repair
once
Nintendo
Japan’s
current
stock
of
parts
runs
out.
That
doesn’t
mean
that
if
you
wake
up
tomorrow
morning
with
a
mini
Famicom
that
won’t
boot
you’re
out
of
luck.
Nintendo
Japan
will
continue
to
accept
repairs
but
is
warning
users
that
it
doesn’t
have
a
definitive
timeline
for
how
long
that
will
be
the
case.
Nintendo
Japan
announced
its
plan
to
end
repairs
of
the
12-year-old
Wii
U
in
May
of
2023
but
didn’t
actually
run
out
of
parts
and
stop
accepting
units
for
repair
until
July
of
2024.
The
timeline
could
be
shorter
for
these
consoles.
Although
the
relatively
unpopular
Wii
U
sold
even
fewer
units
than
the
GameCube,
Nintendo
still
managed
to
make
and
move
over
13
million
of
them.
However,
the
company
limited
the
availability
of
its
Classic
Edition
consoles,
and
although
they
frequently
sold
out,
there
were
fewer
of
them
manufactured,
which
could
result
in
a
much
smaller
stockpile
of
spare
parts.
The
Classic
Edition
consoles
were
miniature
replicas
of
the
NES
and
SNES
that
played
a
collection
of
retro
games
from
each
original
system
through
software
emulation.
They
opened
the
floodgates
for
other
retro
mini
consoles,
including
the
superior
Sega
Genesis
Mini
and
the
TurboGrafx-16
Mini.
Nintendo
of
America’s
support
pages
don’t
say
that
it
plans
to
discontinue
repair
services
for
the
NES
or
SNES
Classic
Edition
consoles,
but
we
have
reached
out
to
Nintendo
to
confirm
and
will
update
this
post
if
it
does.
(Originally posted by Andrew Liszewski)
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