EarthBound Sold Out on Club Nintendo!

the licensing seems to be the most logical conclusion here, unless nintendo purposefully paid Apple Music royalties to abate lawsuits, and they only had so many licenses they could sell before they had to renew a contract. that isn’t entirely unheard of in software.

So awesome that it’s still selling so well.

This happened a few weeks ago with one of the Mario Vs DK games. A few days later it was available again. The guess is that they only keep so many codes in inventory at a time.

I’m feeling nows the appropriate time for nintendo to release Mother 3 on the wii u,

Tomato, you offered your translation to nintendo, right? Because it’d be awesome if it got an official release on the wii u 😀

I’m not sure but I think I contributed to it being sold out. I spent some coins on it last month. Sadly I haven’t had the chance to play it though, as I have been too busy.

Does anyone know if you can still purchase Earthbound with money instead of coins?

I checked the Club, it’s still avaible, please don’t post BS

He didn’t post BS. It was unavailable.

Indeed, they have restocked. Now I’m off to spend some coins…

@ebv2406 It has now since been corrected and is able to downloaded again. It’s odd that is occurred in the first place.

Yes, it was in fact sold out on Easter Sunday and earlier today. No BS involved (apart from the one that would allow a digital reward to sell out). Now back to your regularly scheduled broadcast.

Considering that the “bit depth” of codes like this (that is, combinations of letters and numbers) would be able to number every individual atom in the universe, it’s kinda weird that they would allocate so few that they could “run out”. It seems to me they were short sighted.

A lot of servers are also poorly programmed and send incorrect error codes. The licensing server could have been getting disk access errors or something and was just sending down sold out because it doesn’t know what else to say.

This happened because of a CN coin exploit. They made the game unavailable to purchase with CN coins.

The cynical side of me is wondering whether the sell outs occurred because of people getting multiple codes to try to sell on eBay. I know it’s available for purchase from the eShop itself, but “entrepreneurs” have done dumber things.

I like how digital downloadable games are ‘out of stock’. Would have also preferred it to be on the 3DS as well but hey, I guess it’s something that it was on the one console i dont have.

What happened to the Miiverse article?

I’m wondering about that, too. When I came here and noticed “EarthBound Sold Out on Club Nintendo” at the top instead of the Miiverse one, I nearly convinced myself that I just imagined that article, until I saw Hyperstar96’s comment.