They will eventually balance out to where some stores will have them on shelves, but it won't be incredibly common like the SNES. And anyone that wants one will be able to wait at most a couple of weeks to pick one up if they put in the effort to look. The main difficulty will be finding extra controllers, as many people that got one last time are also in the market for those and Nintendo is obviously not making them anywhere close to one to one with the consoles and part of the fun is pulling it out to play with a friend or at a party.I have a feeling nintendo is going to flood the market with these things this time. I got my original release one out to play and ordered some extension cables and got a couple of extra controllers. I won't feel so guilty now about opening it since they are going to be everywhere. Still I prefer the original but the save states are awesome.