A new rumor has cropped up that ASDA, a huge supermarket chain in the United Kingdom, will stop carrying Nintendo products including consoles and games. According to the rumor, this comes as part of an eight week refresh of stock for the chain, so if your local ASDA hasn’t stopped carrying the products already, they will begin phasing them out soon.
The Wii U was already put on the ASDA chopping block way back in 2013, when the supermarket chain decided that the Wii U wasn’t popular enough to carry in its retail stores. Now it looks like the Nintendo 3DS and its multiple variants and games may be facing the same fate.
All asda stores will not be selling ds, 3ds, wii or wii u games in store as part of a range change in 8 weeks. Stores have been told to clear through at discretion with sale stickers. If your local store hasn’t done this yet, they may just be holding on a while, as they won’t get a credit for the markdown, and may be waiting on a central price change.
Of course, this is all based on rumor from employees discussing the upcoming stock refresh, but when ASDA dropped the Wii U in 2013, that started out as a rumor as well.