Here's When the Marth Amiibo Will Be in Stock Again

You'll soon have the opportunity to add Fire Emblem's Marth to your Amiibo collection without paying more than Nintendo intended.

Nintendo of America announced on Twitter today that more Marth figures will be available in stores "in late April." An exact date wasn't offered, but that provides us with a much more specific idea of when to expect it than the previous window of "later this year."

April remains unfortunately late for those hoping to use Marth with Code Name: STEAM when it releases this month. Several characters from developer Intelligent Systems' Fire Emblem series--Marth, Ike, Lucina, and Robin--will unlock corresponding characters for use in STEAM. (The Ike figure was released last month, with Robin and Lucina set for launch this spring.)

Marth was among the first wave Amiibo figures to quickly sell out in North America, making it all but impossible to find without turning to resellers on sites like eBay. Meanwhile, some figures that appeared to be available in much greater quantities have had their prices slashed.

Nintendo acknowledged in January that Marth figures were difficult to find and promised to restock them at some point in 2015. Since then, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has spoken further about when it will restock figures.

"It is difficult for us to promise to continuously ship all of the Amiibo figures," he said last month. "We will, however, consider additional production in cases such as when an Amiibo figure sells out shortly after launch, an Amiibo is indispensable to play a certain game, and when we receive a lot of requests for an Amiibo figure from consumers and retailers."

Marth would appear to tick all of those boxes, so even without the earlier promise of a restock, today's announcement isn't much of a surprise.