It appears as though a number of high-profile retailers have completely stopped stocking the Wii U 8GB Basic package. Whether the stores are discontinuing reordering stock as the console isn’t selling as well as they had hoped remains to be seen. There was also rumour  a few months back that suggested that Nintendo were scrapping the Basic pack and introducing the 32GB Premium pack as the main model, but this has yet to materialise.

Thanks, Mario