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Zonic said:
*walks into Walmart & Meijer at 3:30 a.m., NOTHING for both stores aside from Walmart having a display thing telling you it exists*

*Amazon still has no update as to when it'll ship*

*feels bad for nothing being able to find SNES Mini for best friend since both of us have huge nostalgia for it but he still hasn't played some games on there like Super Mario RPG*

Damn it....
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Did Amazon ship for anyone? I was able to get one off of the Amazon Treasure truck so it's weird if they didn't ship to preorders. I have read online of a lot of people that didn't get their Amazon order.
 
Too bad there is no pokemon game on the snes mini i would have loved to play pokemon ruby on it.
 
Bitch Pudding said:
My setup.

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That's really cool but you are missing a Dreamcast mini lol
 
Creamium said:
In Bruges

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"Nog nooit gezien" indeed! Almost seems like an insider joke, or the first honest form of advertising ever, as most of us have indeed "never seen" as many of these (or NES minis) in one place (unless you happen to be or know a bot-powered scalper...) ;-)
 
lifetimeofnot said:
They don't have those anymore. Trust me, I stopped at a walmart that had 2 this morning and they claimed they sold them all so: they were stolen, employees are hoarding them or they suck at inventory.
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I figured as such, but considering I live only about 2 minutes away from Walmart, Target, AND Gamestop, I almost wanted to check, but considering I tried Walmart & Meijer around 3:30 a.m. & saw nothing, there's no chance they'd have them at this hour.

I'm debating contacting Amazon at this point despite knowing others on here have done so & will probably just get the same results of "well it'll probably ship/arrive around Oct. 11th".

I feel bad because I ordered a second one from Amazon for my best friend & figured if I could find at least one in town, it would be for him since he's not as internet savvy as me & it'd be easier for me to get one for myself than him trying to find one himself due to his limited internet & less free time.

Socivol said:
Did Amazon ship for anyone? I was able to get one off of the Amazon Treasure truck so it's weird if they didn't ship to preorders. I have read online of a lot of people that didn't get their Amazon order.
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Doesn't seem so, no. Hell, our orders haven't even been updated, it still says "we'll email you when we have an estimated delivery date"
 
I'm deployed.

A friend of mine happen to go to Best Buy and there were several left.

Friend asked me if I wanted it or not.

Wifi cuts in and out so I my answer didn't go through to get for a while.

Friend ended up picking one up for me anyways.

I have a good friend.
 
I followed up with the Best Buy I was at this morning that did not hand out tickets at 7am. The manager said their policy was they would hand out tickets after you had been in line for at least 2 hours, and conveniently, that was after 8am. I showed them the Best Buy email about 7am ticket handouts and they said that this was not their corporate policy.
 
I never really thought much about it as a kid. But SNES NA design was cutting edge and solid in the 90's but hasn't aged gracefully and classically like the EU version.

Either way loving this. Wish I could have gotten an NES version somehow.
 
Ravek said:
I'm deployed.

A friend of mine happen to go to Best Buy and there were several left.

Friend asked me if I wanted it or not.

Wifi cuts in and out so I my answer didn't go through to get for a while.

Friend ended up picking one up for me anyways.

I have a good friend.
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wow, awesome friend!
 
Flo_Evans said:
I really don't understand the supply constraints with these stupid things. I can sort of understand with a new console but wtf.
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because production lines aren't cheap to ramp up, and you have to try and forecast and supply over time?

imagine it this way:

Nintendo started on NES classic for last holiday --- was under confident in themselves on it. New venture, risky, production line, new molds, etc etc. Started small.

Blows up, super popular, they ramp up more production and keep the business going.

They discontinue the NES because those production lines are needed for SNES to ensure they have plenty for release and throughout the holiday. Even now, they are probably building SNESes that will be showing up on shelves in December... and they'll keep building them to supply into 2018.

At some point, they'll then flip the lines back to NES (or perhaps, to a mixed supply lines of both consoles) to re-supply NES next summer.


The point is, you have to get demand right over the long term and build supply over time. Trying to fulfill all the demand on day 1 is not the most efficient way to do it --- in fact, it's far more expensive, because either you need far more manufacturing than you do in the long run, or you need to then warehouse a ton of product for a long time.


This is why EVERY console doesn't have endless supply at launch, every iPhone doesn't have endless supply at launch, things like Airpods. These production lines are built to go year round and satisfy demand.
 
So this whole getting up to hit Reset to rewind and add a save state really sucks, huh? I didn't have an NES Mini so this is new to me. In addition to adding ROMs, do you think it could feasibly be modded to allow a controller shortcut for this function? Like A+B+Start+Y or something.
 
I'm really liking this Attract Mode that's a combination of the different games' Attract Modes, and snippets of your actual playing. It's really well done.
 
Laws00 said:
Apparently from what i'm hearing is the Snes Classic Hori Fighting Commander wireless pad is a piece of shit.

it's spotty and disconnects. You need to be at close range to get any kind of decent reception and even then it's still bad.

Probably need to wait till a 2nd revision comes out or something
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Damn, anybody else have one. Amazon hasn't shipped mine yet so I may just cancel.
 
Got mine this morning at a best buy. They handed out tickets, I got 76. They still had a ton of tickets when I got there. Got there about an hour before the store opened and they started to let us in early a few at a time to buy them. Bunch of guys behind me had already gone to three stores and got a bunch of them and wanted more to sell.

Can't believe I actually got one.
 
chronomac said:
So this whole getting up to hit Reset to rewind and add a save state really sucks, huh? I didn't have an NES Mini so this is new to me. In addition to adding ROMs, do you think it could feasibly be modded to allow a controller shortcut for this function? Like A+B+Start+Y or something.
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Yes, it was integrated into hakchi.
 
None of the tracking sites show anywhere having them in stock. GameStop has a few locations that say they have them. The closest one to me isn't on the list. Is this bogus?
 
Got Wal-Mart support and after reminding them that this is the second time this has happened, they assured me that the mail was sent out as a precaution but that mine was shipping out today.

I have no email to show for this yet but they said it would be "coming soon". I've got logs just in case.

This feels so fucking extreme. It's $80 for a goof off toy. I want it real bad, sure, but I'm more mad at how my orders have been treated than not getting the system.
 
Flo_Evans said:
I really don't understand the supply constraints with these stupid things. I can sort of understand with a new console but wtf.
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The supply doesn't seem very constrained to me. Unfortunately, you have scalpers and their friends and families scooping up multiples by hitting different stores at opening and then you have tons of people buying multiples for "gifts". Despite all that, in many areas it seems like if you made some effort, you probably could have gotten one this morning. Certainly this launch was easier than the NES Classic even if the preorders were and for some retailers are still a mess.
 
HCgamer said:
I got off work at 11:30 am headed to nearby best buy store I was told I could not buy it without a ticket at that time at 1 pm they would sell it to people without tickets I asked if they would have he did not give me a definite answer made it sound like they have enough. I left there is a walmart in same shopping center I went in asked where the gaming department is employee knew why I was there told me a horde of people were there at 6 am they were sold out twenty minutes before 1 pm I went back to best buy there was a long line there was no line when I stopped by before 12 pm I felt so dumb I got in line at 1 pm best buy started selling snes classic minis strict 1 per person limit I bought mine the line was long it seemed everyone in line was getting their snes classic minis.
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No offense, but... man, punctuation could really help your story, yikes.
 
chronomac said:
So this whole getting up to hit Reset to rewind and add a save state really sucks, huh? I didn't have an NES Mini so this is new to me
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I use a long HDMI cable and bring the SNES Mini over to the couch when I'm gonna play on it. Did the same with the NES Mini (also because it had so short controller cables).
 
Dr.Acula said:
Has anyone turned around on Ninty since it seems like they're going to be meeting demand, or was the protracted lead-up and lack of communication from retailers a permanent souring for some of you?

Personally, I've been fine with Nintendo throughout the years.
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lol, so reading this thread this afternoon has been quite a journey. And it started out so smoothly :(
 
Admiral Snackbar said:
Got Wal-Mart support and after reminding them that this is the second time this has happened, they assured me that the mail was sent out as a precaution but that mine was shipping out today.

I have no email to show for this yet but they said it would be "coming soon". I've got logs just in case.

This feels so fucking extreme. It's $80 for a goof off toy. I want it real bad, sure, but I'm more mad at how my orders have been treated than not getting the system.
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So wait, you got a "your item has been backordered" email but rep said it's actually shipping today? wtf?
 
I can’t help but wonder if ThinkGeek is still in the process of a true up on orders from last night against available inventory... I need to stop reading this thread it’s making me nervous!
 
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