Wafflecakes
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Ugh. I may want to go for this.
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NES Classic Edition Thread: Now You're Playing With Power* *Sold Separately in Europe
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Guardian Monkey
Member
You will be able to find them anywhere a week after this probably
Wafflecakes
Member
I want to get one for my brother and his kids for Xmas unfortunately.
I can wait for one for myself.
Guess I am going to be standing in line. This is for Tuesday, right?
Dr Duncan Steel
Member
Anyone in SF gonna go to the Best Buy in Geary street?
Cause we will probably fight. Hands up, motherfuckers.
Cause we will probably fight. Hands up, motherfuckers.
One guy on cheapassgamer said his Best buy will have about 50, I suggest calling your bestbuy today and see if they give you a number of amount they will have. I'm gonna call today if they have a lot I might show up, i'm in a nice sized city with two Best buys 20 mins a part, then there is like 3 others in the city.
Gamecocks625
Member
Godspeed guys
Marty Chinn
Member
I was just about to post this and I didn't even see the tweet. I just happened to try and it was available!
Yeah I saw the tweet and was able to order. Almost didn't get to bc main product page still showed unavailable initially but was able to from main site.
royalroyal
Member
hey gamestop has them!
gone
lol gone
I wanted the wireless controller, my gamestop order from last week is coming today so i'm not to upset about missing it lol
Feeroper
Member
100% agreed. This is clearly a business move. It's just disappointing that they are doing this at the expense of their fans. I guess its just business though.
Marty Chinn
Member
Gone? Still says available or does it get removed when you check out?
SpiceMelange
Member
I've been arguing this for a while now, but most people can't fathom why would Nintendo sacrifice sales of a $60 system-on-chip thing.
It gets removed.
Tribes of Trusty
Member
With what filter are you guys playing ? I quite like the CRT one, it's less hard on the eyes I think...
sixteen-bit
Member
For everyone trying Best Buy tomorrow:
If you're thinking of getting in line after midnight tonight, you're not going to get one.
Let me be clear: at this point, it's the last opportunity to get one before Christmas
and parents are not going to disappoint their kids.
There are ALREADY 3 people in line at my local Best Buy.
Bundle up, grab a friend, grab a chair, and get to waiting.
Good luck to you all!
If you're thinking of getting in line after midnight tonight, you're not going to get one.
Let me be clear: at this point, it's the last opportunity to get one before Christmas
(unless you're going to pay 300%+ markup on Craigslist)
There are ALREADY 3 people in line at my local Best Buy.
Bundle up, grab a friend, grab a chair, and get to waiting.
Good luck to you all!
Lasthope106
Member
I find that simply insane. My time and health are more valuable than a videogame console.
How did you get stock numbers? The guy on the phone refused to tell me how many they had.
Also anybody know what time they pass out tickets?
I'll show up and if it tickets are all gone, i'll go home and go back to bed, not staying overnight, Bestbuy is only like 5 mins away from me
So are mine, which is why I passed on this completely.
Certain stores do things differently. I got two stores within 10 miles of each other; one wouldn't even tell me if they got any in, the other told me they had 65 on hand and will start giving out tickets at 6 AM. That's also the one that already has 3 people standing in line.
65 wow, 6 am ok so I might go a lil before 6 and see if I can get a ticket, if not back to bed for me lol
Feeroper
Member
Agreed with this. It is depressing that things are like this, and I don't mean that as a slight to anyone who is willing to wait in line, more that Nintendo has allowed this to happen - whether you think it is intentional like I do, or really poor forecasting, its a sad state of affairs.
I know that this is just a novelty item, its superficial, and no one has any kind of "right" or entitlement to be able to purchase this and its ultimately just business to Nintendo. However, regardless of that, one has to consider that even with that being the case, there is a certain amount of stress that this places on some people, especially the parents who were hoping to share the magic of the NES they had when they were young with their kids on Xmas morning, or the parents who just desperately don't want to disappoint their children this Xmas, or even chumps like me who just want play this little device in its nostalgia inducing packaging. We all know there are much more serious and worse things happening in the world, much more worthy of our attention, but even with all that, this is still disappointing and sad. Especially considering that this is something that should bring a little bit of joy to people.
SpiceMelange
Member
I refuse to dance like a monkey to Nintendo's amusement. I won't buy one until I can simply walk in a Walmart in the middle of the day and grab one of the shelves. If that won't ever happen well too bad.
Awesome. Back to gamestop I go with all this junk
perfectchaos007
Member
Yeah I've changed my mind. I don't want to wait 8 hours in 30 something degree weather tonight to get one from Best Buy. The 12 people who camp out overnight deserve it, and I'll just wait till after the Holidays to get one
Gamecocks625
Member
I can't imagine waiting outside for over 8 hours when it's as cold as it is outside. Waiting an hour and a half was doable the other day at GameStop but still...couldn't have stayed outside when it was below freezing for more than that.
sixteen-bit
Member
wow, the thirst is real.
perfectchaos007
Member
Holy crap. And there may only be 12 available. Guess I'm already too late.
That's an awesome glass full of nope right there.
I camped out ONE TIME. It was for the PS3. 3 days and my brother and I were numbers 3 and 4 in line. Never again. We had a tent and sleeping bags and it was not only cold, but windy and raining.
I sold my PS3 two weeks later because my mom needed the money. He sold his a week after that. (I think we made about $400 total profit all together.)
Didn't buy another PS3 until Jan of 2013.
I'm not doing this for a piece of nostalgia, no matter how bad the kid in me wants it.
