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[Boke1879]

WTF?

How much advance notice was given?

Best Buy was literally a tweet from Wario that's how we knew.

Then people just kinda assumed amazon would go up at some point.

 

[bananafactory]

WTF?

How much advance notice was given?

None?

 

[sixteen-bit]

WTF?

How much advance notice was given?

no official advance notice as far as I'm aware

It's a bad idea to give my card information to Gamestop, right?

there was a security breach last year that compromised cards. use paypal.

 

[thehellofitall]

I had no trouble preordering one with Game, back when it was first announced. The trouble others are having is making me worried though. Game aren't exactly reliable, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to find I won't actually be getting one for some stupid reason.

 

[CharminUltra]

Even tho I managed to get a US pre-order, I think I'll keep my EU backup pre-order as well. I grew up with the US design, but I find dat EU design much sexier.

 

[BiggNife]

Whelp, glad I still have my Amazon UK preorder

Holding out for Gamestop/Target/Walmart/TRU but I'm not particularly optimistic

(and yes, if I get a US one I'll cancel my EU one. I'm not trying to scalp, I just want a fucking system.)

 

[superdeluxe]

Obvious tip for newish folks: put Wario on twitter notification. He posts a ton of stuff, but you will be thankful for the snes

 

[Marcel]

Solid news when I clicked on the nowinstock link. Ebay apparently has stock available.

Hope you enjoy paying some homely scalper for his valuable time.

 

[commish]

I had Wario64 alerts set up for like 3 weeks, but a man can only deal with his phone vibrating every 5 minutes for so long.

Haha, I totally am with you there. I was actually asleep and it woke me up. I almost always turn it off while I sleep.

 

[molnizzle]

no official advance notice as far as I'm aware

No wonder I missed threads. I generally don't browse GAF when I'm asleep.

Ugh, fuck Nintendo so much for this. Such a piece of shit company when it comes to hardware.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Even tho I managed to get a US pre-order, I think I'll keep my EU backup pre-order as well. I grew up with the US design, but I find dat EU design much sexier.

plus, redundancy is safety; just in case either one gets walmarted

 

[Schucky Ducky]

Obvious tip for newish folks: put Wario on twitter notification. He posts a ton of stuff, but you will be thankful for the snes

Also, he's great for price glitches. He's the reason I was able to get all those crazy discounts on Prime Day.

 

[ThanksVision]

had this in my amazon cart then dropped it when i thought of my nes classic that has gone untouched for months... this thing is dumb, nintendo is dumb, i'm gonna use that money to buy mario and rabbids i reckon. good luck to those that want to acquire one of these, i know it isn't easy

 

[superdeluxe]

I killed the vibrating function and just did the banners, I'm up around 19 hours a day (thanks toddler that doesn't sleep!), and my phone is always by me.

 

[Minions]

No wonder I missed threads. I generally don't browse GAF when I'm asleep.

Ugh, fuck Nintendo so much for this. Such a piece of shit company when it comes to hardware.

I don't when I sleep either. But the discord sent like 10 notifications and woke me up. Gonna be a long day at work, but worth it.

 

[urge26]

Hope you enjoy paying some homely scalper for his valuable time.

SARCASM

 

[Setzer]

No wonder I missed threads. I generally don't browse GAF when I'm asleep.

Ugh, fuck Nintendo so much for this. Such a piece of shit company when it comes to hardware.

This. And fuck Best Buy and Amazon too for giving no advance notice when their pre-orders were going live.

 

[dragonyeuw]

I can forgive them for the NES classic. I can believe that they truly didn't know how much the demand would be.

If the same thing happens for the SNES, they are a terrible company.

All it shows is that they want to create hype and have people line up at the Nintendo store for months every single day trying to get one. It creates headlines when a product is driving people to go that far.

This isn't some high tech next gen device that is hampered by production issues.

It's just Nintendo being Nintendo. Shitty.

It's definitely to drive headlines. This is Nintendo's tickle me elmo, beanie babies, or whatever other popular toy there was driving people into a foaming animalistic frenzy. They have people scoping the popular social media sites and forums for feedback, including this site I'm sure. They know exactly what they're doing.

 

[lifeexpectancy]

so no east coasters can confirm if gamestop is doing in store preorders???

 

[NyMartin90]

So let's say when this Gamestop announcement happens, do they do online preorders for this? I never bought something from Gamestop's website before.

 

[ShadowKingpin]

so no east coasters can confirm if gamestop is doing in store preorders???

One or two pages back. Still waiting.

 

[Grady]

Have had one in my Best buy cart for hours. Waiting for it to go live again so I can get quick checkout. Sucks being able to add to cart and be denied when I go to pay. Should give you a chance to checkout. Like a 5 kinute window or something.

 

[Vyse The Legend]

so no east coasters can confirm if gamestop is doing in store preorders???

Not yet. Gamestop told their employees there would be an announcement later today. No ETA yet.

So let's say when this Gamestop announcement happens, do they do online preorders for this? I never bought something from Gamestop's website before.

Yes, online and in-store.

 

[Euphoria14]

So let's say when this Gamestop announcement happens, do they do online preorders for this? I never bought something from Gamestop's website before.

$250 bundle with console, special edition book, carrying case and various amiibos from SNES franchises.

 

[NyMartin90]

so no east coasters can confirm if gamestop is doing in store preorders???

special announcement happening later today.

 

[Afrocious]

So let's say when this Gamestop announcement happens, do they do online preorders for this? I never bought something from Gamestop's website before.

I don't see why not. Preorders are preorders.

 

[ShadowKingpin]

$250 bundle with console, special edition book, carrying case and various amiibos from SNES franchises.

No way they would be that generous. It would be plushies that only cost them 25 cents alongside a keychain that has Mario holding a SNES Mini and saying, "Got my SNES Mini.
Got yours?"

 

[friskykillface]

$250 bundle with console, special edition book, carrying case and various amiibos from SNES franchises.

They have lots of ness amiibos from the restock 👀

We are lucky there's no animal crossing snes or we'd get bundles with every animal crossing amiibo

 

[Kusagari]

Just check the thinkgeek website for whatever stupid Nintendo stuff they can't get rid of.

That's what will be bundled with it.

 

[zeemumu]

Best Buy was literally a tweet from Wario that's how we knew.

Then people just kinda assumed amazon would go up at some point.

I got the stock alert text before I saw Wario's tweet.

 

[Euphoria14]

They have lots of ness amiibos from the restock 👀

We are lucky there's no animal crossing snes or we'd get bundles with every animal crossing amiibo

"Get your Super Ness Classic today, only at GameStop!"

 

[LiK]

Just check the thinkgeek website for whatever stupid Nintendo stuff they can't get rid of.

That's what will be bundled with it.

G A M E S T O P B U N D L E B O I Z

 

[lifeexpectancy]

special announcement happening later today.

jesus fucking christ its like they are taking cues from Nintendo. Why not just give us a damn TIME? Some of us have shit to do and cant sit around all day refreshing goddamn web pages and twitter.

Sometimes I am tempted to just pay scalper prices for the simpme convenienceof not dealing with this anti-co sumer horseshit.

 

[AaronMT86]

Canada crew, any news?

 

[sotojuan]

The one day I am off work (so not chained to a desk w/ computer) and have activities outside for most of the day. Man, I have awful luck.

 

[zigg]

I don't trust the stock trackers I have open.

None of them have been emailing me…

 

[ZROCOOL]

Man, I'm probably gonna be asleep when Amazon drops the pre-order.

 

[CLICKCLICK]

This is a pretty bold statement, jr. You willing to put your new account on the line?

Yes, he had the time also for the Xbox One X press conference. I feel confident in this as long as Wal-Mart's preorder doesn't go up before that by accident.

 

[CollectedDust]

Man,I'm probably gonna be asleep when Amazon drops the pre-order.

uh... they have... and you were.

 

[neoemonk]

I don't trust the stock trackers I have open.

None of them have been emailing me…

I'm surprised you haven't coded up a Python bot yet

 

[RootCause]

Man, I'm probably gonna be asleep when Amazon drops the pre-order.

They already did. :/

 

[Euphoria14]

Man, I'm probably gonna be asleep when Amazon drops the pre-order.

Too late!

Snooze you lose.




I snoozed.

 

[Ghost Lynx]

Man,I'm probably gonna be asleep when Amazon drops the pre-order.

You may want to sit down for what I have to tell you...

 

[Vectorman]

Man, I'm probably gonna be asleep when Amazon drops the pre-order.

You were. It dropped at 5am EST this morning.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Man, I'm probably gonna be asleep when Amazon drops the pre-order.

Is this post from the past? Amazon dropped the preorder like 6 hours ago.

 

[CLICKCLICK]

In regards to the above, my original post said that the Walmart preorders are going up at 10 am PST, my buddy works for Walmarts e-commerce division.

Just wanted to surface this again since a lot of people are asking.

 

[Smellycat]

Amazon went up?

I stayed up till 3:30 and couldn't do it anymore. There is no way I would have lasted till 5 though.

I got one from Best Buy for a friend. I want one for me now.

 

[neoemonk]

Man, I'm probably gonna be asleep when Amazon drops the pre-order.

I was. It set the tone for my day so far.

 

[TheSuperSakura]

I don't trust the stock trackers I have open.

None of them have been emailing me…

I signed up for email alerts when the item was made available and I never received any from Amazon or best buy so I'm not relying on those anymore.

 

[reelbigtink]

Don't use email trackers. Use nowinstock's texting service.