@Bread_or_Decide: When it doubt can't pre-order it, just go to you're electronic store early to buy SNES Classic which by the way, I'm looking to do since Target at my area isn't all that busy.
It's been the same with Amiibo, Nintendo just can't seem to get supply and demand right. Maybe it's their plan all along, limit supply to increase demand. But with the NES mini, they cancel production when demand is high. It's things like that that irritate me with Nintendo.
@Bread_or_Decide: When it doubt can't pre-order it, just go to you're electronic store early to buy SNES Classic which by the way, I'm looking to do since Target at my area isn't all that busy.
This reminded of the 360 release. Back in 2005, our area JUST got a new Wal-Mart in, probably not even two months old when November rolled around. It was always a desert whenever I went there, so I thought I'd be save in trying to get a 360 when I showed up at midnight. Turned out, everyone hit that place up hours before to get those pre-order tickets. Trust me, your Target location is already being taken into consideration by vultures.
@Bread_or_Decide: When it doubt can't pre-order it, just go to you're electronic store early to buy SNES Classic which by the way, I'm looking to do since Target at my area isn't all that busy.
This reminded of the 360 release. Back in 2005, our area JUST got a new Wal-Mart in, probably not even two months old when November rolled around. It was always a desert whenever I went there, so I thought I'd be save in trying to get a 360 when I showed up at midnight. Turned out, everyone hit that place up hours before to get those pre-order tickets. Trust me, your Target location is already being taken into consideration by vultures.
Yeah, they give out tickets to purchase it later. I went to my local best buy at 6am in April on the last day they made the NES available and by the grace of the gaming satans I got a pass for the mini nes. I imagine I'd have to get there at 5am for the mini snes, maybe 4am.
@Bread_or_Decide: When it doubt can't pre-order it, just go to you're electronic store early to buy SNES Classic which by the way, I'm looking to do since Target at my area isn't all that busy.
This reminded of the 360 release. Back in 2005, our area JUST got a new Wal-Mart in, probably not even two months old when November rolled around. It was always a desert whenever I went there, so I thought I'd be save in trying to get a 360 when I showed up at midnight. Turned out, everyone hit that place up hours before to get those pre-order tickets. Trust me, your Target location is already being taken into consideration by vultures.
Yeah, they give out tickets to purchase it later. I went to my local best buy at 6am in April on the last day they made the NES available and by the grace of the gaming satans I got a pass for the mini nes. I imagine I'd have to get there at 5am for the mini snes, maybe 4am.
I'm thinking of taking 9/29 off so I can try doing that stores that will have units for walk ins. Going to be hell on my stomach though. :(
Many of the crybabies are upset that they were not lucky enough to get or pre order a SNES Classic. The only thing wrong with how things are set up is the scalping culture for these items. If you wake up early enough on Sept 29 getting one of these should not be hard.
I still don't see the appeal, almost any ancient potato pc can emulate snes games if you want to play them. You can even play them in the living room if you want.
But then again I still have my snes with all these games in a box someplace. If the game cartridge's batteries haven't died my saves might still be good haha.
There is the collectors item aspect of it. SNES was Nintendo's ultimate peak. They owned that generation. SNES also birthed the PlayStation. The SNES was a game changer even though Coolyfett had the Sega Genesis during those days. Nintendo is not using these mini plug and plays as profit. They are collectors items. Shorting supply makes them *Special* Emulators are NOT special because anyone can do that. People want this because it is official games on an official Nintendo created plug and play device. Honestly the PlayStation TV is a pretty good alternative.
I don't understand all the hype and the anger of not being able to get one. You're being conned anyway.
I say this for a good reason. These systems use ARM hardware, not sure what the spec of the SNES mini is but the NES mini uses an ARM Cortex A7, similar to the Raspberry Pi 2. These chips are hundreds of times more powerful than the original 80's hardware.
You're paying for a fixed unit that is capable of so much more. You can't play other games on it unless you mod it, and it's all emulation anyway.
Why not just buy something like the Retron 5 instead?
Nintendo is a business. They care about meeting specific and (very) conservative projections to keep money in the bank to keep the company alive forever. They only have video games to rely on for revenue so they do not take risks that others might. They are very smart. They keep supply limited to insure that they do not have vast excess inventory that could make them lost money on product/labor costs. It really is not all that complicated. Good for Nintendo it insures that they will be around for us to complain about for many years to come.
There were reports a while ago that a major reason for Nintendo's supply problems was because of Apple hogging most of the components required by Nintendo.
Nintendo is a business. They care about meeting specific and (very) conservative projections to keep money in the bank to keep the company alive forever. They only have video games to rely on for revenue so they do not take risks that others might. They are very smart. They keep supply limited to insure that they do not have vast excess inventory that could make them lost money on product/labor costs. It really is not all that complicated. Good for Nintendo it insures that they will be around for us to complain about for many years to come.
"Vast excess inventory"?
Are you joking? Do you hold any concept as to how in demand this product is, much less the profit margin Nintendo is making on every unit sold? Nintendo would have to produce exponentially more than they are now, by the barge loads, before they'd even begin approaching risking excess inventory. That's so far removed from risk it's in the realm of absurdity.
There were reports a while ago that a major reason for Nintendo's supply problems was because of Apple hogging most of the components required by Nintendo.
At least with the Switch. But I think Nintendo's limiting themselves especially since no one cared to buy a Wii U. It's no wonder they're doing this now.
Many of the crybabies are upset that they were not lucky enough to get or pre order a SNES Classic. The only thing wrong with how things are set up is the scalping culture for these items. If you wake up early enough on Sept 29 getting one of these should not be hard.
Isn't that more of a problem with stores, than with Nintendo? If online stores would limit the quantity to 1 or 2 per address then there wouldn't be that much scalping.
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