Nintendo, once again, failed to learn from past mistakes and proceeded to manufacture an extremely limited and well-below demand number of SNES Classics. They did a similar thing with the NES Classic last year. Shortly after announcing the SNES Classic, Nintendo of America stated that they will make "significantly more" SNES Classics to handle the demand. Well, that is not true in the slightest. Pre-orders went live, unannounced today mind you, with extremely limited numbers (some stores only having 9 for pre-order).

U.S. retailers also share the blame for this. Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Amazon, Gamestop, etc. all proceeded to do surprise, unannounced pre-orders with their very limited stock. Even people who signed up to be notified by Amazon, Walmart, Bets Buy when the item was available for pre-order, received no notification at all.

right company, but wrong reason to DB them.


The SNES only has a 5 foot long cord from the controller to the console which makes it unplayable unless you sit right on top of your tv.

That right there is all you need to Dbag this.

right company, but wrong reason to DB them.


The SNES only has a 5 foot long cord from the controller to the console which makes it unplayable unless you sit right on top of your tv.

That right there is all you need to Dbag this.

i'm set up on amazon to receive an email notification when it's available. i think people misinterpreted that as getting a pre-order notification. as far as i know it's just supposed to happen when it actually hits their inventory. it'll probably be at some insane hour. i get up super early on fridays but not that early...hoping there will be a few hanging around on the site by 4:45am.

No, the email was for pre-order notifications. I just received an email from Amazon about the Xbox One X pre-orders being live. I went to Amazon and pre-ordered it without issue. Retailers screwed the pooch on the SNES Classic pre-orders.

If they would've announced when the pre-orders were going live, it would have been an even bigger clusterfuck. I got one, and it wasn't too difficult.

Do the internet better.

SNES Classic has 6 ft. cords...and they made the NES Classic have such short cords because, for some reason, they decided to not put a Home/Reset button on the NES Classic controller...thus, it necessitated sitting close to the console to use save features.

i'm not going out of my way to get one of these things...if it doesn't work out, so be it. there is no reason these fucking things shouldn't be stocking stuffers.

Fuck. Nintendo.

All gone by the time they opened. Same with Gamestop. I'm not doing a wild goose chase for these fucking things. This is ridiculous.

All gone by the time they opened. Same with Gamestop. I'm not doing a wild goose chase for these fucking things. This is ridiculous.