 man you know we all knew this was gonna happen right it's not as if we're so stupid as to believe that the SNES classic edition was going to go up for pre-order with some notice I mean yeah sure Nintendo told us earlier this month that it would be available for pre-order later this month at various retailers but that then put it in the retailers hands to let us know hey look we're gonna have SNES classics available today and when did that news become available today after pre-orders went up in fact the frustrating part about all of it is that even if you wanted to go in person to a store to to order one you know say you had a local game stop that wasn't open until 10 a.m. which is the case for me and the pre-orders opened up in the middle of the night online which again they did specifically on Amazon and while that's going on right people are going nuts I'm sleeping okay I'm also a father so I wake up I'm making breakfast with my kids I take them outside to play haven't had a lot of time to check the internet all of a sudden I check and I'm like oh crap it was available to pre-order online already I better rush out to game stop quick and get that right when they open well lo and behold I get to game stop rolling around 1015 and the SNES classic is already sold out now you can call me a bad consumer I mean I should have known right I should have known that any day now which I did know that the SNES classic was going to become available and I should have been refreshing and should have been crazy but I didn't and I didn't know because there was no warning there wasn't an email sent out yesterday like GameStop I'm a rewards member GameStop could easily send out an email say hey look starting tomorrow at store opening you can pre-order the SNES classic edition and even if the online orders had gone up at midnight at least if I didn't get one of those I couldn't went in the store and the same is true for for places like Amazon Target Walmart pretty much anywhere that's selling SNES classic edition no one knew when they were going to go up no one had any warning and because of that they sell out and they were gonna sell out anyways we all knew this SNES classic edition was going to sell out at launch and obviously you know the big question is how much stock is there going to be of the system after launch you know how many units are going to be restocking the launch but the problem with this and the reason it's upsetting people is without warning it means that it left the door open for even more and more scalpers now obviously when there is warning it also opens the door up for more scalpers but we have to be honest with ourselves when we're talking about that it with more and more people fighting to get at the chance of scalpers grabbing a whole bunch of them would be slim to none and now if you go over to eBay oh my god the listings for SNES classic editions are insane there's hundreds of them and it's just a sickening feeling in my stomach to know that that might be the only way I can get a hold of one now we were critical of Nintendo from the NES classic edition and why the reason they discontinued it and when they discontinued it when they still hadn't reached a man and I understand the idea of a limited edition product but man they promised it would be different this time it still wasn't any different it still sold out within minutes of being available and you know the big change is going to be how often is it restocked and how many more units are they going to be sending throughout the end of this year I don't know hopefully one day I'll just be able to walk into a game stop and pick one up or walk into a Walmart or Target or a Best Buy or Toys R Us it's just insane to me that it is 2017 and it is still okay for retailers to just throw things up just throw them up without warning on a product you know is going to sell out immediately and that's what sucks if I had known ahead of time went to all the various websites and still didn't get a pre-order in and missed out the site didn't load they were sold out fine at least I had a fair shot along with the millions of other people maybe trying to get your hands on one of these but that's not what happened instead the advantage went to people who happened to be up at the time who saw their Twitter feed who you know are scalpers and have been waiting for this thing to come out the advantage was basically not there for anybody of all except those that were lucky enough to be awake at the time the pre-orders went up and it's just a really frustrating thing not just frustrating because again another classic system comes out that I'm probably not going to own you know I don't own the NES classic edition I'm probably not going to be able to own the SNES classic edition because I highly doubt I'm going to find it in my area or online and you know unless I get lucky in prime you know Amazon sends me email and they have some available just for prime members that's fine I mean maybe I'll get lucky that way but I am just incredibly frustrated right now that here we go again and I wonder how soon it's going to be before the idea of a classic system really starts to sour on people who want one because we all know either next year or soon thereafter there's gonna be a Nintendo 64 classic edition that's probably going to be $99.99 and it's going to be in super high demand even to say it only has 15 games but if those 15 games are like literally the best games ock in your time Majora's Mask, Super Mario 64, Golden Eye, Cogger's Bad Fur Day if they could somehow wrestle that from Microsoft and Banjo Kazooie and like all these other classic N64 games if they bring those in the system it's going to sell like hotcakes at $99.99 and we're going to be talking about the same thing again a year from now about how retailers are just stupidly throwing up these pre-orders without concern and I get it from their perspective it's a product they know is going to sell out so they don't feel like they need to let people know when it's going to be available for pre-order and that's fine at the end money is money and the retailer and Nintendo are going to get their money either way but I just feel like we live in an age where consumer courtesy should start to be considered especially when you know you're already going to get the money regardless how hard would have it been to shoot out a mass email update or to put out a tweet about it or something give it give some sort of warning it's coming it really wouldn't have cost you hardly anything at all to do that and it's the same thing with cross play like cross play isn't needed but it's a convenience for consumers and that's the same case here this is a convenience for consumers who have been waiting all month like me for these pre-orders to go up it's just a frustrating thing here we are again I only hope Nintendo is right and they and they said they were going to have more stock of this and restock it quicker and I hope they're correct and maybe these frustrations are just pre-order culture and a week later I'll be able to walk in the storm pick one up anyways but until then I assume it's not going to happen and I assume we'll be fighting for these things all holiday long Nintendo's probably again gonna extend manufactured into the spring and again cut it off before everyone who wants one gets one because they do want to keep it a limited product they like this holiday rush for this you know quote-unquote stocking stuffer and it sucks it sucks it sucks it sucks it sucks it sucks it sucks this is the put this is the part of Nintendo that I hate and well this isn't Nintendo's fault there's obviously going to be a limited amount of these available at launch it's still like retailers man be better be better for the consumers that give you the money anyways I am a frustrated nathan your awful chance from Nintendo Prime if you like this video you know what to do if you dislike 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