 Hey everyone, so have you ever wanted a product so bad that the mere act of whether or not you can pre-order it is Extremely frustrating. That's the way it feels for me right now with the super Nintendo Entertainment system classic edition this SNES classic edition. We know it's coming. We know it's releasing in a few months We know it's gonna be supposedly in in higher demand maybe than the original NES classic edition But we know that Nintendo is going to be providing more units for it than they did for the original Just based on their experience and that sounds fine. That sounds dandy But one thing in the United States that's been happening is it's been nearly impossible to find a pre-order of it It's almost like no one's taking pre-orders See last year basically as soon as the NES classic edition was announced like same day or next day There was pre-orders available. Well with the SNES classic edition that hasn't been happening Except for Walmart. So out of nowhere the other day Walmart put up pre-orders for the super Nintendo entertainment classic edition and that's that's fine. That's great. Everything sounds wonderful except that It didn't go off without a hitch outside of the fact that again these retailers keep Releasing pre-orders without giving you any information, right? There's no there's no Warning that hey, we're gonna have pre-orders opening up for this tonight. It's just it's really frustrating There are a lot of people that miss on our pre-orders because of it The pre-orders this surprisingly lasted a long time in the past the pre-orders, you know for something like this Especially a one retailer will be done in five minutes and I was able to pre-order a unit You know for three straight hours now I personally did not pre-order a unit because something felt fishy to me that these pre-orders were available at Walmart Well, no one else did it and it turns out maybe it was good for me to do that Or to not pre-order from it because it sounds like Potentially the pre-orders for the super Nintendo entertainment classic edition went up by mistake and I say this because there are many many reports many reddit threads many people complaining on forums that their order was canceled some of them claim it's canceled because they entered the wrong credit card information and they weren't given an Opportunity to re-enter the credit card information to get the right stuff Some people didn't have enough money in their bank when they went to pre-order it because a lot of times You know like on Amazon when you pre-order an item you don't have to pay for it right then It just kind of does a check to see if you even have money And then it'll won't charge you until the item ships which I think is totally fine Because they don't want people hogging up pre-orders that really can't afford it And aren't going to be able to pay for it when it comes time to pay them the bill So that's fine like whatever that's people having their own issues with their finances Trying to pre-order this thing without any warning. Okay, fine, you know, that's one reason I didn't pre-order I didn't want to tie up any of my current finances in it or have to pay pay for it right now when I Can't afford it right now. I could probably afford it by the time it comes out, but today. No, not really So whatever like that's all on individuals, but there's other people that have just had it canceled because you know they Reported the Walmart oversold the amount of stock that they're going to have so Walmart's just canceling And one representative said that uh to someone that the pre-orders weren't even supposed to be up yet So they're going to be canceling all of the pre-orders and and refunding anyone they charged Uh, well other representatives are saying, yeah, well, you know, it was a mistake But we are going to have them available. Anyway, so we're just going to let the pre-order stand And right now there are people who still have pre-orders that haven't been canceled While there's a large number of people that have had them canceled. I I don't know what's going on It sounds crazy. I'm glad I avoided that whole situation Uh, and we'll be relying on hopefully amazon or someone else If they get pre-orders up because this is something interesting to talk about the fact that pre-orders don't exist already Is really really fishy, but the fact that one retailer accidentally put it up that led to people talking to target Right, and they asked target, you know target put up a thing saying hey So when the classic comes out, you know, look forward to pre-ordering and now they target to say oh wait You can't pre-order and they're saying oh wait. Well, we don't have any news on pre-ordering But we do know hey, you'll be able to pre-order the system quote unquote soon Please keep checking our website and they said all this on twitter and It's all frustrating to me because it doesn't answer the question people have Here's the bottom line A lot of people want the super nintendo entertainment classic edition even at the price tag of 79 99 They want it. They want those 21 games. They see value in it This all hitting before there's even a virtual console and switch makes it even more appealing prospect Plus, you know, you have nostalgia and the fact that man the super nintendo in my opinion Has like the best game lineup ever and the game lineup on the super nintendo entertainment classic edition is pristine Yes, there's titles. I wish it had but i'm sure there's titles that you guys wish it had that I don't care for So it is what it is. It's fantastic. I like it. I want one They did their job there and they're giving me two controllers in the box. That's fantastic, but The fact that there's all these issues of pre-orders already Makes me wonder if they just shouldn't do pre-orders at all Uh, and I know that sucks because that means day one when it comes out You better be there. You better be online refreshing all these websites. I have midnight. You better be waiting out at those retailers but again To me that's a better solution than what's happening now where it feels very unfair because We all know when the super nintendo entertainment classic edition is coming out We can all call our local retailers and find out. Are you going to do a midnight launch for this system? Are you you know going to? Allow us to stand in line and camp out like we can find out ahead of time ask off work and plan our lives around A day one release even if you know plan our lives around staying up till midnight with all the various sites open Hitting that refresh button and getting those orders in it gives everyone a fair chance To attempt to get it and I know we can crash websites and this and that and that ends up being a frustrating experience as well But at least if that happened to me and I wasn't able to get one I could say hey look at least I had an equal shot at it like everybody else To get it before the site crashed or before whatever happened happened or I could have camped out Instead the pre-orders went up randomly for wal-mart and now they're not taking them down They're not canceling all the orders. Who knows what's going on? Target now says they're going to have pre-orders going up soon But you think they're going to announce it. You think they're going to give everyone a warning when it's going to come up Amazon's probably going to eventually get pre-orders You know game stop all the major retailers are going to start having pre-orders But it feels like there's not going to be any announcements and if there is an announcement, right? It'll come in the form of like a press release email like game stop could send me an email being like Hey come pre-order the super nintendo classic edition except the problem is it will have probably already been available for pre-order for several hours And be sold out before I even get the email in my inbox and that's that's kind of the issue We run into here is that I don't mind when Things are available for pre-order and they sell out right away My issue is that there isn't any warning giving to consumers so they can plan accordingly Even if you can't get off work, you can plan to have your break Around the time that something was going to happen or you could check your phone quick and hit that amazon shopping cart Like three seconds, you know as you take a yawn break or a bathroom break or whatever the case may be Depending on what your job is it's it's a frustrating thing that The nes classic edition turned some people off from even attempting to get that the snes classic edition And that's sad because I think the desire to have these systems is is really really high And there has to be a better way to do this. There is a better way to do this And again, it looks like the situation is going to be even worse Um My only hope is that my local game stop or war mart is going to have Units of it available for retail day one or they all allow me to pre-order units coming to the store Um, you know right away like I was able to do for breath of the wild like when they announced breath of the wild It was pre-orders will be available You can go online and get them now But if those pre-orders sold out like the moment the game was announced you could instead Go to the store the next day at opening and pre-order in person And that at least gave people hours like 12 hours notice to be like, hey, look, you know, you can you can plan accordingly Versus I was at work. I didn't even know the thing was available. I came home. It's sold out. I'm mad That's what happened with wild mart. It's probably gonna happen with target and game stop and amazon It's just a frustrating experience. I know pre-order culture is you know, not Not always something that people subscribe to but in the world of nintendo, they really made pre-order culture matter Imagine that you're not some you're someone who didn't pre-order a switch Even if you ended up getting the switch, you know, how long did you have to wait? How hard was the process? Some of you might have got lucky and just walked in the store and there happened to be one there But I know many friends who you know call around and refresh and they're still trying to get one It's a frustrating experience if you didn't have one pre-order because they were under the assumption that Yeah, I can't get one day one or week one, but by the end of march I should be able to find them on store shelves, right? Well, no And the super nintendo classic edition is even worse because we know it's going to be another limited run And there probably will not be enough units for every single person who wants one And we this before we get to the scalper market. So Uh It is what it is. I'm just frustrated already And I haven't even attempted the pre-order one yet. So Anyways, you guys let me know how you think they should handle the pre-order situation Or if they should just not have pre-orders available for the system at all Let me know your ideas down in the comments below as always I am Nathaniel Ruffleschamps from nintendo prime if you like this video, you know what to do If you dislike this video hit that dislike button. Otherwise folks, I will catch you in the next one