 Hopefully this is the last little bit of negativity surrounding Super Mario 3D All-Stars, although not entirely Nintendo's fault, and this is something that commonly happens, seemingly at certain retailers, without fail. It's baffling to me that we in 2020 have not figured out a better way to not let this happen, but retailers are always trying to jump the gun. Before I get into it, we are giving away three copies of Super Mario 3D All-Stars. Go to the Gleam.io link down in the description to enter for that. Winner announced October 1st, also we're giving away a Switch Lite, and then two second place winners get Nintendo Switch games of choice. We have a laundry list of ways to enter down below, including subscribing to the channel and a whole bunch of other stuff you guys can check out to enter for that contest as well. Winners for that are announced on October 1st as well. Alright, let's look at what's happening in the landscape of Super Mario 3D All-Stars. We've had quite a bit of news, or at least quite a bit of speculation, and quite a bit of interesting things. We know the game result this Friday. We know that its pre-orders are sold out basically everywhere, at least in the United States. There are still some retailers in other countries accepting pre-orders. We know that base.com, a UK retailer, cancelled all pre-orders because Nintendo couldn't guarantee them that they would get more games. The amount of stock they are getting are way lower, like extremely lower. They use the words woefully low in comparison. And we also know that other retailers are stating that they might get a second shipment, but they're not sure about a third shipment. We know Nintendo has officially stated that they are making this game available physically and digitally until March 31st. Some people are under the assumption that it just means a digital version is available to them physical and sooner. I have no idea. I would think Nintendo wants to keep the physical and stock at least through this holiday period, because that's a lot of sales that they would just be giving up for no reason. But what's worse is if you secured a pre-order, or there was a GameStop, which we linked the GameStop pre-order before, and Amazon pre-orders and stuff. We've linked the pre-order this game before. It's interesting because GameStop pre-orders are getting cancelled for some people, not everyone of course. This happens every time. Best Buy, Amazon, everyone, all the retailers that took pre-orders for this game are getting cancellations. I have seen several people contact me privately and freaking out that their pre-order is cancelled. What happens is Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, Target, Walmart, whatever, they take pre-orders and they take their pre-orders based on an expected amount of games they are going to get. They respect a certain amount of games sent to them. Nintendo might have gave them this expectation or the expectation is based on other prior big Nintendo game releases. So, they're able to gauge that, they can do also things like gauge the amount of views a trailer has to determine this is going to be a really popular game. Obviously, we know that the Super Mario 35th anniversary direct had millions upon millions of views. So, naturally, a lot of these people, a lot of these outlets, they go to order because they prepay for these games. They go to order them and they assume they're going to get their full order. They assume, hey, if we order 100,000 copies of this game, we presume we're going to have 100,000 copies available for pre-order. Or they make a certain amount available for pre-order, a certain amount available for store shelves. And then it happens, Nintendo gets back to them and says, hey, we're not actually going to ship you your full order because we don't have enough. We didn't make enough. We don't think it's actually going to sell that much. And that leads to these retailers having to cancel pre-orders. Now, you could argue the retailers shouldn't take pre-orders until they can confirm how many copies they're going to get, but we all know retailers are in a race against each other to get your business. And not all games like 3D All-Stars are going to sell out. As an example, Agile Calamity is still readily available to pre-order at most retail outlets. I can't think of one that hasn't sold out yet. And there was a race to get that pre-ordered. You want to be one of the first companies to get those pre-orders up. There are companies attempting to take pre-orders for Xbox Series Xs and Ss, even though Microsoft has publicly stated they're not available to pre-order until the 22nd. So like any company that's taking pre-orders now is being a little shady. They don't even know how many units they're going to get. They might end up with one. So they shouldn't really be taking those pre-orders, and that's maybe why Microsoft put a date on it because they want to give time to give retailers an opportunity to know how many units they're going to have to even throw out for pre-orders. But that's a conversation for a different video. We'll be talking about Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 later today because I want to talk about, you know, which one of those systems I plan to get, why things you should consider when buying one, etc. But I am frustrated when you see these pre-orders get canceled. It happens every time. Any major game that's sold out is going to have a bunch of pre-orders canceled. So you wake up today. You wake up tomorrow. You wake up the day of launch. It might find an email sitting in your inbox saying, hey, sorry, we can't fulfill your order, or hey, this is almost worse. We know you're pre-ordered, but your shipment's been delayed until October. Your shipment's been delayed until November. They just give some tentative data on when they think they're going to have more copies in. Amazon does this sometimes. And it gets really frustrating. But this is where I remind you guys. I just did a video on this yesterday. It's where I have to remind you that if your pre-order got canceled, you don't need to panic yet. You don't need to panic. It doesn't mean you can't get a physical copy on launch. I'm going to keep singing this till the cows come home. Go to your local retail outlets on launch, be there when the store is open, and you might be able to nab a copy. Walmart especially will have copies on store shelves, at least when the store opens. I know right now because of the pandemic, they're not 24 hours. It's not like you can go in the store and wait. For Wii U, I was at 8 hours before midnight. I went in, I was first in line for a Wii U. Inside the store, I got to wait for it. It wasn't a big deal. I had a good time. I played some 3DS, I think, and whatever. I just had a lot of fun sitting there and conversing with the employees about Nintendo goodness, and then obviously other Nintendo fans as they came to line up for Wii U. It doesn't look like you'll be able to do that this time around. Now, you might be able to line up outside the store, but I don't know if there's going to be that kind of line right now. With a pandemic and everything, I'm not so sure that lines are going to be a huge deal, although if you're in a city or a really densely populated area, obviously there's a high chance there might be a line for people trying to get it. And some of those people are going to be scalpers. Let's just be honest, some are going to be scalpers. I say try not to give the scalpers too hard of a time. Some retail employees are attempting to limit the amount of copies that a scalper can buy, or that anyone can buy. Some stores won't. But all I know is don't give them too hard of a time. I know that most of us hate scalping culture. It just makes things harder for legit consumers. But to be honest, they're a customer just like you and I, and anyone can do anything they want with a copy of the game that they buy. They want to resell it, they resell it, it's their right. So don't give them too hard of a time. Now, if they're trying to buy all the copies at the register, all right, that's a little extreme. And I hope that employees put a stop to it. Like if a scalper is first in line, hopefully Walmart doesn't just say, yeah, you can buy all 30 copies on the shelf, it's cool. Like I hope they don't, they don't do that. And hopefully with the number of people there, maybe the scalper might feel a little guilty, or maybe you'll end up making the scalper feel great, knowing the demand for it. Oh man, I'm going to make so much money reselling these. It's why I always say try not to buy a scalped copies online, because you're just, you know, supporting that. I understand that some people don't have the patience and they're going to do it. Like I can't wait, I got to spend the 10 extra bucks. That's not too bad, but I mean, let's be honest, they're going to be listed for $100. I, I'm just sorry. I'm sorry that your guys' computers can't cancel. I'm sorry that this is just the way the world works, but again, show up at the stores early. I mentioned Walmart, and I know not everyone likes Walmart, but Walmart and Nintendo have a deal, all right. All Nintendo games at launch and really after launch, if they're $60 games, release at $49. So about 10 bucks off at Walmart. This is, this has been true for, since sometime in 2019, there was a deal struck. It didn't really go public with it. It wasn't like this big hullabaloo. But it's been known for a while that Walmart has the games for $10 cheaper anyways. And the goal is obviously for Walmart, their benefit is they don't make a lot of profit. So basically Walmart cuts off their profit on the game to get you into the store. So they don't actually lose any money when you buy the game, but they figure you're in Walmart, you're going to walk by a whole bunch of stuff you might need or want to buy, and you're going to end up buying more stuff anyways. You're not going to come in for just the game. That's how Walmart can justify cutting out their profit on it. And so it's actually this nice deal that Walmart and Nintendo has in place. So it's a good place to get games anyways. Some people have been getting their games for 10 bucks off there for a long time. Now you have to go in person to get it. We're not talking online purchases, because it's an in-person incentive to try to get you into the store. But yeah. So again, you can still get your hands on it. You can still get your hands on it. I understand it's very, very disappointing to see pre-orders get canceled. And I obviously wish retailers wouldn't take more pre-orders than they get. Sometimes it is on the company's fault, like Nintendo's fault, because sometimes they don't even let retailers know until like, you know, three days. Basically when the shipment arrives that you're not going to have enough. But yeah. It's an unfortunate part of pre-order culture. And even if you got your pre-order in right away, I know one person in particular that literally when 3D All-Stars was like still going on in the Direct, they went to, I think, Best Buy.com and got a pre-order in. Their pre-order has been canceled. They were one of the first people to pre-order and they got canceled. So I don't know how they handle these canceled pre-orders. They do it based on obviously who ordered last. In this case, that wasn't obvious. That wasn't the case. But maybe they did it based on, you know, random selection. You know, just randomly in the computer. Randomly canceled. Randomly canceled. Just a computer program. I don't know. But I do know that it's unfortunate. But you still have a chance. You still have a chance. I personally do not have a pre-order in for this game. My plan is to be a Walmart at opening this Friday to get it. Now, it's a little difficult. My kids at school. So there's a little finangling that has to happen to pull it off. But my plan is to be there and getting it on Friday. Now, obviously it doesn't happen. I'll just buy digitally. But I prefer a physical copy. In this particular case, I do like digital games. But I prefer a physical copy just because of the collector's value on this one. It's a very nice game to just have, even if it's open, just to have, then say, hey, this is part of a collection. It was a limited run. It's cool. And I finally get to play, you know, finally get to, you know, fully explore Delphino Island. Because I only played it a little bit as a kid. So anyways, thank you guys for tuning in. Hopefully some more positive videos come in the rest of your day. Have a good one.