 So, today we're going to start off with a story that I wanted to tell about how thankful I am to Nintendo for how they have handled the SNES Classic Edition. I've been critical of Nintendo's handling of the NES Classic Edition and I was critical of the SNES Classic Edition's pre-order issues. So, yes, Nintendo did it. They have fought back against scalping, fought back against their own underestimating of the market with the NES Classic and they are providing more than ample supply of SNES Classics so far and it looks like they have plans to continue to supply the chain of demand for months to come. Which is excellent news. Thank you, Nintendo. You actually did something I didn't think you were going to do. I thought you were just doing a bunch of PR speak when Reggie Fesame came out and said, hey, look, we're going to massively restock quicker, have more stock available and provide a heck of a lot more stock and a heck of a lot more total units than they did for the NES Classic. Now, the NES Classic Edition worldwide, so combined sales were 2.5 million units. SNES Classic is probably going to shatter that because even with all these huge amounts of stock, they are selling out. And that's good. That means that the demand and the supply, the supply being in such a high amount and the demand being in such a high amount are almost being met and with regular restocks coming, I don't foresee this being an issue in the future. And the reason I say this purposely is to combat against scalpers is because, one, Reggie Fesame literally said, do not buy from scalpers, we will have ample stock. So, Reggie already said they obviously recognize that there's an issue with the scalping market in North America. On top of that, we have people like CND. Now, for those who don't know who CND is, he's Captain Nintendo dude. He has his own YouTube channel. You guys probably know him more than my own channel. He's got a couple hundred thousand subscribers. He was the first person, I kind of blew up around the time, he was the first person to get a Nintendo Switch officially in North America. Obviously, there were people that got it sooner, but you know what I mean, like the official, if you're looking at world records, there's always like steps you have to go through and he got, he was the first person in line at the Nintendo New York store. He waited a whole month out in line. He took over for Triforce Johnson, who currently owns a world record for the most Nintendo first, you know, being the first person to get it in North America. But whatever, it was really cool. He seems like a good guy and he was out there for the SNES Classic. He did 10-day early wait in New York at the Nintendo New York store and things were going fine. He was first in line, everything was going great and they threw like this 90's party where 150 people would get wristbands to go to this 90's party and obviously those 150 people would be the ones allowed to buy the SNES Classic Edition at Midnight. And everything seemed fine. They were supposed to come out and hand out wristbands. They announced they were going to come out early for wristbands. They were supposed to do the fourth and the end of the 215. And this happened. I seriously recommend don't go down there at all. Don't do, like, if you're going to do the seventh... No, no, no, no, seriously, they're going to do something. They're yelling. I hear yelling in there. We'll get in there. I hear yelling. No, I'm scared. I don't want to be involved in that. I have my wristbands. A whole bunch of cops come out and stuff. All the scalpers made it way too dangerous so they told us they're shutting it down. They're clearing out the entire line for tonight. PM, Nintendo New York tweeted out that the wristbands were going to be handed out at 215 instead of 4 because there was already so many people. That kind of threw everyone into a little bit of a frenzy but they started handing them out. So obviously I got mine and about 60 other people got theirs as well. Then we get to my friend Jacob. He was in line, he got his, and then things started to get a little spicy. Oh my God, Jacob, explain what happened. Okay, so I was around 50th in line and about 10 to 20 spots behind me. Just a bunch of people just cut the line as soon as they started giving out the wristbands. So after it got me 10 down, there was just yelling and all this stuff and the managers giving out the wristbands were just like, No, can't do this anymore. We don't know who's supposed to be in line and so they just went back into the store and it was hectic and I just left the situation to, I didn't want to be a part of that. At this point, managers are inside, they can't hand out any more wristbands. They don't know what is happening. A whole group of angry people, some that cut the line, some that didn't all swarm in right into the Nintendo store, right there. They're right in that area when you walk in. They literally start to surround the two managers. It's getting a little hostile. We can hear yelling and arguing from inside. Eventually one police officer shows up, tries to simmer it down. Everyone's just, basically everyone's demanding for wristband at this point. A few minutes after that, we get about five or six other cops that go in there and they tell everyone, you have to leave. You have to get out of the store. Unless you're a legitimate customer, you have to get out of the store. Now the police and the few of the managers come out of the store and they tell everyone online that we have to clear it out. It's become unsafe. They can't do it anymore, so everyone all the way down the block that got wristband or not had to leave. So obviously these scalpers thought they were going to make a lot of money. But if they did any bit of research, they would have seen that Nintendo said multiple times, hopefully to get around the craziness, they will have them in stock. Reggie even said, yo, we're going to have them in stock. Don't buy them off scalpers. You'll be fine. It is Saturday and they're still lining up. They are still selling them. They did it all day Friday, all day today Saturday. Who knows how long they're going to keep doing it for. They have plenty in stock. And I'm really hoping that it's still the case because then these scalpers will not make any money off of them. So for those wondering, scalpers were really messing things up and it came to the line to get the SNES Classic Edition. They were causing issues at the back of the line. They were trying to cut in line. They were even getting in the face of Nintendo employees about trying to get their hands on this thing all because they were hoping to make all this money on it. And the market for it has quickly sank. Initially around 1205, 12010, I saw some postings of the SNES Classic Edition for as much as $300. And now we've rapidly seen those decline. I think the last posting I saw was around $100, $120, which is not much of a markup. But trust me, don't dive in. The reason the prices are sinking is because there are so many of them out there. People don't need to buy from scalpers. Don't give these scalpers extra money. Save your money for Nintendo. Don't buy from scalpers until Nintendo's done making the system and you can't find it brand new anymore on store shelves. But right now it's in plentiful stock. And I'm sold through them. Finally, Nintendo has done something about a stock situation and done it correctly. Oh man, who thought this would happen years ago? Who thought this would happen after the NES Classic situation and the amiibo situation and the Switch situation? Who ever thought that Nintendo would finally get it 100% right? Now for those wondering, no, I do not have an SNES Classic Edition. It's just kind of one of those things. I didn't have the money to get it, but it sounds like as long as I have the funds to get one, sometime this holiday I'm going to be able to pick one up. And I definitely want it because I want a legit copy of Star Fox 2. Plus right now I have no legal way to play my, what used to be my favorite game of all time, currently my second favorite game of all time, Secret of Mana. That's on the SNES Classic Edition. I can't wait to play that. Maybe do some live streams of it with you guys. I'm just so excited. I can't wait. Thank you so much Nintendo. You did something extremely, extremely right. I have zero things to criticize with you about right now. About your handling of the SNES Classic Edition. Day one and moving forward for right now. I am so thrilled that Nintendo has recognized demand and are supplying demand and literally is making comments and remarks and proving it with their stock that they are trying to combat scalpers to make sure people don't need to pay premiums to get their products. Finally. Anyways folks, like this video if you like it. Dislike it if you do dislike it. Dislike it. I am Nathaniel Rumpeljant from Nintendo Prime. As always folks, if you want more videos like this, subscribe if you would like to show some support for us. We are almost to our goal, our $100 stretch goal on Patreon. We are $3 at the time of recording. $3 short of our $100 goal. That's one more $5 subscription to get our podcast early. And then our podcast will become a weekly podcast. And what's great about when it becomes a weekly podcast is there's going to be more special guests. Right now the podcast is kind of a fly by the seat of our pants every other week. 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