 sometimes I hate being right and while I wasn't going to make a video about this today I realized by the time if I wait till tomorrow to do this I'm behind the ball and I'm doing the viewers of this channel a disservice Walmart is canceling all of the Super Nintendo Classic Edition pre-orders all of them not a single one's gonna be kept so if you have one and you haven't received the email from one with the cancellation yet don't worry sometimes this week you're going to get the email in fact here is what it says here's the email you will receive it says thank you for your interest in the Super Nintendo Entertainment System Classic Edition as you are aware this is a highly sought-after console that will launch later this fall unfortunately due to a technical glitch the Super Nintendo Classic Edition was mistakenly made available last Friday evening ahead of the official release date we regrettably will have to cancel this item on your order we know that this is incredibly disappointing to you and we're truly sorry for this mistake in regards to the cancellation of this item if you pay my credit card your card has not been charged any authorization holds placed on your account will automatically expire in accordance with the card issuers policy if you paid through PayPal or with a gift card your payment will be refunded when the order is canceled the official launch date for this item is 929 please check the product page on walmer.com prior to the date for any updates I do hope that you'll give us another chance to earn back your business and these are being sent out in mass we I've seen reports coming from hundreds of different people at this point about the cancellation so this is definitely not like a one-off or this isn't like the initial cancellations that went out before where you thought all people you know they didn't have the right financial information or they were ordering more than one of them and you're only allowed to or for whatever people were doing there were some explainable reasons why some people's pre-orders didn't get canceled before what other people's did and Walmart this whole time was likely behind the scenes trying to figure out what they could do with the pre-orders that went through right the ones that seemed legit and they were maybe thinking well maybe we jumped the gun with the pre-orders there was a technical glitch but maybe we can still honor these pre-orders and Walmart right now probably doesn't even know how many copies of the SNES classic edition they're even going to have let alone you know if there is a date for pre-orders to go out in the first place because normally what a company does like Nintendo is they make all of the retail outlets that are going to sell an item kind of you know hold themselves to a specific street date for when they're going to have these games be available for pre-order this just like they hold all these retailers accountable for a street date for when they can actually sell the unit to people in the stores so you know retailers this is why you usually don't see retailers jumping the gun with pre-orders unless you know then you know Nintendo or the company in question has given them permission to do so in the first place you know sometimes GameStop will hold down pre-orders for a game two years ahead of time but that's because the company allows GameStop to do that and any retailer would be able to do that but when it comes to hardware generally there is a date that everyone can make it available for pre-order and that date obviously has not arrived or it might not be arriving at all maybe the SNES classic edition won't even have pre-orders in the first place we don't know but what is clear here is that as Walmart admitted this was a technical glitch this wasn't supposed to happen last Friday the system was not supposed to be available for order and the fact that they didn't cancel all of the units right away and only canceled the ones that had issues with credit cards or you know ordered too many of them it was one of those things where I think Walmart behind the scenes was like man we screwed up we don't want to cancel all these orders and upset a bunch of people maybe there's a way that we can fulfill them but you know after probably checking guidelines and maybe even getting on the phone with Nintendo to try to see how you know they can get at least give an estimate on how many units they're gonna have for pre-order they realized no we this sucks but we have to do it you know as the last line in the email it will tell you I do hope you'll give us another chance to earn back your business this tells me that Walmart knows that this was a massive mistake and they I mean they admit in the email that we know this is going to upset you the Walmart knows that they screwed up this was a massive screw up that's going to upset hundreds if not thousands of people because who knows how long you know for all we know when this pre-order went up there wasn't any limits on it you know they might have allowed 500,000 people pre-ordered the thing for all we know until Walmart caught on what was happening and then shut it down so we don't know you know if there was an internal system limit if the thing just got pre-ordered in that crazy and then eventually so our Walmart noticed a spike in these pre-orders on this on this item and they're like what's going on oh this item that needs to be available someone hit a wrong button somewhere you know they might call it technical glitch it could it could have literally been a glitch it could have been somebody inside hit a wrong button whatever the case may be this is obviously upsetting and I hate you know there's a lot of people not a lot of people I guess you know we only had a couple thousand views of the initial report on this but there was enough people in that video kind of putting me down about jumping the gun because you know I kind of stated that I thought this might happen and here we are today and it happened Walmart's canceling all of them and I'm I don't want to be right on this this sucks this really really sucks and I know it's all Walmart's fault there's no one else to blame but Walmart but I'm sorry anyone who thought they finally for this time you know if they could get the NES classic the SNES classic they felt secure in their order especially since you know it wasn't part of the initial cancellation wave but yeah it looks like it's happening folks it's getting cancelled everyone's gonna lose it and we'll just have to stay tuned for any future pre-order information and you know what sucks is that if there is a street day for pre-orders what I heard Nintendo to announce that you could pre-order the system on this day so we know to be ready just a thought I mean but anyways that's all I got to say folks I'm sorry for those of you this effects doesn't affect me but it could have because I had I did think about pre-order it during that time I'm obviously in hindsight glad I didn't but oh it continues to be a really frustrating experience with these classic addition systems doesn't it folks anyways I am Nathaniel Rufflejans from Nintendo Prime if you like this video you know what to do if you dislike the video hit that dislike button otherwise folks I will catch you in the next one