ThinkGeek Confirms That It'll Have Launch Day SNES Classic Stock in the US

Good luck getting one though.

Already first in line at my local GameStop. I’ll be darned if I go through what I did last year to get an NES mini. Seven tries at Target at 3am. That’s not gonna happen this time. Just over 14 hours to go...

@Drummertist I’m second in line at a Walmart for midnight release. They told me they had at least 20 for sale. And I feel your pain... I waited in line at Best Buy at 3am in 15 degree (Fahrenheit) weather for the NES Edition!

There's a Best Buy right near my job in Manhattan... What are the chances I can stop in tomorrow morning before work (well, will have to go back out when they open) and get one? Didnt Gamestop also so they're all getting like 50 consoles in each store? The real demand for that many can't be there, but the scalper demand i am sure CAN be. I hope everyone who wants one gets one... I'm on the fence since there's not enough good games on there that I don't already have, but it's SO damn adorable... And my SNES is the color of I Cant Believe it's Not Butter these days! (though it still works).

@iammikegaines @Drummertist

Whoa. Good luck to you both.

I may or may not just go to my local gamestop first thing tomorrow morning. Still not entirely convinced I want it that bad.

@Drummertist Just think, if it wasn't for ahole scalpers, you wouldn't have to deal with this. I remember walking into a Toy's R Us on the release day for the Sega Genesis, walking up and buying one with three extra games. No lines, no tickets and no ahole scalpers.

I want a SNES Mini, but I’m not even going to try.

I'm in the same boat, justine233!

it's probably best for my bank account anyway.. I couldn't get into the original Star Fox and after reading the review for Star Fox 2 this is also a hard sell for me. If I didnt have the retron 5 (or if it didn't exist) i might be totally tempted just as a cheap way to play games in HD. Tho lately I feel the retron 5 is a piece of junk. I treat my games and systems like my babies and i don't even play it that often, but the think is janky as hell! I only bought it less than a year ago too. and play MAYBE 1-2 hours a week on it. I'm sure the quality of the Nintendo minis is much better.

As a European, I would like a US SNES for its curiosity. Now if only shops would allow for overseas shipping, just like people on the other side of the pond made it happen for you

Only for the site to crash and once up, have all units gone.

edited because apparently I can't read. Best of luck to those that try to get them from the retailer!

im OLD and going to sleep now for work tomorrow and watching the news and they just showed an ad telling us to stayed tuned for Nintendo's Next Gaming system being released in midtown (assuming the nintendo world store). ha. looks like a ZOO already!

waiting for this clip to come on, cuz scalpers are SO obvious. Why can't they just have bouncers that that only let people in who they think are real fans!? i know, i know....

IM SO MAD RIGHT NOW. the line is stretching for blocks around the nintendo world store. i bought MK8 there when it was released and had the time of my life waiting in line. (the only thing i EVER waited in line for) who knew that game would be available everywhere though, but they released the deluxe edition with the big blue shell that i made into a giant necklace that I will always cherish.

Good luck to you all, I truely hope all fans who want one get one.

i was 37th in line at walmart and they had 38. whew!

I just got back from Walmart. I somehow got the last one! Unfortunately, we counted and thought the guy behind me was also going to get one, but a lady in a scooter had one of her kids sneak into the line and he bought one, screwing up the count and the guy behind me. I felt really bad for him. At least he only waited 15 minutes in line.

Waited a little over an hour at Wal Mart for the midnight launch. They got 24 units in, and I was number 22. Came home and stared at the box and its contents before playing a few minutes of Yoshi's Island, Star Fox 1, Super Ghouls n Ghosts, and Donkey Kong Country. The games look and play great, and with the controllers, what is old felt new again! Love it.

At 12:01am PDT Amazon has 142 available all for 149 or more... such bs.

So much for a midnight launch at ThinkGeek. Thirteen minutes past and nothing going on. Woke up in the middle of the night for nothing.

Went live a few mins ago. I secured one.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/kmrn/

GO NOW!!!

GOT ONE!!! Almost Anime Crying right now...

Report from one of my genuine pig says the system is now available at ThinkGeek's website but you gotta be quick to snatch one. We're not sure how many those monkeys have at their disposal.

Still live after 15 mins? Twitter said the site crashed. I managed to catch it within seconds of going live. Was not going to miss out on this one!

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/kmrn/

Went there and takes a few reloads but still shows available

It sucks though that had to get the link from their twitter post. Cant find it on the actual main site..

BIG FYI!! Only order 1 from there. Multiple orders will be canceled.

Update from my genuine pig, ThinkGeek is now out of stock. If you haven't got one yet, you best try it at retailers from this point on. Good night and good luck. I'm off to bed now.

weeps

Oh, refreshed and they had them, grabbed one, paid for it but now showing gone again. Maybe some cancelled double/triple orders?

My wonderful hubby waited in line at walmart and got one for me I tried think geek just incase he could not get one but they are sold out already go to the stores now people I hope all of you get one

Oh and yeah I've read that think geek is canceling orders from people trying to buy more than one if it's the same address or credit card they cancel I've read

Got one 4am(est) woke up, normal time, checked the site and was able to secure one. Good luck to everyone waiting in lines today

Not even gonna bother with SNES classic.

And there gone!

Waited on line at Target and Best Buy this morning and scored not one, not two but three SNES Classics. Target was allocated 78 units, and I believe Best Buy had 70.

Really??? Then why is there not a single one available in our entire state??? I have called every single store within reasonable driving distance for us (Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart, Gamestop, etc.) and NONE of them have any in stock. Best Buy confirmed that the entire state is completely sold out. I am getting REALLY sick of Nintendo's crap. We tried to get the NES classic when it came out last year, but we were never able to because they sold out so quickly. Sorry, but I have a full-time job and I don't have the time (or even desire) to stand in line outside of a store at 7 am to get one. Some of us work for a living and I absolutely refuse to pay the outrageous prices that people are selling them for online. It royally pisses me off that people go out and buy these things, taking them out of the hands of people who genuinely want to buy them for themselves or their kids, etc., only to turn around and resell them for 2 to 3 times as much as the retail price. I am SO done with Nintendo. They KNOW how highly demanded these consoles are, yet they NEVER make even remotely enough of them and then discontinue them 6-12 months later, not giving people a chance to get their hands on one. This is getting absolutely ridiculous and is beyond infuriating. My husband and I so badly wanted one of these SNES classic consoles. I have so many fond memories of this console from my childhood, but thanks to the greed of Nintendo and the people buying these things for the sole purpose of selling them for 2 to 3 times what they are worth, we will likely never get one. It's completely unfair and downright wrong.

@Burning_Spear Why do you need 3??? Why couldn't you have just bought one and left the others for other people who otherwise may not be able to get one once they sell out??? This is exactly what pisses me off so much.

So, this was my first experience and my last with Thinkgeek. I placed an order at 2AM PST last night, paid for it via PayPal and got an email this morning stating that they cancelled my order - they oversold. I bought this one for my kids (I got one just for Daddy at Walmart earlier that night) so it's not a big deal. But I feel so sorry for those folks who bought one early AM and passed on lining up at TRU, Best Buy, etc. in the morning thinking that they had secured one. And their cocky messages only make the matter worse. I guarantee if I ever get my hands on one of their warehouse monkeys, I'll choke it out!

Hey, thanks for the link. It was fun to zip straight over to see how this particular retailer declares their stock is sold out.

Day one, within the first hour stores were open, all gone EVERYWHERE. I knew I shouldn't have let any of these recent reports that some stores would actually have units for walk in sales on launch day fool me. No. No they did not.

I hope this expected botching doesn't give Nintendo a black eye just as they're building a new success with Switch. Not the best time to put that bad taste back in people's mouths. But I don't really blame
Nintendo for anything other than not quite having the resources to keep up with the appetite of their true fans combined with the opportunistic scumbags screwing up the process for us. Thanks, Amazon, for playing into this garbage by letting the price soar to $220 on your site. You're a real retail-cancer spreader to give thieves a platform to steal with. Thanks for the good deals you've gotten me but screw you hard for allowing this.

And I'm especially pissed at the people who continue to make this crap possible by EVER paying any of these rats that profit margin they ask for. Thanks, idiots, you validated these leeches so now they know it works, we'll never be rid of them. These people are just as guilty of sticking us with this second-middle man markup bull as the preying scalpers.

$79.99, people. Either pay that, or tell them to shove it.

I would really prefer the strictest one-per-customer policy possible to be applied across the board. I understand the desire to get one for whatever someone else you may have, but you know what? Give' everyone 4 twenties and point them to a store. If everyone bought their own a one-per policy wouldn't be a big problem, and resellers couldn't "stock up". I don't know, something needs to be done so we can stop making the acquiring of a fun game into a blood pressure raising struggle.

Anyway, that's me venting my frustration at another impossible launch mess. The guy at GameStop is giving the strongest possible assurances that more are coming, and he'll be calling those of us that gave a name and number. I hope that's true because I'm plenty steamed at GameStop for the terrible, terrible (did I mention terrible?) way they handled it:

July - "we won't be taking any pre-orders, you'll have to just come in on launch day and try your luck"

August - idiotic, meaningless "register interest" page. And no means by which to pre-order, reserve, or anything close.

Sept 29 - "did you pre-order?" Wait, what?!?!?! When was THAT ever an option? Bait and switch much? Flat out lie to your customers ever? Yes, that's what I was asked today. Who were the people that got these pre-orders from a place that wasn't taking pre-orders? Did I go all Rip Van Winkle for a minute somewhere? You shouldn't have to be a twitchy, eagle eyed crouching tiger waiting to pounce just to get a damn game machine, know what I'm sayin'?

Nice job, guys. Way to act like a business that needs satisfied customers support.

More than a few of these floating around on Twitter asking for $200+.