SNES Classic Edition Launch Thoughts -

The SNES Classic launch has come and gone - was it a success?
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[@edmundblackadder2741]

Pat the NES Punk only real gripe I have is why they made the controller wire 1 metre in today's era of televisions where your playing on a giant HD flat screen compared to the original having a 2 metre wire when we were playing on tiny TVs

[@8ByteBrian]

I have to say isn't it ironic with Nintendo's stance on ROMS yet they have two open-source consoles that people are obviously piling TONS of roms on both these systems, & the irony of Golf being on the Switch with an emulator...I think it's time for Nintendo of America/Japan to finally get off their hypocritical soapbox.

[@L0L247]

Pat the NES Punk I was able to get it day one. I missed out on the NES Classic, I made sure I wasn't going to miss out on the SNES.

[@QueenAurora85]

Pat the NES Punk love it got mine at midnight at Walmart

[@nophoria]

Pat the NES Punk I highly enjoyed this segment as a newcomer to your channel, I feel the same way about adding roms on SNES vs NES, but hey this thing can be your NES classic as well lol. Just need one of the NES controllers to plug into it. Too bad they're 5x the cost now.

[@Krushak8888]

The Walmart i work at, we only allowed people to buy 2 at the most at my suggestion.

[@Krushak8888]

Musethomas well i told my managers that if you want to piss people off and have a riot cause i work third shift we had a fuck ton od people and sold out in two hours

[@PsychoIncarnate666]

Everywhere around where I live only allowed 1 per customer at most

[@Krushak8888]

Readsy Meen depending where you are, if it involves walmart every walmart is different it isnt game stop where they have a set rules... ever notice every walmart may have the same layout but different products... and why the hell would you buy five of them...

[@Krushak8888]

Readsy Meen plus the fact that if they limit you, they record the name down, which we did *shrugs* yes money is money but... its the principals of it

[@jimathysanderz9639]

yes, go ahead and write down my name "john smith". just got 3 more at the local wally this morning. (last 3 or they would've let me buy more). no name needed, 10$ an hour employees dgaf (at least the rational ones don't).

[@ardvarkboy]

PatMath is back.

[@okchief420]

Pat the Amazon Treasure truck is a system where you buy the product through the Amazon app and you track down the treasure truck via app and pick up your item! Houston, San Antonio, Austin and Dallas has them!

[@rwdplz1]

Buy from scalpers when the prices go below $80

[@FlintG]

I sure will whenever I see one for that low. For now I will continue to use my raspberry pi.

[@TBustah]

Yeah, but there's got to be a limit. Some stores probably have deadlines, and I know that others will only give you store credit, especially if you paid with a credit card.

[@ryanzlatniski1799]

I finally got one!!! They just happened to be restocking them at my target when I was running errands. Right place at the right time :)

[@volvoguy804]

Ryan Zlatniski Same. Checked a walmart every sat, since it came out. Two weeks before xmas, saw 4 in a case. Even after obtaining a seller to open the case, had two people at the case waiting to purchase one.

[@starsiegeplayer]

Will we get an NES punk review of Starfox 2?

[@retropatronum]

My local walmarts and target didn't have any, but 4 days later a walmart near my school had 35 and I was able to go after class around noon and got one!

[@MotoMechzorz]

Gamestop probably got tons, and just set them aside for forced think geek bundles later on.

[@gregg.192]

I just got one today after work, around 3:45pm, at my local Target. They had at least 20 that I saw.

[@ericdawson1088]

i found a scalper in roanoke va and i live about two hours from there and got them to drive it to me on the promse of giving them 160 plus 50 for gas , then once they got here and texted me , i then texted back a pic of me with mine from gamestop and a not so nice message,lmao

[@rudys.4380]

I happened to be off from work that day & even though I knew people that camped out overnight, I walked up 5 minutes before my local retailer opened and got a ticket for the second to last one they had on hand. The only reason I had to wait half an hour to check out was that there were 64 people ahead of me getting theirs.

[@AlpakaWhacker]

10:15 The ebay and paypal fees aren't a percentage of the profit, it's off of the total sale price so if someone sells the SNES for $140 then the fees they pay are $21 (not $6). If you offer "free" shipping then that'll like you said, cost you $10 so in actual fact... you'd be making even less if you tried to re-sell it at $140. You'd only make approx. $12 per unit.

[@AlpakaWhacker]

I was basing the $21 on the percentages that Pat said, 10% ebay and 5% paypal. Based on your percentages of 10% and 3.5% then the fees would be nearly $19 (not the $21 that I originally said) and if postage is included, that's another $10 based on what Pat said. So this gives you total fees+postage of $29, giving you a total profit of $21.

[@PatTheNESpunk]

Yeah i realized afterwards that I miscalculated - so scalpers make even less! :O

[@jimathysanderz9639]

"scalper" = every game store in the country. a lot of commies out there in video game nerd land eh?

[@SaviorGabriel]

I was able to walk right into my local Gamestop at 11AM on launch day during my break, and managed to easily pick one up.

[@CJBuzzy]

Bought one for my son for his birthday since he's always playing my SNES collection. I wanted to jump start his game collection since we got him a NES Classic for Christmas. Truth be told, I haven't been able to stop playing it myself. Especially since the hack

[@grahamrobertson9013]

The store I work for they already re stocked them! Got another 10 of them in, we had 14 on launch day

[@sonicplys64]

I got off work early that day. Came over to the local Best Buy about ten minutes before the store opened, long line already. Was lucky to get one. Nintendo did have enough supply this time around.

[@g1nobleteam]

Most of the listings here having been averaging around 140 to 200, though not many of them have been selling.

[@christiansells120]

People are talking about walking in and conveniently buying an snes on launch day, but I was in line at GameStop before opeing, and I still didn't get one. I was eleventh in line, and they only had 10. Ever since then they've been constantly sold out and I've missed my only chance. Should've went to Target and not ShitStop.

[@KaiserGX]

Yeah, Target has always been a good bet for me. Never go to Gamestop unless you have it preordered.

[@182punkbunny]

Christian Sells I was in line at GameStop was going to be #4 ... but the Mom of the first person in line came by telling us that they had a bunch on target ... I asked the people to save my spot since I brought donuts for all of us... I ran over to target and got 2 of them ...game back to tell the other 3 guys at GameStop to go since they still had about 35 of them and they took off as well and we all got ours before GameStop even opened

[@jimobrien84]

Never go to gamestop for any purpose

[@christiansells120]

Jim O'Brien - I usually don't. I really hate GameStop.

[@dylanstarr1672]

I worked stock team at my local toys r us during holiday season 2016 and we only had like 4 or 5 shipped to the store overall. Opening day of the snes classic I went to that store and was 28th in line and got one. They had almost 50 in stock opening day. That almost 10x the amount they had last year

[@eminsecundo2634]

we have the us version here in the philippines but its missing an adaptor/powerbrick a poster and some instruction and nintendo reward code.

[@lagoveride]

spoke to the manager at my local target in nj near the nyc area. He said his store as well as others in the area are getting a restock on them on oct 20th. same deal line up before open and they will hand out tickets. I expect them to get a decent sized shipment. Not sure if the date is for all targets or just the ones in my area. I got one on launch day, but i will try for a 2nd one to get as a gift for my brother. I hope it will be just as easy as last time with plenty to go around. I refuse to pay a scalper. Funny thing is ive noticed even the super famicom mini's have dropped a lot in price on ebay as the international scalpers try to undercut each other for fear of losing money or just breaking even. I think once the next 2 restocks happen worldwide a lot more will be floating around and the scalpers already sitting on product will feel the need to make sales before they lose big time and we should see the prices continue to drop on the resellers markets.

[@nopales3332]

My gamestop only got 29 of the snes classics, and 20 of them went to pre-orders so there was only 9 at launch and I just so happened to get the 9th one. I was so happy.

[@VOAN]

Got mine from ThinkGeek's online store the night before the Super NES Classic Edition launch, the offered only lasted for 20 minutes but I was able to snatch one before they ran out of stocks.

[@mattroman8334]

I waited in line at 3 am first one there later saw several people saying they were selling theirs on eBay to make money....worst part I sat there with them peacefully in the dark wanting to punch them

[@182punkbunny]

I heard that at the Walmart line too ... I was like “i don’t really need it since I own all the physical copies of all the games in it” then i pulled out my Supaboy with mega man x in it ... people were going crazy... I was like you can’t afford my collection

[@azurarutlan]

The store I work for (Meijer) in Alpena, MI (rural area) had 3 NES classics on launch and I think we saw a total of maybe 8 in the whole release. SNES classic, which I persuaded them to allow me to do a midnight release for, and we had 15. So yeah much better supply by Nintendo. We actually just got our second shipment today which was a full case of 5.

[@lady1kaka]

Now had been a great moment for an SNES guide book to know which games to put on your SNES mini as soon as it's hacked in the next few days.

[@scab181]

An interesting note I walked into a local gamestop and they had just gotten another shipment of SNES classics and said they were getting more on the way.

[@TravisSelassieSimbawafedha]

I saw four in the local Wal-Mart on Thursday.

[@RFSKannon]

While my local walmart only got 23 SNES Classics in on day one, that was almost four times the amount they received the entire run of the NES Classic.

[@Podcastforthewin]

45 minuets after it was released scalpers on Kijiji were selling it for 350$ on Canada.

[@Rando1975]

I've heard a great variety in #'s that stores got. The lowest I heard was about 13, which I believe was a Gamestop, and others up to 40, 60, to over 100 consoles in some places.

[@PrinzessinRamode]

I've still never seen one in a store and I live in Japan. I tried Osaka, Okayama, Kobe, or even countryside, I've never seen them anywhere. I really want to get one.

[@desther7975]

I got mine at a relatively small store in a relatively small town. No pre-order. Just walked in early that morning and bought one of the _four_ they had in stock.

[@desther7975]

Regarding adding ROMs, the only thing I am really tempted to do is load up the Super Famicom Mini ROM selection on there along with its original US ROM selection. That would make it sort of a 2-in-1.

[@zooks808]

I was like Ian on this one. I was not gonna go out of my way to get one unless I see/run into one. Internet said GS was going to get some on 10/10/17 so I decided to check it out on 10/11/17 and they had a lot in stock. Got one and my 8 year old son is happy with it.

[@purplefreak3]

It a plus working in retail cause I did not pre-order or wait in line or run around looking for stores that had any in stock and got one. The initial release only got 14 which sold out but today 5 came in and person in electronics was putting them out and I was like I'm going on break right now.

[@TantNJess]

My best buy had 84, the target across the way had 55, my local town Walmart only got 12 and my GameStop got 13 but 10 we're preorders

[@kennethlivengood]

I live in a small town in Illinois. My Walmart had 15, but my GameStop got almost 40. We don't have any mom'n'pop gamestores, so I like to support my local GameStop because the folks there are so cool. I was glad to see my GameStop get so much more than Walmart did. :-)

[@JetBen555]

when i was a kid, me and my friends we called it the super nin

[@skins4thewin]

But yeah, the SNES Classic is actually a fantastic system to hack, and is actually a really great value for that purpose. It's VERY similar to a Raspberry Pi hardware wise, and when hacked it basically functions like one. This one comes with your ports, your HDMI output, etc. You can use an adapter to hook a USB stick to it for added storage and can load up RetroArch cores on it to basically play whatever the heck you want, all the same shit that you'd play on a Raspberry Pi. Only this one is an Official Nintendo product with a really cool high quality case and controllers for only $80. Definitely worth it & DEFINITELY worth hacking! The ONLY thing I wish is that it allowed you to just automatically load up whatever ROMS you stick on to a USB stick without having to preconfigure everything first.

[@Henners]

Went well. My store got 100ish, one of our larger locations got literally 300. I feel if you made ANY effort to line up before the store opened - you got one.

[@Henners]

We got 36 NES Classic on launch just for comparison

[@Henners]

And then we got 20 SNES the day AFTER launch too

[@jimathysanderz9639]

And they all sold out to scalpers who put them on ebay. Keep dreamin, Nintendo dropped the ball yet again. But hey, as a reseller, I ain't complainin.

[@oliversantiago7052]

my local gamestop got 12 and 10 were preordered. Best Buy had like 100 but people were camping out

[@MrJBcardtricks]

I went into my gamestop today and was looking around and a lady walked up to the counter. She said "super nintendo" and I thought she was crazy for thinking our gamestop had em. Then the cashier asked if she wanted a warranty, so I turned around and saw they had 3 classics behind the counter, so I freaked out and ran over and grabbed one. It was a great day

[@TerminallyNerdy]

I added 8 titles, just ones that me and my wife felt were missing. And that was it.

[@solofalcon]

Terminally Nerdy which games?

[@patriciajacobs5953]

For anybody that hasn't gotten one yet, I hope you get one soon. As a very famous man on youtube once said, " Pull up your pampers"!

[@memyopinionsche6610]

are you going to do complete pod cast with you and Ian? on you tube.

[@violetbliss4399]

Funnily, the scalper price is lower than what Nintendo is selling them for in Sweden (rec. price ~$160)

[@nighteel]

We got 12 at my store sadly :( and no one who came in after we were opened got one.

[@ericdawson1088]

got one at gamestop yesterday oct 11, heck yeah

[@kujo3423]

Our Target, for the NES mini, some how got 40 on launch day.

[@craig9605]

On launch day, in my area if you showed up to Best Buy at open, you were pretty much going to get one. I had an opportunity to get a 2nd one but decided against it.

[@erectbovine]

At Target I was number 89. I don't know how many total they had, but there were many people in line behind me that were also able to get one. Theyre going to be back in stock next week, so Nintendo seems to be keeping their word.

[@KrAsHSSyKo]

The launch went really well. My only issue is trying to get imports withouy having to pay extra beside import fees

[@ther0n1nnamed47]

I walked in not expecting to get one... totally got one. And don't regret spending a penny on it.

[@trueblueryu5713]

The Best Buy closest to me had 102, I got the last one four hours after sales began. Truthfully that was a little too lucky on my part

[@I_NEED_MONEY_]

Pawn shop by me had a NES classic console only for 30 bucks the other day. I passed.

[@ihateexcessivelylongandpoi4490]

Here in Australia my local Target has lots of them in stock. Has hell frozen over?

[@105wonky8]

Paul H only in the US it seems

[@bulletpoint728]

I bought a Nintendo Switch for my girlfriend when it was launched back in March, now six months later I'm playing it. What goes around comes around :-)

[@garyhanson655]

What games would you bring to a Deserted island if you only had a small suit case? Also what games would you keep if were getting selling off your collection?

[@JetBen555]

Nintendo should open an online store where we can legally buy roms and emulator for all of their older console. Personally i'm not interested in physical copy/hardware. It's getting very expensive (and will only get worst) and this stuff is getting old (way too old), when you buy old cartridges (and console) you will have to clean the pins and contacts at some point/or replace battery and shit like that. I'm not interested in doing that... also, it can take a lot of place. Where as a digital copy can be used on any computer and you will never lose it, you will always be able to download it from the store after you buy it.

[@pictonomii3295]

It would be cool if they did something like the Genesis collection on Steam, which is basically a legal rom store.

[@pictonomii3295]

0:03 That made my day.

[@mjstory1976]

I would love to have one

[@Dpelv1n]

Our local Toys R Us got 50 of them, where most of the other shops got around 25. Thought it was nice/sympathetic of Nintendo, but was probably just a coincidence.

[@MichaelDBaker]

Pat: Do you have a SD2SNES? It's a far preferable option to emulation IMHO since you can play on original hardware. There are a handful of games that are incomPATible (SA1 & Super FX chip games) but the vast majority of the SNES library is playable.

[@chaos120m]

Wow none of the stores in oregon got that many

[@TheGjergj79]

Got mine from a friend that is a manager at Gamestop for retail.

[@skabcat242]

I have seen some of these at convetions and the highest price was $150.

[@doylescustoms2643]

for what its worth, if your using the 8bitdo snes controller, down and select work as the reset and take you to the home screen

[@AdriftForWeeks]

Still impossible to find in the Netherlands. I have yet to see one NES or SNES in any store even. It's like they don't freaking exist here.

[@TheCreepypro]

I knew I wasn't going to get it on launch so I'm waiting for the next batch but from what I've heard it went well for the most part if I knew stores were going to be this well stocked then I would have gone down to get one

[@skins4thewin]

Ian doesn't understand that Ebay has fees too. Scalpers were only making like $20 bucks per system.

[@tumadre5000]

My bestbuy had over 60. Also a small city

[@NLuKa420]

Thank you, it's not fucking SUHNESS! I love you Pat.

[@jordankelsey4501]

Got mine hacked with the much missed games. Love it

[@departedgardens9262]

i got it! love it! i also got the wireless controller i really recommend.

[@MrMeAndMyDogs]

In Swedish Facebooks groups I have seen the NES classic drop from 150-200€ down to 100€. As soon as the announced that they would start producing again prices dropped to 130€ and have been going down steady ever since, hahaha.l Not so fun now when you have several that doesnt sell untill you drop it to the original price :D

[@soulman902]

I managed to get two. One for myself and one for a friend who would be working that day. I plan on getting more and giving them to family members. Maybe one for my Sister and one for my Nephew

[@jpv108]

I don't know which eBay auction is better for the SNES Classic... the one for $50,000 where the guy will donate 60% to charity or the one for half a million dollars.

[@fartbrice4547]

aye, nice HEALTH shirt, ian. awesome lol

[@joseherrera8489]

I'm the same. All my grays are in my beard.

[@stevenrowe2005]

someone put up a video about the problems the nintendo ny store was having and how scalpers were creating issues that night. unbelievable how people like that continue to make things hectic

[@Gigidag77]

Maybe in the US you could get one. In Germany, i've never seen a single unit anywhere in stock.

[@mikekz4489]

And here I was thinking I could buy one during a normal shopping trip. Oh well.

[@saunders017]

I went during my lunch hour that day to check if my Target had one... In hindsight not a great plan. I should have expected them to sellout right when the store opened considering this is a Nintendo product.

[@CrimsonDragonX]

Gamestop is probably hoarding them to make SNES mini bundles on their other site.

[@pryt86]

TheDynamicOne yea my gamestop got like 8 in stock yesterday, Fucking 8.

[@ericdawson1088]

is doing the hack dangerous or hard

[@kaiosun]

your scalpers are asking less than big retail shops in europe :D 150-200 euros from a store. Sold out.

[@casper6986]

My Walmart had 175 SNES classics

[@clipperz4life]

Ian i saw you in a sling commercial

[@cliffjumper1984]

Must of been enough. The scalpers in my area are 1/4th of what they were with the be classic. Plus the prices they are asking is like 120 and 150. Seen a 300 dollar one. Nothing crazy like the nes classic

[@DJWhiteWolfX]

the Target here had 6.

[@RetroQGaming]

Pat and Ian with the shots at us Europeans on it being the SNES here, right in the feels!

[@RetroQGaming]

Ramjet164 And oregano!

[@mikekz4489]

Most kids just called it the Super Nintendo. I don't know how you English decided to SNES as a word when it clearly sounds awful when spoken.

[@natemo82]

To celebrate actually being able to get one of these I’m finally, after more than 20 years, gonna beat Final Fantasy III/VI.

[@defitemiscabitibiakagaymeb4210]

My Wal-mart had 80 XD

[@SlipKnoTfreak1456]

I've seen people in groups buy em off scalpers, now I feel like a fucking broken record telling everyone on posts asking for em to WAIT and to give the scalpers a middle finger

[@quiet451]

I still could not get one. And judging by the fact it still sells for $150 on the aftermarket, a lot of other people are in the same boat.

[@r9delta104]

At first I was semi-against hacking the SNES Classic because really what's the point, why not just get a Pi at that point...but unlike the Pi input latency is a lot less of a problem. This is probably the only emulator-in-a-box i've tried that doesn't play some of the more timing sensitive games or even just Super Mario World like pure shit. The physical quality of the controllers and casing itself is extremely nice and hacking it doesn't mess with the frontend besides adding folders and that's optional. There are people that are just using RetroArch on it though and to me that's asinine as you introduce a ton of input latency right back into it.

[@craiglebel7867]

My best buy had 79 at launch

[@craiglebel7867]

The original MRjguill just 2 one for my parents and one for me

[@jcdemp7513]

Ian reminds me of Paul Dano

[@discostu1uk]

It seems like all the cultured folk who originally got the sophisticated and beautiful Famicom design call it the SNES. Whereas the countries who received the grey breeze block have to shout out ESSS ENNN EEEE ESSS like the special kid from the back of the class.