SNES Classic Revealed

[Nacho3]

Just realized this topic is called SNES Mini but that's not actually what it's called. Even though I knew what it was about it's the Classic. Wasn't the revision of the SNES that came out late in it's life called the Mini?

[Arseen]

Pilkun viilaaja!!!

[wiggy]

The top story if you googled walmart was that Walmart had a glitch in their database which made the pre-orders allowed pre-maturely.  Walmart was not suppose to take pre-orders 7/21 so they cancelled EVERY order. 

If you googled walmart last week, the top story that was plastered everywhere was the "Check your Walmart SNES Mini Pre-order! They are being cancelled!"

Convenient Cropping is Convenient, I cropped the google search.  RIGHT underneath it was the news stories.  I was more surprised at that time by the 2 day shipping lol.

Yeah, but aren't those both the same thing? I was looking for something not SNES related to be Wiggy's "1st straw" to his SNES "last straw".

There were many straws before this. In nutshell, Walmart is an awful company and I've NEVER had good dealings with it.

[Hesch]

Just realized this topic is called SNES Mini but that's not actually what it's called. Even though I knew what it was about it's the Classic. Wasn't the revision of the SNES that came out late in it's life called the Mini?

Whoops. Fixt

[marioxb]

Not really. In Japan, the last model released was called Super Famicom Jr., and the last model Famicom was the AV Famicom. In the US (and Europe?), they didn't give them special names. Just NES and SNES, as usual. Fans came up with their own nicknames, like top-loader and mini SNES, but they were never official names.

Now for these "Classic" systems, the offical names are, in Japan:

Nintendo Classic Mini: Family Computer
Nintendo Classic Mini: Super Famicom

in Europe:

Nintendo Classic Mini: Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System

and in the US:

Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition
Super Nintendo Entertainment System: SNES Classic Edition

So in Japan and Europe, they have the word "Mini" in the title, but not in the US.

Also interesting that for NES, the US and Europe systems and games look the same, but Japan is different. But for SNES, Japan and Europe look the same (but have different names), while the US has the "exclusive" look for systems, controllers and cartridges.

[breakmanexe]

Attention fellow Yanks:

As you may or may not have heard, Best Buy and Amazon launched their pre-orders last night. Best Buy's pre-orders sold out within 20 minutes and Amazon's were gone within an hour of going up (apparently the pre-order page was different than the placeholder page that people have been camping for the last month).

This means it is highly likely that GameStop, Target and other such retailers will likely have pre-orders going up sometime soon as well, but God only knows when. So keep an eye out and good luck.

[Arseen]

If someone manages to get extra copy of US version, I'd like to buy one.

[breakmanexe]

Walmart, Target and GameStop online preorders went up about 45 minutes ago. Almost all were sold out within seconds. Not even a joke. No point in preordering anything Nintendo anymore if the only people that can get them are resellers running bots.

[gypsyking13]

Got in immediately (first fifteen seconds or so) and I had one in my cart on Target's website, but couldn't get checked out fast enough to place the order. Those bots make it rough to order...

[TDIRunner]

I managed to snag one from GameStop in person (not online) just a few minutes ago.  They were pretty strict about the one per household rule, which I had no problem with.  If I can get my hands on a second one for trade purposes, I will, but at this point I'm not putting much effort into finding another one. 

[TheVoyger1234]

And all this "low stock" and "sold out in mere minutes" is already giving me suspicions.
Not that history's gonna repeat itself, it never repeats itself.

[monjici]

Just learned to worst new of all... SNES classic sales are BANNED in my region! 

http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/the-snes-classic-cant-be-sold-in-quebec.455016252/

[TDIRunner]

Just learned to worst new of all... SNES classic sales are BANNED in my region! 

http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/the-snes-classic-cant-be-sold-in-quebec.455016252/

That's a crazy ass rule. 

[Blueprint]

The tracker app  notify me of the Best Buy launch, I got 2 from them and so did most my local friends... and I also got one from amazon . One is for a friend that ask me to order one. And I'm keeping one. The third one is probably going to be use for trade. We will see.. when I get them deliver

[Hesch]

Tracker app? I missed the 2 overnight preorders, and Target and Gamestop both fucked me this afternoon