If I receive all my pre-orders I have decided to sell them at the RRP (+postage) after the scalpers have listed all theirs for huge amounts. If I can undermine just two scalper sales by selling at RRP then that will give me a little satisfaction for a couple of minutes.

Most likely it will be a scalper who you sell them to, so it's a flawed plan

Got the email and placed it.

Yay cant wait, I may be early 40's and balding but this is going to be epic!!!!!!!!!!!! :smile:

Retailers taking the **** with that £10 or more markup. No excuse when the RRP is £69.99

And some TopCashback too! Just ordered one! :smile:

Just ordered

Ordered 20!!!!

Not really, just the 1 for me :smile:

Ordered. Just got that email too!

Retailers taking the **** with that £10 or more markup. No excuse when the RRP is £69.99

Payment on dispatch or payment on order?

when do they take payment?

panic and run panic and run......HOT

Hot price, must be RRP - ordered, thanks for the heads up!

Be very interesting to see how many nintendo have, and how long their pre orders last...

Ordered thanks :smile:

Thank you! I think I managed to order one (didn't even bother with TCB, in case it went OOS!).

when do they take payment

Nice one, ordered a backup to game order. If both are fine closer to the time I can cancel the game one. They offered 2 year guarantee with switch so I wonder if they'll do the same this time?

I've ordered at a few stores now including Nintendo, not sure which to cancel after the NES I'm guessing none are a safe bet.

OP - You the MAN!

Or lady or course! :sunglasses:

spotted it on twitter! came here just to dish out nintendo flavoured high fives.

Got 1 finally. Thank you OP

Ordered after email from Nintendo

Nice ordered.

Get in. Got one. I'll keep my £79.99 Amazon pre-order for the time being though :man:

Ordered one; I think I'll cancel my Smyths one now.

ordered :smile:

I still don't know if I want one. I do and I do not. Hmmmmmm

Cheers OP, finally decided to bite and ordered one.

Ordered, thanks :smiley:

Thanks ordered here as cheaper than amazon. Will leave them both open as don't want to miss out on this

Bit off subject but popped in my local game and smyths earlier asking if taking pre orders smyths were with a £10 deposit but game were having a laugh and wanted £50.

Got one, many thanks!

Signed up for the email earlier today, got the email at 3:31 and just ordered. NICE

Ordered thanks op

Thanks. Ordered

The US seem to have got their uglier version compared with our sexier, streamlined snes. Maybe that's why there could be a shortage of our version with Americans buying ours instead. Will they be producing the exact same amount of each version?

ordered. didn't bother with the cashback as these will sell out very very fast. cheers

Got the email and ordered. Didn't even bother with Quidco in case oos. Had also ordered via Game and Smyths but will likely cancel those closer to the time. Ain't greedy so I'll be happy with one.

got one - had one pre-ordered at amazon too - will decide closer to the time whether i'll keep both orders and flip one on eBay later on or just cancel one of the orders - but will probably sell out pretty quick

Ordered one - yay!

ordered finally!!! got to pre-order it will go nice with my nes mini

in my experience Nintendo are by far the best bet only ever had one order cancelled with them and that was my fault for ordering two of a one per customer item.

Ordered a couple. One to keep, one to sell... worth a roll of the dice.

oh no didn't see the tcb. i expect i cant just click through now for the cookies and what not?

Would that make you buy it's uglier cousin though? :laughing:

Whoop!

looks OOS hope many people got 1

OOS

Thank you OP. Managed to pre-order one at a decent price :smile:

....and gone!

just got mine ordered finally.

think I may have got in with seconds to spare?!!

FUGLY

Still in stock for me?

Ordered after Nintendo emailed me. Got one finally after attempting for hours on Games website last night with no luck!!!

Was also minorly concerned about the whole 50hz 60hz thing but i think i spotted on some aussie site that whatever the model there all 60hz titles.

got mine cheers op

Got mine, thanks.

dang i expected as much, tbh i'm just happy to have one in the bag. thanks.

Managed to preorder one and when I told someone at work, they'd all gone. This is going to be a repeat of last year

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Out of stock.

Looks like I'll cancel my Smyths order - 6% Quico/TCB, £4.20 back :smiley:

FFS. What's the point in having email alerts from them if they're already gone. I wasted a lot of today on here.

Got one right at the death for ebay... thanks op!

Yeah nasty! some americans try to convince themselves it looks better by saying 'oh it looks less a toy and more mature' when the SNES essentially was a toy! I think the EU and Japanese version looks really sleek and knows what it is, the NTSC literally looks like a robots backside

However their games ran faster on their 60hz tv's and they didn't get deprived of Earthbound, Chrono Trigger Super Mario RPG etc etc. I would have quite happily looked at a robots backside to have played those as a kid!

Wow. That went quickly! Good luck to all those that ordered.

Horsesh*t it's because of that. You just limit it to one per customer.

I'd guess they're doing it because it's Game, and Game like the idea of having £50 deposits from everyone in their cashflow for a couple of months instead of just £10 from everyone. The books look healthier and they can make a little more interest on it.

£50 indeed! I wouldn't even trust them to exist by then.

I went to buy a Switch from them the other day on an impulse buy. By the time they'd finished trying to sell me an extended warranty, and their paid-for loyalty card, as well as not even taking Amex, I'd cooled off and walked out.

Didn't dare use tcb just in case, I really wanted 2 as well 1 for me and one for my son for a Christmas present but I'm happy with 1. I had to use this link as it's not even on Nintendo site and I didn't get an email from them even though I'm in there list and have been for years

For people who read their email even quicker than you may have done I'm afraid - apologies, but there's nothing you can really do about that.

Got the email and placed it.

Yay cant wait, I may be early 40's and balding but this is going to be epic!!!!!!!!!!!! :smile:

wow that did not last long!!

It's ridiculous that Nintendo's own store can sell out of these so quickly, like how many have they allocated to themselves, a few hundred or something!

Wow that finished quickly

got the "Thank You For You Order" email and order status shows as processing. I have never ordered from nintendo before has the order gone through?

Actually it's only 2% on hardware/pre-orders if you read the T&Cs, so more like £1.40.

Okay, here's a weird one.

As soon as I saw this thread I went straight to the Nintendo site, added the SNES Mini to my basket, then couldn't remember by password to log in. Had to do a password reset, got back in, did a search for the SNES Mini, only to find that it had sold out - hence my comment above.

I was about to logout when I realised that the SNES Mini was in my basket... Placed the order, expected to to be met with "sold out", but it seems to have gone through...

Bah! Didn't see that. Still, better than nowt :smiley:

Hi, Sorry rich didn't realise it was you from the very decent fire emblem offer last year. I'd already bought but thanks for posting. Hopefully only a few fell into the hands of the scalpers.

available on Nintendo Store UK now. Just nabbed one from the pre-order email link.

Hmmmm lets me order 2 (I've cancelled one, I was just curious if it would let me)

There's a "Your orders" section in Your Account on the website. If your order has gone through, it'll be listed there.

My TopCashBack tracked at £1.41

On that page is says processing

jammy.

Pretty sure will be back in stock later

Have the email of the order but cant log back in, presumably swamped. But thank god I have confirmation.

Maybe basket reserves it for a few minutes, a few other places do that like with tickets for gigs

While it may be Nintendo branded, it's just the Hut group running under license from them

I have ordered with Nintendo, Game, Smyths and Amazon. I don't want to be pissing about chasing one this year. Any spairs can go to mates or CEX. CEX were giving £150 cash for the NES mini at one point.

Paid through paypal so i have the 'submitted an order' email. Logged back in to my account and its processing so i'm sure your ok also.

Possibly, I got an order number and all that, don't have a confirmation email yet, but I suspect it might be because they are swamped - the website has crawled to a halt for me and I can't even log into my account...

How has Nintendo got this so wrong again...? :disappointed:

I just managed to order a 2nd copy (as a back up in case it got cancelled at Nintendo or give it my brother) from amazon for £69.99, so anyone with a pre-order from them it should go down in price

Mine was the same through PayPal and showing processing but I have a confirmation email from Nintendo actually sent to my junk folder (how dare they junk emails from Nintendo)

Got one!! But went OOS as soon as I completed the order.
My order is "processing" with the status: Awaiting Stock

Can anyone else confirm if this means I actually have one on pre-order?

Check junk emails

MAAAAAAAAAAAN, what is wrong with me? I keep forgetting that I have junk mail. There it was, sat at the top. Thanks man.

*Note to self: Check junk mail first.

Don't cancel

Why not?

Amazon got them in stock at £69.99!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B073BVHY3F

Don't think they counted on scalpers ordering 10. So instead of 100 units being enough allocation for a store (hypothetical example), they'd have needed 300. And even then it might just mean more scalpers come up.

Unless Nintendo overproduce this (highly unlikely), any artificial scarcity would be due to scalpers

Perfectly normal. My order confirmation came 5 mins after this deal was posted.

Mine says exactly the same as yours. Paid with debit card.

Just says unavailable on the next page.

In case the stock situation suddenly changes. Like the Switch and the NES classic, people have had preorders cancelled. At least wait a bit longer like a couple of weeks. You can't be 100% certain that everyone that completed the order will get one. Not with the level of demand this one has.

It will ship on launch.

This has more desirability since it includes two controllers, better games and an unreleased game = £££s for Nintendo, :disappointed: for average punters

Amazon have re-listed at £69.99

Had plenty of orders cancelled by them. Not least the last wave of Zelda amiibo. They're awful.

First post! welcome to hukd. Have they though? this things just one day old, too early to bring out the knives surely?

ha, just checked and i had a junked one too.

Yeah its early days otterboxer, alot of time for until the release date and a potential re-stock before Christmas

Agreed - just frustrated I keep missing out. I shall persevere...

If I didn't not have a preorder by the end of the week.... I won't be happy! :laughing:

is this limited to just the 21 games listed or can you buy more online?

having said that my favourites are on the list except, unless I missed it, super bomberman. although you need it 4 player really.

No, you cannot download games (no internet connectivity), nor does it have a cartridge slot.

And no bomberman! (probably couldn't get license from Hudson Soft) - Ninty don't like sharing profits!

Thanks op, got 2 for me and my bro, had to make a separate account though.

i also signed up to the email but it landed in the junk, so again thanks for the heads up.

im happy with the line up of games...could have had turtles in time maybe.

Weird paid using my Mastercard but on the order details it says Visa. There was no option to select the card type.

At a guess, it will probably be another linux box like the NES one was last year. The NES one last year was subsequentially opened up and people were able to significantly increase the number of game ROMS on the system.
You will need to source the ROMs separately, they wont be available from nintendo online store

That would be really, really nice.

Although it wouldn't surprise me if they've made that harder this time around. I hope not of course.

Well I somehow managed to have Topcashback track twice, despite only ordering once, and only opening TCB up after placing my order! £1.41 incidentally.

GAME won't adjust they £10 more on games too tbf

If you gonna do that though better off going android, cheaper and a lot less fuss.. Oh and available all the time!

My confirmation went to junk too. That was an uncomfortable few minutes until I remembered to check there too!

Darn it. Just got back from work and missed out ;(

nothing wrong with linux :smirk: but yes hopefully something similar will happen although maybe ninty have fixed the loophole?

i'm sure you'll get one. Argos will probably get involved soon i would think.

and tesco direct I reckon

Same here :disappointed: the joys of being unemployed :laughing:

Can't believe super tennis has been omitted from the games lineup! Gutted

Smyths are showing back in stock

Just preordered in Hanley Game. Still some available so you should get one if you can get there early tomorrow. One per customer and £50 deposit

hopefully some clever peeps manage to hack it then.

I would go pi but it would be nice to have quality official pads.

doesn't help that they have some random string as their support email.

Managed to get one pre ordered - luckily saw the notification email straight away. My fiancé also managed to get one ordered on his account as well.

Just to be safe, I have also managed to order one with Smyths for in store collection - although it's £10 more - wonder if they will price match Nintendo - assuming £69.99 is the actual RRP

Unfortunately no Joe and Mac or Super Mario All Stars :disappointed:

dude, how many do you need?

After the hassle I had getting hold of a Mini NES, I am taking no chances!

No way to set up a stock alert?

Do Nintendo take the money for this now?

all over aBay already....
https://twitter.com/MrPhlyte/status/879750172183494657

I get it now. After having a quick look at used ones on ebay! what happened?! i knew they might increase a little in value but jesus. I'm glad i got in on this when i did but now i'm genuinely afraid at having only one of these pre-ordered! You chose wisely.

no at dispatch.

Some shameful types listing these on ebay right now. angry fist emoji! We all buying ours to play on right? right?!

I am surprised anyone is actually buying the "pre orders" on eBay, after what happened with the NES, there is no guarantee that pre orders mean you will actually get one! Even Nintendo themselves cancelled pre orders for the NES last year.

Nice one. Got it within a minute. Always wanted a snes never played one. Had a nes and mega drive. Mario world and street fighter.

Grabbed one. Many thanks OP!

If I receive all my pre-orders I have decided to sell them at the RRP (+postage) after the scalpers have listed all theirs for huge amounts. If I can undermine just two scalper sales by selling at RRP then that will give me a little satisfaction for a couple of minutes.

goddamn mays britain.

JC is that you?

Most likely it will be a scalper who you sell them to, so it's a flawed plan

No way to set up a stock alert?

I think he would need about 1,000 units to make any sort of difference to the price level. Selling at under the RRP would then lead to scalpers panicking.

Will be on here before long: http://m.stockinformer.co.uk

Seems like very.co.uk pushed out a lot of units before they became permanently unavailable.
Keep your eyes out on VERY!

good point. And for those still looking don't forget tesco direct, argos, and (spit) gameseek should have some stock eventually.

Cheers for that, I just ordered one of Very having missed out by minutes on every other pre-order. Also dawdled this morning with shopTo and between having one in my basket and checkout they had sold out!

Very is £79.99 though , I wonder if they do a pre-order price Guarantee?

link for those interested:

http://www.very.co.uk/nintendo-classic-mini-super-nintendo-entertainment-system/1600192025.prd?_requestid=49015&Ntt=super%20nintendo%20mini

There's probably a Very 20% discount code available isn't there ?

Ah, don't tell me that now! :smile: There is 4% on Quidco, which barely covers delivery but every little helps and all that I suppose

OK.. I cannot find an answer to this anywhere, would be grateful if anyone can shed any light this..

Regarding "Secret of Mana": originally, this was a three-player collaborative game - will it only be a two player collaborative game on the Mini SNES?

Sadly, I suspect that it will only be two-player...

Sadly you are right, I alone would never be able to get enough units to move the market for these items against scalpers. As has been commented elsewhere the only people who can do that is Nintendo as they ultimately control the primary supply. On a public marketplace like eBay the best my strategy could hope for would be to delay the inevitable sale by a day (or few hours). At a more local level where the market is friends and friends of friends it could work. Two of my colleagues now have a much better chance of owning and playing a SNES Mini without having to entertain dancing with a scalper.

I've been reliably told that those who really want a SNES Mini before Christmas will get one. Nintendo got the demand woefully wrong with the NES Mini and had to move onto Switch manufacturing upon realising it. After the higher than expected demand for Switch, producing more NES Minis became redundant.

But they know now the demand and I'm told they the pre-order allocation that retailers have already had is double the entire run of NES Minis. There will be stock. It won't be bountiful, but enough to go around.

Someone holla when these come back into stock.

Question, does anyone know if there be a way to buy roms for this via the Nintendo store or 3rd party?