It's really annoying that every retail store is doing these for £79.99 they should be £69.99 :disappointed:

I remember getting my SNES back in the day for about this much with Super Mario All-Stars + World...

Ordered mine from Nintendo for £69.99

Mine was dispatched from smyths Monday evening, hoping to receive today. Was charged £69.99

I guess scalpers aren't very happy :grin:

£9.96 above RRP and its getting heat....

It was Nintendo UK who gave it an RRP of £69.99 - £79.99. The RRP is only a guide, retailers can charge what they want.

My tesco order for this has been dispatched due Friday latest.

Still best price if didn't get preorder at smyths or Nintendo, they bothe wen really quick, had the smyths one in my basket :disappointed:

I wouldn't think john lewis were allocated that much stock so it probably wont make that much of a dent come 'scalpfest' this weekend.

I think most would pay the £10 over RRP and considering this first run isn't very unit heavy, that's an ok price.

Blimey I’ve just looked on eBay for these there are literally pages and pages of them for sale! One joker has one for sale at £999! :astonished:

Nintendo have said there shouldn’t be an issue with stock this time.
And that they are continuing supply into 2018.

So I’d suggest just give it time before supply catches up with demand, and don’t buy from scalpers!

I really hope this becomes reality and that scalpers are left with consoles that they can’t sell anymore.

That might be a place holder price until they know what stock they actually get, or it's someone with a serious case of optimism.

Even though it isn't even released yet they always sell on eBay at way above rrp, anywhere from £100-160. That's silly IMHO, seeing as no one knows what stock levels will be like as the previous selling out of pre orders has been artificially inflated by all the del boys buying them up.

Can't tell either way, I'd like to see enough stocks for all but it's nintendo so just have to remember previous years for unavailability of their consoles at Christmas time.

Its Wednesday? Thats 2 dayn not a week

1, calm down. 2,the poster says his was dispatched Monday which i just found a bit curious. Mon-fri to me is a working week.

Yes, it's always this way with Smyths. I think they just 'book' the delivery and then they sit there for a while, until they actually decide to send them out.

Thanks for that. It’s my first preorder from Smyths so wasn’t sure what was going on. Good to hear it’s normal though. I gues they’re just holding them back for delivery on Friday then. :grin:

Screw the retailers man, Nintendo need to get stock back on their site or force people to sell for RRP, wasn’t their whole press statement based on “don’t buy it for more than RRP”?

Surely they would just wait until the supply has stopped or just return them

£80 for a emulator. lol

It’s a win/win when doing a bit of scalping.

I have 11 lined up, if they all arrive (which they should) as long as I get £120+ for most of them, I can comfortably ‘jettison’ the last couple for £50-60 if I end up stuck.

Just take/send them back to the shop. No need to sell at a loss. :thumbsup:

I wonder if it can be modified to put more games on in the future.

How anyone can justify this price and Nintendo's distribution truly baffle me. Just get an emulator with a controller of your choice.

The entire concept of a deals website seems a bit pointless if one can say "just steal or pirate it instead"

good luck there,hope you manage to avoid the scammers apparently loving this item.

Thanks grabbed six.

Cold.

£10 above retail and Nintendo have said that there will be sufficient stocks and production will continue into next year.

They're also bringing back the NES mini.

Fake news

Not actually stealing if you can't legally purchase the item from the game company. Buying 2nd hand products from eBay DO NOT give the game makers any money at all. Please get informed before going into SJW mode please.

You can’t kid the kid :wink:

You can purchase the item though. It's at the top of this page, £79.99 from John Lewis. Hope this helps.

Raspberry Pi £30-40 with sdcard and hdmi cable and 2 snes controllers £40-60 if you get decent 8bitdo one.

I know how to emulate, I've done it on both my Wii and my DS. Not really the point though is it? This is a deals website, letting people know where and how they can buy things legally, yet a substantial amount of the replies on this item and others like it are always "just commit software piracy instead".

I don't get it. Retro games seems to be the only category of items where this is fair game.

is the nostalgia of having that old skool looking console & some controllers in your hand....
...with the ability to just plug it into a HDMI socket.

Takes me back to my childhood, I hope they do an N64 one.

The deal is on the items price, not whether its worth buying the item, thats a personal decision.

Still waiting for Amazon to be dispatched but got my email from Nintendo yesterday.

Sorry meant reply to ai777

It's a nice looking console, small enough and pretty enough to sit next to any TV in your house. It comes with two, new SNES controllers and HDMI cables. It has dual modes to show games in 'pixel perfect' or CRT mode (some games look better in the latter) and you have the ability to 'rewind' games a small amount as well as save/freeze progress. The games themselves are genuine and perfectly emulated classics, many of which play as well now as they did at the time.

£70-£80 is absolutely fine in my book, and I say that as someone who takes great pleasure in building his own PC's.

This crap fake news patter is getting old already...

Care to explain?

twitter.com/Nin…496

I doubt that, i Paid 59.99 for Street Fighter 2 Turbo alone.

do you post on all dvd/blu ray deals to just download the film for free too?

I still find it worth the money for what you get and you cant find it anywhere else for the time being(with no guarantee you will anytime soon).

I have a John Lewis giftcard from last Christmas I still haven't used so I'm gonna try and get one, definitely.

Absolutely. Why would you pay for something you can just steal? This whole website is nonsense. 20% off? 100% off or I'm not playing.

‌ :angry:

The price is just fine for the product and beyond the 20 old(but amazing) games on it, there's one full and brand new Star Fox which many would pay good money for on its own.

As for emulation, not everybody wants to contribute to online piracy.

...so you're paying just as much for the dodgy version. Smasher.

My reply was meant for ai7777 saying that this is good deal as buying the above would cost the same

My Argos order still not dispatched. Hope it is next day delivery.

Exactly

8.01 oos

Mine from Argos has just been dispatched today.

I ordered 2 just to be sure of getting 1, before I cancel 1 now that Nintendo has took the money and I know it’s coming if anyone near Dumfries wants the second one cost price I’ll not cancel

Yep.

Can confirm this.

In fact, the chap from Nintendo I spoke to (friend of brother in law) suggested they might even consider continuing production indefinitely.

I suspect a lot of scalpers risk a scalping here if folk can hold off past the initial sell outs...

Bank statement shows charge of £69.99 :innocent:

Upon checking it states the same as yours: possibly being held to ensure correct delivery date?

Do you think they'll price match the 69.99 ?? :face_with_monocle:

1 never pre-order it's bad for the industry. 2 have you read any news regarding Nintendo's awful distribution and artificial scarcity of stock. They gave 3 nes consoles PER STORE last year and don't get me started in the Wii launch and amiibo.

It's not piracy it's a legal grey area. I've spoken to a lawyer about it a few years ago.

Because for the past 15+ years there has been no way to legally purchase these games digitally thus it was a legal grey area. Nintendo have awful distribution which is why this thing is getting heat when it's OVER the rrp. The higher ups at nintendo are living in the past sadly hence 'old man's club' and Japan's culture regarding age. Look at Sega. I own all the games on steam and happily paid along with my library of 700 plus.

I don't know what to say except I guess I am glad you found this website to help you out for your future purchases

If you want the best price for a game on release day, it is actually best to preorder as you pay the lowest price...

Mine has updated now and says that it will arrive on or before 30th September. :worried:

Pre order exclusives are cancer tho.

Got my confirmation text from Argos earlier.

Oh and I remember on launch day paying £74.99 for Street Fighter II Turbo from Woolworths. That's was the RRP and the price in all the shops in my town.

Until Friday comes, no-one knows how much stock there is - regardless of ‘friend of a friend’ rumours. The Wii was in short supply for two Xmas’s in a row, Nintendo love to ramp up the hype. No-one knows the demand either - not every man and his dog will be queuing up for it.

What wouldn’t surprise me is the amount of people that don’t even know it’s being released - it’s those people that may increase demand next week.

For us who are on sites like this, hopefully we’ll all get one no problem.

From now till Monday get £10 of every £50 spend at smiths in store

Websites crashed for me!

Website has crashed :disappointed:

Sure you did. Justify your piracy if you want, but dont go encouraging others.

Anyways, site is overloaded, cant order - as expected.

yep, i'd be amazed if its not a reality within 2 weeks of release. Pretty sure its the almost exactly the same gubbins as the mini nes but in a different casing.

More jiggery pokery needed because of the larger rom file size but that's really dep on how much flash ram is on board but if there isn't then some form of compression will fix that.

How badly thought out idea !!!

Hey everyone be sure to get on our website at exactly 8pm so you can crash it ...

Lol jl site what a jke

Website is bust

I got as far as delivery page.... :smile:

Server overload!!!

Entire site seems to be down!

wouldn't you just know it, announcing it for sale at 8pm then thousands people trying at the same time crashes the whole website :joy:

Site was down, but now back up and running slowly.

anyone get one before it crashed? I got as far as the logging in screen

Server unavalible :disappointed:

Don’t forget your quidco. Coins lol

Gives you an idea how in demand this console is.

Was about to pay and it died. typical...

Not sure i've seen JL's site crash before. Wow maybe i will be able to sell mine for £999 this weekend after all!

There's no excuse in this day and age. You announce a "time" at which you know it will go crazy, therefore you damn well ensure your servers scale out to cope!

I was about to pay and it just crashed

oh man, i was in the middle of buying a fridge.

i paid for twelvty not sure if it went through, any one had confirmation?

A taste of what it will be like trying to order iphone x....

Ordered, with no problem at all. Had to go to the john lewis website via a google search though. Signing in to my account took about a minute to load but the payment etc was really quick. Only purchased one obviously.

Site went back online and I managed to complete my order (paid via Paypal). Don't lose hope!

Mines still in the basket but it won't let me go further

LOL, website crashing. Not sure I've seen this on the John Lewis website ever.

I'll stick to my immaculate fully working original SNES with games I have chosen myself :nerd:

Btw this doesn't come with a power lead/ac adapter

Stuck at the basket :angry:

Got one!! :heart_eyes:

No longer available

Well crashed at dead on 8pm! Just got one in my basket :-(

I want one but £80 is a bit too much for some games I could just download for free if it was RRP i'd defo go for it

FYI - I rang John Lewis and the girl processed the order instantly

I was logged on to the John Lewis site with my account, but still have yet to get past the "continue securely" button

Got an email confirmation and a pending payment from PayPal. Fingers crossed!

Sites back up but the mini snes in my basket has changed into a deep fat fryer?! and it only comes with 1 controller. Not cool JL.

I now have one item in my Basket costing £0.00. I think it's sold out...

T&C exclude video games :disappointed:


Offer excludes purchases of gift, savings, digital download or POSA cards, plastic bags, video games, games consoles, gaming chairs, Samsung and Kurio tablets, Skylanders figures, Disney Infinity figures, LEGO Dimensions, Gaming figures, Gaming plush, accessories or electronics

Has anyone ordered from Tesco and have they received anything saying that the order is on its way?

Yeah but it comes with a power/usb cable so stick it in the tv's usb port or failing that use any cable free phone charger head most have a usb port. Almost didn't post that because everyone knows this. (or i thought they did) happy to help!

I’ve ordered one from Tesco and one from argos. Received a text saying the Argos order has been sent but heard nothing from Tesco!

Girls are the best.

OOS

OOS

Out of Stock - argh

Out of stock. Took all of 25 mins max

Darn it. Sold out :disappointed:

So turns out phone was best way to get one. Got one on phone very easily.

Person I spoke to knew straight away what i wanted and I could hear lots of people taking orders for them in background.

lol site kept crashing and by the time it finally reloads it's sold out!

All gone!

If i could swear on here i would!!!! 25 mins of re freshing the page to get OOS when it comes back online.......

Pooooooooo

yeah, out of stock now. Oh well...

Useful to know for next time (possibly other sites as well) that phone is probably the best way to order

Waste of time

On the phone with last item in stock and agent didn't authorise it quick enough....gone!

Yea same with me and game have also confirmed that it's on the way, just waiting for Tesco now. Anyone got any emails from Tesco to say it's coming?

Looks like you got the one snes that they had for sale :raised_hand:

I see it crashed!

Guys, let's face it, the scalpers are gonna win... again.

Love how all the none deal posters come crawling out the woodwork when these types of deals get posted

mini snes party at my house friday.

Me right now

well if only deal posters were here it would be 10% of the sites current activity and it would probably shut down so be careful what you wish for

Was told there system had crashed there side as well and to call in the morning don't hold much hope lol

Scalpers exists because stupid people keep feeding them! They're bidding well over a £100 idiots.

What so we should all be greatful that you've never posted a deal ? LOL

Ffs. It added 11 to my basket with all the crashes. I did not notice and now it's emptied my PayPal, as cost so much

I have posted a deal and it got merged, maybe I should post stock alerts and -£1 RRP trollop like most, some people live on here and treat it like a full time job, not everyone can just sit on websites refreshing until a deal comes on, you'll notice 90% of posts are the same person who no lifes the deals, posting deals isnt the only contribution to the site, if you think so go tell the mods or something, adding heat and being active on the site keeps it going aswell, get off your high horse

I own 700 steam games and you calling me a pirate, please. If you can't purchase it legally it's a legal grey zone. It's out of stock. :poop: for brains I swear.

Love how you slag the people off that post up deals to help YOU save money.

As for my high horse,I've got a car don't you know :grin:

Stick em on eBay and your PayPal will be duly filled up again, and then some :smile:

I got my text from Argos this morning. Yes they have had my money 2+ months, but not paying a scalper a penny over £69.99.

What a stupid tactic from JL to let everyone know since morning when to order. Site crashing was inevitable. Will expire this now as this will only go cold from now... :unamused:

i'm not slagging off the people that post deals, whoever posted first was slagging off people that dont post deals, i just said it's not only about posting deals, i'm just saying this site cant run off only deal posters, it needs commenters and voters

If the same happened to others perhaps jl will decide 1 per customer and make them available again tomorrow

And most importantly it also needs people to click on the deal links and spend money : )

Lucky. I managaed to get 0, and I only wanted 1. 25 minutes of refreshing the site to find them OOS

You know what,you are correct.

I will stop posting deals altogether and just vote and get the deals instead,easier to just let others do all the deal posting and i can concentrate on doing better things with my time :raised_hand:

Good idea. I'll get them listed on there. Might even make a profit

Was refreshing my phone every few seconds leading up to 8pm and added 1 to basket but ultimately didn't get one after the site crashed!

It is likley. On phone I was told it was 1 per customer.

Don't know what all the fuss is about tbh... Here's all you peeps crying over spilt milk, and I've got about 4 on the way.

I got it a month early for £150 from the USA - thems were the days

I still have my NES, Gameboy, SNES, USA SNES, Game Cube and N64 (plus nearly every other console) I am happy to have ordered the SNES mini as I can play it with my son and not worry about my original

This is going to be the Christmas must have at this rate

Fathered two children. I work very hard and like to spend some spare cash collecting stuff I had or wanted as a kid.

It's almost surprising how long it took to deplete stock, given how quick pre-orders went in July.

They limit you to 2 so I'm not sure why people find the need to spout rubbish oh I got 10!

Weird thing to say. Did you mean not mutually exclusive?

Because they are undernourished individuals who crave the dead silence of envy over the internet?

P.S. I managed to get 28 in total, and I'm pretty smug about it too :face_with_monocle:

I did indeed get that slightly wrong, well spotted.

What load of rubbish is this? Narrow minded much.

And here's us people that only want one but yet can't seem to get one whilst others buy and sell for profit, sad world.

It's funny how an old piece of hardware can crash a modern website, just pure greatness.

Another Nintendo deal, another opportunity for you to tell us how many you are getting/how much you are making.

I think it makes you look a bit silly to be honest, but I presume you get some pleasure from it, so I guess it’s worth it. Plus I get something to moan about, which makes me happy, so win win, I suppose.

Obviously your keyboard warrior adrenaline got the better of you.

It was still a weird thing to say. Not going to apologise?

It was a ‘40 year old virgin’ joke, not the most offensive thing anyone has ever read I’m sure

Where is that quoted in the '40 Year Old Virgin' ?

Or are you suggesting people should just take it as a kind of 'linked to the film 40 year old virgin joke' ?

The phrase came before the film.

The film 'Can't buy me love' was named after a Beatles song by the way - the Fab Four didn't write it for the soundtrack :smile:

Argos email confirming I should receive today. Can't wait to bury it in the back garden so no one else can play with it. Neee.

I for one was shocked and appalled and wrote a stern letter to my local MP! :grin:

Jeez! Nintendo really ramps up people's sensitivity!

Today?
Mine been despatched, but delivery tomorrow

Thought it was 29th today. The ladies that look after me mustn't have changed the calendar again. Gives me time to dig the hole.

hope i've got a badge incoming.

Can anyone suggest or know easiest way to cancel a order with game? ive tried live live chat but its down at moment as ive just noticed my order for a mini snes has been charged but still not shipped and got one sorted from elsewhere now so just want to cancel it.