SNES Classic

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Originally Posted by SEGA.GENESIS1989

This is especially the case with respect to Nintendo products in which they anticipate a high demand for. Gamestop, for example, will feature a statement advising consumers that "due to an anticipated high demand, we are limiting the item to one per customer". I suppose it was a reaction to the number of complaints they received. Or maybe it was due to the bad publicity; only recently have media outlets mentioned the fact that scalpers are using bots to purchase limited items online. What took them so long to implement this old idea? :?

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The big problem is that it's not reliable. On retail the face of the person is always the same so they'd have to go around several stores to get several of the same item (which becomes unfeasible after a small amount, too much travelling needed). But on-line presumably each bot has its own account and IP address, making detection (without false positives at least) much harder. I guess you'd have to rely on the address (and deal with the fact that they still probably aren't going to be the same, as the scalper may be sending them to some friends - proximity would be the only indicator and it's not foolproof either).

I sure as heck wouldn't want to be the person who has to come up with the programming to detect scalpers. It's not trivial except for the dumbest ones.

SNES mini teardown confirms recycled NES mini tech.

The same processor, storage and RAM sit on an almost identical mainboard.

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The use of what is essentially the same technology makes it much easier for Nintendo to resume NES mini production. Previously, Nintendo confirmed that a new run of consoles will arrive next summer, while SNES mini console stock will continue to roll out up to Christmas and into 2018. Settling on a common internal hardware design opens up economies of scale for the platform holder.

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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/di...-nes-mini-tech

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Originally Posted by Sik

The big problem is that it's not reliable. On retail the face of the person is always the same so they'd have to go around several stores to get several of the same item (which becomes unfeasible after a small amount, too much travelling needed). But on-line presumably each bot has its own account and IP address, making detection (without false positives at least) much harder. I guess you'd have to rely on the address (and deal with the fact that they still probably aren't going to be the same, as the scalper may be sending them to some friends - proximity would be the only indicator and it's not foolproof either).

I sure as heck wouldn't want to be the person who has to come up with the programming to detect scalpers. It's not trivial except for the dumbest ones.

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Then you miss the easier one.
Guy knowing someone that works at the store and that policy becomes effectively useless.
Corporate doesn't care who buys it.
They paid money for it, corporate is good. They will still hold onto some stock to try and push these bundle "deals" later on to unload high profit garbage to people desperate to get the system.

They don't even need to be blatantly obvious about it either.
Buy one or more gift cards with the value of all the mini's you want to buy.
Ring each up as a separate transaction.
Walk away with your pile of mini's to scalp for as much as you can get for them.
Toss your buddy $100 or so for helping you out if he's not directly involved with you and sharing profits in the first place.

GS employees are not highly paid specialists, I can't imagine it would be hard to find at least one at any given store who would jump at this kind of opportunity.

The same could be argued about on-line. Find somebody who works at the warehouses and the same shit can happen.

Welp, Star Fox 2 is already dumped. :lol:

It's good because the SNES Classic apparently has emulation issues with the Super FX chip (at least noticeably with Yoshi's Island having graphic glitches here and there). Star Fox 2 seems a bit slower in all of the footage I've seen too (it's supposed to be 15-20 fps most of the time), so I wonder if Nintendo mistakenly emulated it at the same clock speed as the first game, when it's supposed to be the faster Super FX chip.

Thinking of getting one from the stores today...

Anyone else trying this?

Our pre-orders for this neck of the woods will only be delivered to us "early next week".

The excuse given was that:

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The freight truck that our consignment was due to arrive in broke down.

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lol

I have one ready in the local game store right now waiting for me to pick it up, and another one heading for me in the mail. So yeah, luxury problems... Fortunately I have friends who didn't get a preorder in in time, who are more than willing to take the extra console off my hands.

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Originally Posted by QuickSciFi

Thinking of getting one from the stores today...

Anyone else trying this?

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I'm probably going to try to go get one before work but my expectations are low because of last years nes classic fiasco.

Yeah, my wife and I are both going to try

I figured Walmart would be open 24 hours, but there’s alreasy a line of people waiting for it to open. Gee whiz, wonder what all these dumpy middle-aged guys are here for?

Sorry for the triple post, but the Walmart I went to had 6 or 7 boxes of these things. Everyone in line was able to get one, with a handful left over for the stragglers. I amused myself while I was waiting by trying to guess which of the others were scalpers. There were a couple older guys that I had pegged, and I resisted the urge to call them out and/or taunt them.

If this store is any indication of how Nintendo is shipping these things out, there’s no reason why everyone who legitimately wants one shouldn’t get one. Hopefully all those scalpers just end up screwing themselves over.

Three posts in a row? I see you're now learning, fellow rebel brother.

I camped out since 3am outside my favorite Toys R Us. Met a couple of awesome people. Even got one of them tickets the store used to give out back in the 90s next to the products that you're supposed to bring over the the front register for pickup. Fed a duck some beef jerky. Talked about video games, horror, sci fi and superhero films, anime, transformers, 90s cartoons and toylines, game collections and stories about growing up gaming. Managed to snatch one from ThinkGeek while waiting in line. Walked over to BestBuy with the same bunch from Toys R Us and we all received another ticket (tickets started going out at 7am in all the stores). Saw a huge line outside of Target and didn't even bother. Had breakfast with new friends. Came back to Toys R Us to claim my ticket. The duck got run over by a car and died. Got some free water while waiting in line. Got my sweet SNES Classic from Toys R Us. Went back to Best Buy and we all got our second sweet SNES Classic from Best Buy. Can't beat this experience.

Hey, you got two??? OUTRAGE!!!!