meh butthurt over a limited time product selling out? Entitled folk need to get over it

There will likely be another round of preorders, launch day units and several restocks. The first round was always going to sell out instantly. Lets see how things look in a few months.

Is the demand really THAT HIGH?

This is exactly my point in my other thread. Nintendo is screwing up customer trust. It doesn't matter if your opinion is the blame should be on scalpers/retailers... the consumers will blame, rightfully, Nintendo.

The thing also to point out is that Nintendo doesn't have their own manufacturing lines. They have to pay for manufacturing lines with as much orders as they can order. Its not a simple snap of the finger as its not as accessible when needed. That's what they have been facing with Switch manufacturing, especially since there is a year round shortage of the NAND memory chip.

I don't know how many would want this (though having Star Fox 2 and Yoshi's Island would entice customers who want to play these games), given most of the games are either emulated in other avenues or they have the original console and all.

I don't get it. Nintendo KNOWS people want this stuff. Yet they INTENTIONALLY make limited quantities to make them "rare".

It's a garbage way of doing business. Nintendo needs to pull their heads out of their proverbial butts.

I am grateful that I still have TWO NES AND SNES's. So I'll never bother with this "mini" nonsense.

There are plenty of NES Classics available on Ebay and I'm sure it'll be the same with the SNES Classic.

Same here. Even though I own all of their original hardware and every important game via cart, I still wanted an NES classic for the novelty. But after I found out that I couldn't get one for the price they said it would be ($60.00 for the system and $9.99 for controllers) due to supply issues and scalpers, I gave up. I didn't even care when a SNES classic was announced. I knew it would be pointless and a waste of my energy and blood pressure to try. I suppose the fact that I own the real systems mitigates that... but yeah. It's not worth it. 

Roms will never devalue the real carts because they're cheap, inaccurate knock offs. It's like saying fake Rolex watches devalue real Rolex watches. 

I hope that those initiative don't clash in that way, or that's a pretty anti-consumer move by Nintendo D: looks like they're trying to stay competitive and profitable in the modern console space, but boy, sometimes they're playing with commercial fire in many new and amazing ways these days!