Walmart cancels every Super NES Classic Edition preorder

Well, damn. If you were one of the people who preordered a Super NES Classic from Walmart last week, you should check your email. You probably have a message from Walmart explaining that it has canceled your order. The Super NES Classic Edition is the followup to last year’s NES Classic Edition, which was a huge sales hit for Nintendo. This time around, the publisher is mining its 16-bit era for an $80 microconsole that looks exactly like a Super NES and comes with 21 games.

But because the NES Classic was so difficult to find last year, some fans are starting to get anxious about the prospects of finding one when the Super NES Classic launches September 29. That’s why it was such a relief when I was able to preorder one from Walmart. As it turns out, that was too good to be true.