SNES Classic

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Originally Posted by Armoured Priest

I think with Nintendo its two sides o the same coin.

With the Switch, if not for the NAND shortage, Nintendo absolutely would be pushing more units out there. Unfortunately the Switch uses some of the same components as Apple and Samsung phones, and those are much bigger markets.

For the SNES mini? While Nintendo has said there'll be more of them compared to the NES mini (considering the SNES was more popular world wide, this makes sense), I seriously doubt Nintendo is pushing as hard as it could...Nintewndo is very likely pursuing scarcity with the SNES mini to drive people going to the stores. It sucks for people who aren't going to get one (at least without having to deal with a scalper).

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I don't believe at all that the snes was more popular than the nes worldwide, except maybe in japan.

The NES definitely sold better worldwide than the SNES, but I think there's more of a market today for SNES than NES.

So Nintendo has announced the NES Classic is going back into production for a 2018 release, and they are preparing more SNES Classics for the launch than the entire original production run of NES Classics.

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Originally Posted by Gryson

So Nintendo has announced the NES Classic is going back into production for a 2018 release, and they are preparing more SNES Classics for the launch than the entire original production run of NES Classics.

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Good, death to scalpers!

It would be sweet justice if all of the resellers who bought up the NES Classic were stuck selling them at below retail rates.

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Originally Posted by Gryson

It would be sweet justice if all of the resellers who bought up the NES Classic were stuck selling them at below retail rates.

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don't kid yourself. This thing will never go below retail rates.

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Originally Posted by Baloo

don't kid yourself. This thing will never go below retail rates.

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I'm more of a skeptic on whatever NoA says nowadays, but for what it's worth, scalpers must be sweating bullets right now.

I wonder if they redesigned the NES classic to prevent hacking? That would make it 100% useless.

Hackers can be stopped, what?

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Originally Posted by Thief

Hackers can be stopped, what?

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Well you can't really hack the Wii Mini, can you?

Do they care about people hacking the NES Classic? I mean, if you want to play downloaded ROMs, there ARE other options available... The percent of people buying the NES Classic to hack has got to be small, anyway.

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Originally Posted by zetastrike

I wonder if they redesigned the NES classic to prevent hacking? That would make it 100% useless.

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I'm willing to bet the next NES Classic will have a different lineup. If at least by a single game.

It's possible. Who knows what the licensing agreements for the third party games were like.

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Originally Posted by QuickSciFi

I'm willing to bet the next NES Classic will have a different lineup. If at least by a single game.

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SimCity? :) They have to stick to bread and butter titles so probably nothing too interesting. I'd take one of the later Mega Mans and maybe Shatterhand or Power Blade, but those don't command the feels.

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Originally Posted by NeoVamp

Good, death to scalpers!

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Nah! It`s really not a loss for the average scalper. If Nintendo releases enough supply, a scalper will recover their money by selling it for the purchase price.

With so many vultures around, I started to notice that alot of online stores in Canada are now limiting the number of units a person can purchase of a particular item.

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? :?

Well, lets wait and see whether Nintendo keeps their word and increases the supply of both the SNES and NES classic. If I can`t walk into a store and see that the item is on the store shelf, I won`t go out of my way to seek it out. I`ve got other things to worry about then hunting down a hunk of grey plastic.