SNES Classic

[Raijin Z]

Nintendo is forever pushing more people to flash carts and pirate consoles. You know, so people can have fake fun.

[QuickSciFi]

Nintendo is definitely creating artificial scarcity, they've been doing it for 30 years, but there is also a legitimate flash memory shortage going on, and that's my point.

Fair enough.

[Armoured Priest]

Nintendo is definitely creating artificial scarcity, they've been doing it for 30 years, but there is also a legitimate flash memory shortage going on, and that's my point.

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).

[Greg2600]

Question: How much profit does Nintendo make on SNES Classic, after manufacture and license costs?

Answer: Clearly not enough to necessitate a massive production run.

[Benjamin]

I suspect Nintendo views its consoles and portables as its main business operations (and rightly so), leaving these NES and SNES units to be little more than a novelty. The company can't sell additional games for either, so there's no room for growth beyond the initial sale. The company likely consider this fan service no different than the items it has produced for its Club Nintendo prizes.

[EddieJ1984]

Nintendo is forever pushing more people to flash carts and pirate consoles. You know, so people can have fake fun.

It is no more fake than a snes classic.

[Metalwario64]

Nintendo is forever pushing more people to flash carts and pirate consoles. You know, so people can have fake fun.

I'm really hoping (and thinking) this is a joke.

[IrishNinja]

^yeah, if this everdrive is fake fun, i am all about that apparently

[Raijin Z]

I'm really hoping (and thinking) this is a joke.

^yeah, if this everdrive is fake fun, i am all about that apparently

Yes. The concept of a pirate/clone console, a flash cart, and a 3rd party controller, the trinity of falsehood, allows one to be free of the trappings of consumerism, to be embraced in artificial amusement. Fake fun, as I call it, utterly indistinguishable from the genuine article, and a novelty of novelty.

[EddieJ1984]

Well then I'll continue enjoying my fake fun with my raspberry pi and a ibuffalo snes controller :P (Tho lately I've been using a ps1 controller with usb adapter)

[Thunderblaze16]

So if I beat a game with no cheats or codes on a rasberry pi, I still fakely complete it? dam...

[Ken]

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime says that supply won't be an issue for the SNES Classic.

[MrMatthews]

You'd better not be lying, Nintendo.

[SEGA.GENESIS1989]

Seeing is believing! And I haven't seen sh*t yet!

[Hidden_Darkness]

I'll believe it when I see it, didn't Reggie say something similar last year with the Nes Classic? I'll still try to go get one but if I don't see a Snes Classic in stores then I guess I don't need one that badly.