ultimaton

This is from Reggie Fils-Aime, four days ago:

That doesn't sound like something that's been discontinued to me.

mphtrilogy

When there is money to be made, why would you discontinue it?

Even though it has been super annoying, i will still buy this thing when it becomes readily available. I have the original stowed away with a bunch of games stowed away. But for $60 I will buy this if and when it is ready to go.

starseed1981

If that's true then Nintendo needs to fire every procurement and operations analyst they have. That is a supply-chain deployment failure on so many levels.

slop101

"at least for consumers in the Americas"

Some of the "discontinued" talk was coming out of stores in Ireland, so maybe there's some truth to it.

I'm more interested in the Japanese version...



Does this play fine in US TVs?

fujishig

Should play fine but the games will obviously be in Japanese...

Music

It's a spaceship!

DVDTalker76

You realize those controllers are miniaturized to go along with the console (and hardwired), right? Look at the scale with the hand in the photo. They went all-out with the cuteness but it's an even bigger usability fail than our version.

auto

Aren't you just a bundle of joy.

slop101

I'm sure those controllers would fit just fine in our next president's hands.

DVDTalker76

Nintendo has a wonderful effect on me.

Adam Tyner

NPD reports December sales of around 223,440 NES Classic Minis in the U.S. I don't know where those units were sold since they sure didn't seem to be online, but that puts lifetime sales in the U.S. at around 420K. Between here and Japan, that's right at a million units overall. Numbers in the rest of the world haven't been published, although we should get those from Nintendo in April unless they feel like crowing about them sooner.

fumanstan

Yeah that's interesting, I basically didn't see any reports from US retailers about new stock. At least online.

david12

Picked up one this morning at target! They got six in stock w/ only five people in line.

Mountain Biker

Nabbed the last of 6 available at Target this morning. Sweetness

DVDTalker76

Wonderfully in-depth and interesting tech analysis just went up at Digital Foundry:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/di...ini-nes-review

On top of the general disaster this release has been, it's incredibly disappointing to read about the issues with sound output. I think the first thing people expected to differentiate a Nintendo plug-and-play console was emulation quality.

slop101

You would think tech this old would be a breeze to mass produce. Guess not.

milo bloom

It feels like Nintendo didn't really have a good idea of their target audience. Or, if they did, the cost required to make it work with all the games and improved sound and video would have put it out of reach of the mass market.

I mean the hardcore audience is doing this by themselves with a Raspberry Pi, right? So maybe it didn't need to be powerful, but they still could have had a better idea of how many people would want this, so that means they still don't understand what their audience wants.

But they're still a successful company, so they seem to know what part of their audience wants, at least.

I can't help but wonder that if they'd take a little time to really dig into their audience, they could basically take over the world?


Honestly, I'd rather buy these games on the Virtual Console. If we could get confirmation that those games will transfer over to the Switch, that'd be great news.

DVDTalker76

I think the modern system-on-a-chip inside this thing is powerful enough to get the emulation right. They just either didn't care as much as we would assume, or the European department that supposedly did the R&D aren't quite good enough to get it done.

Again, it's actually a fully modern, in-production chipset inside. This boils down to either mass incompetence or incredibly obnoxious marketing tactics. Take your pick - everybody's got a theory but only the insiders really know. I just know that I hate this goddamn company.

fujishig

I still say that if this thing was readily available, nobody would want it (kind of like amiibos).

slop101

If it were readily available and I saw one sitting at an end-cap, or something, I'd probably pick one up - either for me or as a gift for someone. But no fucking way will I ever line up for one, or even just go actively looking for one. Same with many other people - that's why Nintendo really dropped the ball on it.

DVDTalker76

Maybe now. But if they had properly stocked the channel during the holiday rush, people would have been grabbing them off the pile all day long.

DthRdrX

It's Nintendo, so this is a an easy one.

DVDTalker76

It's an either-or. Which are you going with?

Applejack

Got one of these at my local target today and I love it. Several games I can just pick up and play even if I only have a few minutes to play it. Definitely worth the $60. Hope they do this later with their other old systems

DthRdrX

Seriously? I have never seen any incompetence with anything N does , but they have a long standing history of high demand, extremely low supply.