Poll of the Day > Nintendo discontinued the NES Classic Edition.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Nintendo really hates money, doesn't it? There's a ton of people that still want that thing.
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Wow.. Nintendo be crazy

It's obviously because the virtual console for the switch is gonna be up soon, but either way that's so ridiculous..

Nintendo is fucking dumb
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Looks at Amiibo collection and NES Classic

Bwahahhahaahaha!

i've actually been looking for one to purchase for months now. i figured once the craziness died down i'd be able to just order one no problem.

well... i know the alternative now. i was going to go the legit route, but not anymore, ok?
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Just use emulators with roms.
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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatAnIdiot

Nintendo knows what's best for us, we just need to bow and have faith in their knowledge.

KevinceKostner posted...

Nintendo knows what's best for us, we just need to bow and have faith in their knowledge.

lol
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I'd guess there's a rerelease coming in a year or so.
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Huh, that's good to know. I still get people asking about it sometimes, and I have to give them the canned "we don't know" answer.
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adjl posted...

I'd guess there's a rerelease coming in a year or so.

If they are smart they'll offer the same package digitally on the switch

I don't have that much faith in them though
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Scalpers take advantage of Nintendo's notoriously miniscule supply.

The logical thing to do, for PR and for business, would be to increase production by a huge amount.

Nintendo, instead, stops production. This company is idiotic.

A lot of people pretending to give a shit about this.
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WarGreymon77 posted...

Scalpers take advantage of Nintendo's notoriously miniscule supply.

The logical thing to do, for PR and for business, would be to increase production by a huge amount.

Nintendo, instead, stops production. This company is idiotic.

Not necessarily. If you can control the demand by lowering production, you can sell more for greater profit margins. And that's exactly what they're doing. They're making them rare so that more people want them allowing them to sell for a higher price.

They'll probably sell a lot more in the future eventually, and they'll be able to sell a whole lot more then than if they had just made as many as possible now.
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DynamicD posted...

Just use emulators with roms.

Have fun getting modded.
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I just wanted one of the controllers. For $10, not $30+.

well they want you to buy $5 verison of all those games on the switch.
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Remember: this wasn't intended to be a permanent part of Nintendo's lineup, it was meant to be a one-off holiday season item for gift-giving.
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And why is it still so hard to find a 3DS in stores?

Mead posted...

If they are smart they'll offer the same package digitally on the switch

They'll offer all the same games individually at higher prices. They'll also likely double-dip, and people who bought games on previous versions of the Virtual Console will have to buy them again.

But while that seems like good business sense, it ignores the fact that a lot of people who would have bought an NES Classic for purely nostalgia purposes have no interest in owning a Switch, and won't buy one just to access the Virtual Console. While nostalgia is very potent for cheaper spur-of-the-moment purchases on a whim, it tends to fail when a lot of time, effort, and money is required to scratch the same itch.

A lot of people willing to pay for $60 for 30 or so NES games (out of which there's maybe a dozen you actually care about, if that) aren't going to be willing to pay $400+ for those same games.



jsb0714 posted...

A lot of people pretending to give a shit about this.

To be fair, I don't give a shit about the NES Classic, but I WAS waiting to see if they eventually came out with an SNES Classic, because that might actually have games worth playing. But odds are we won't be seeing one, and discontinuing the NES Classic just sort of reinforces that.

That being said, you don't have to really want to buy one to still think Nintendo is being incredibly stupid about how they handle their marketing and production, because they've been fucking up for decades now. Their only real saving grace is dominance in the handheld market and the ability to produce underpowered hardware at a net gain - without that, they likely would have gone the way of Sega years ago.


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shipwreckers posted...

DynamicD posted...

Just use emulators with roms.

Have fun getting modded.

You know how many times I heard that phrase during my time in GameFaqs.

"Have fun getting modded" "I'm reporting you" "You're getting banned" "You're blacklisted" "Bye-Bye" "I'm setting you to ignore" "Your account will be deleted" "You've been warned"

About every single day.


And yet I'm still here, not giving a damn.
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Huh, well, ok. I mean, I can emulate them all, but as something cool to just have.. I wanted to get one of those.

I would have bought one...
...IF I HAD SEEN ONE IN STORES!
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