SNES CLASSIC MINI announced

[lendelin]

I'm sorry if this was posted before, I couldn't find it though:

Nintendo announced the SNES Classic mini with 21 games. Release date: September 29th, Price: $80.

Something special is the inclusion of Star Fox 2 which was never released on the SNES or Super Famicom. All the usual suspects are there, additionally Kirby Super Star, Kirby's Dream Course and Earthbound(!).

Let's hope that this little machine will get more production numbers than the NES Classic Mini resulting in way more happy gamers and less happy ebay scalpers.

Link:

http://www.nintendo.com/super-nes-classic

[AdamAnt316]

To me, it doesn't mean crap one if it doesn't actually make it into the stores in sufficient numbers so that actual human persons have a chance of actually finding one on the shelves in order to buy for the retail price which Nintendo set. I'm still pissed off at Nintendo for the complete and total fustercluck they made out of the entire NES Classic Mini fiasco. I waited months for it to show up in stores fully willing to give Nintendo my $60, only for them to unceremoniously pull it from the market. The only people who benefitted from their stupidity were the scalpers. I'm not sure if I'll ever forgive them for the gigantic middle finger they gave their loyal buying public.
-Adam
Oops, I seem to have melted the contents of the soapbox I was standing on...

[kainemaxwell]

Im sure when the chosen few buy it, itll get hacked into a big snes emulator system like the nes classic was.

[lendelin]

I think the compilation of the games is great, I was just really surprised to find Star Fox 2 on it.

Nintendo has to get the production numbers right this time, otherwise ebay scalpers will hoard the SNES mini and ruin it for a lot of gamers.

I still don't have a NES classic mini because I adamantly refuse to pay more than the retail price for it. (If I have the feeling someone takes advantage of me, I become stubborn like a mule. If someone would offer the NES mini right now for $70, I would not buy it. I'm terrible this way.) At times there were 2000 to 3000 NES classic minis on ebay, and when the prices finally went steadily down Nintendo announced the discontinuation of the little machine. Truly bad.

[celerystalker]

I feel like it's an insanely good lineup, but as everyone has said, Nintendo will probably fuck it up again.

[eskobar]

To me, it doesn't mean crap one if it doesn't actually make it into the stores in sufficient numbers so that actual human persons have a chance of actually finding one on the shelves in order to buy for the retail price which Nintendo set. I'm still pissed off at Nintendo for the complete and total fustercluck they made out of the entire NES Classic Mini fiasco. I waited months for it to show up in stores fully willing to give Nintendo my $60, only for them to unceremoniously pull it from the market. The only people who benefitted from their stupidity were the scalpers. I'm not sure if I'll ever forgive them for the gigantic middle finger they gave their loyal buying public.
-Adam
Oops, I seem to have melted the contents of the soapbox I was standing on...

Nintendo has always been conservative on estimating the demand of its products and they have always retained or limited stock from its customers, I happened since the NES, it was a huge factor of its high demand for the Wii and I think that the Switch is not widely available in the USA.

Regarding units produced of the Nes Classic Mini, I have read that the have sold more than 2 million units ... and if the Mini is sold-out, producing more than 2 million units is quite a high number for a product that has a very limited market, hope they produce more, but even if you produce 10 million snes classics, they could easily be bought by resellers

[AdamAnt316]

Nintendo has always been conservative on estimating the demand of its products and they have always retained or limited stock from its customers, I happened since the NES, it was a huge factor of its high demand for the Wii and I think that the Switch is not widely available in the USA.

Regarding units produced of the Nes Classic Mini, I have read that the have sold more than 2 million units ... and if the Mini is sold-out, producing more than 2 million units is quite a high number for a product that has a very limited market, hope they produce more, but even if you produce 10 million snes classics, they could easily be bought by resellers

If the units had shown up at stores in sufficient numbers to satisfy consumer demand, there would have been no reason for scalpers to buy them up for resale. Nintendo set the retail price at $60, and $60 is what I intended to spend on one. I figured that there would be a holiday rush, but after a month or so had passed, demand would die down, and perhaps I could manage to pick one up at said retail price. Once February rolled around, I started checking local GameStops numerous times, and they never had any. An employee at one of them suspected that they had been discontinued about a month before they actually had because he hadn't seen any delivered there in some time.
-Adam

[megasdkirby]

Scalpers are already having orgasms and boners just thinking about the Super NES mini.

Why? Because Nintendo do are ducking idiots and never learn their lesson. They will, once again, manipulate item quantity making it hard to get again.

[eskobar]

If the units had shown up at stores in sufficient numbers to satisfy consumer demand, there would have been no reason for scalpers to buy them up for resale. Nintendo set the retail price at $60, and $60 is what I intended to spend on one. I figured that there would be a holiday rush, but after a month or so had passed, demand would die down, and perhaps I could manage to pick one up at said retail price. Once February rolled around, I started checking local GameStops numerous times, and they never had any. An employee at one of them suspected that they had been discontinued about a month before they actually had because he hadn't seen any delivered there in some time.
-Adam

Yes, but for that to happen, Nintendo had to produce 4 million or more units to have stock in stores and quite possibly have a few hundred thousand unit heavily discounted sitting at retail stores ... that would be great for us, the customers, but not as good for Ninty.

Nintendo doesn't gamble, they did great business with the Classic Mini. Resellers have deep pockets and if they decide that one product will be an easy sale, they could easily buy the entire production of the SNES Classic.

Nintendo could limit the sales to one console for person, but that would be stupid because they want to sell the stock ASAP, this is a product line that is hard to set up as a constant restock because the market is very limited and the novelty wears out. Serious classic games don't care that much for bad emulated classics on FPGAs as they usually have the original hardware and games... and if you have the original hardware you could purchase a rom cart and download any game you want and play it, illegally, on original hardware.

Don't get me wrong, the deal is really sweet, you have very cheap legal licenses of great games and I would love to see this at retail price, but this scenario is highly unlikely because you need to overproduce.

I prefer to invest the 80 usd on a video game or original vg soundtrack