https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/14/18140909/nintendo-nes-snes-classic-console
Nintendo’s NES and SNES Classic consoles are going away after the holidays — probably for good this time. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter this week, Nintendo of
America president Reggie Fils-Aimé said that the mini-consoles will be going out of production, and once the holiday season stock sells out, they won’t be restocked.
Nintendo isn’t new to supply issues. The NES Classic immediately sold out when it was first released in November 2016, with resellers charging hundreds of dollars for the popular
product. Initially discontinued in April 2017, Nintendo rereleased the $60 NES Classic this past June, and it has been fairly easy to come by ever since.
The company corrected its mistake with the SNES Classic, its second mini-console. Nintendo promised significantly more shipments and ramped-up production when it was released
in September last year. As a result, the SNES Classic never ran into the same impossible-to-find supply issues as the NES model. But soon, Nintendo fans will return to the point where
finding a console at original pricing might prove pretty difficult.
Rather than focusing on nostalgia gadgets, Nintendo wants to direct gamers to the classic content it’s adding to Nintendo Switch Online, which includes NES games like Super Mario
Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and other titles. This month, Nintendo is adding Ninja Gaiden, Wario’s Woods, and Adventures of Lolo to the service.
They're everywhere now. I went to Bestbuy a couple of weeks ago and they had several of them stacked up on the shelf.
I'm gonna assume they're doing the same thing they did with the NES. Freeze production for several months, and then bring it back again closer towards the holiday season next year.
thanks nintendo. didn't plan on buying one or anything...
in other news, how about that raspberry pi, huh? pretty neat, dont you think?
I hope they don't do any more of these and just stick to putting stuff on the switch.
Joke's on them, my homebrewed Wii is a better emulation machine and I've even got a Japanese Club Nintendo-edition Super Famicom controller that plugs into the Wii's controller port like a Classic Controller. Why wait for Switch Online to dripfeed NES roms that've been on the Wii VC forever.
I'd gladly pay for Switch Online and buy the dumb Switch-Online-roms-ONLY NES controller if there were 100 NES titles and 50 SNES titles to choose from, but this three-NES-titles-at-a-time business isn't convincing me at all. Nintendo is doing a shit job of competing with the emulation world.
Then buy one? Every store I went too recently has had multiple in stock.
These have both had 12 months of availability now, I see stacks of them in stores all the time now. People who really wanted one have already got them. They probably didn't sell well this holiday season so that was Nintendo's cue that they've satisfied everyone. They shouldn't have announced they are going away though, it's going to encourage scalpers
Both have been readily available since the restock of NES Classic on summer so really you don't have any excuses if you did plan on picking one up.
Looks like he is running it on a ASiair and probably with stellarmate OS, was thinking to get one eventually for EAA and astrophotography with my celestron C8, playing some snes while waiting for the long exposure time stacking would make sense.
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