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SNES Classic Just Announced By Nintendo

I heard it first from NIntendo's tweet this morning that a SNES classic is coming out 9/29/2017.

What quickly followed was a flurry of hype in the twittersphere. Among them, Amazon Games tweeting the following, and my response.

​The smiley face was for passive aggressive style points.

Really though... do you think Amazon, Best Buy, Gamestop, or any store will receive anywhere near enough to meet demand? I question why Nintendo even sells these through distributors instead of an online store of their own. Can't be that hard to set up the logistics for < 1000 consoles.

Of course I want one, though.

I love the games on the SNES Classic. Those are the games of my childhood. Of course I want one. But I think I'll be happier resigning myself to never getting one. Then, I can go emulate them all on a Retropie and have a grand ole time.

These classic consoles are the best Nintendo marketing we've seen in a while. On one hand they release these totally obscure experiences like Miitomo and fail to identify with real gamer demographics in the west.

Then on the other hand they create scarcity and have the entire internet participating in these huge Tickle-Me-Elmo product hunts where no one really wants one, they just 'want' one. Nintendo makes headlines.

::Shrug:: I don't know. I'll probably still find a way to want one and participate in the hunt.​

  • Actually it’s both good and bad marketing. Of course they are going to sell out but they are going to piss a lot of consumers off as well.

    Remember me asking you if I should buy a Nintendo Switch because my PS4 can’t do wifi 5g? Well I was thinking about it after easing your post and I just might not buy Nintendo again.

    Why make a console so limited not everyone who wants it can buy it. I couldn’t get the NES classic and I’m not even going to try to get the SNES classic as it would just be a waste of my time. If Nintendo wants to treat its customers this way I certainly don’t need that so why buy Nintendo ever again? Just for Zelda or Mario? Doesn’t really mean that much to me these days so bye bye Nintendo.

  • Nintendo can stuff their classic SNES where the sun doesn’t shine. After the crap they pulled with the NES classic I’ve no interest in their company and it’s products.

  • Sign me onto the same feeling as the other commenters. It doesn’t matter how good they make games if nearly every single experience I have had trying to buy Nintendo products has been a fucking miserable experience. Congrats, you build up a lot of hype for your stuff at the expense of making your customers resent you. Good job. I’ve learned my lesson though, and I don’t need that kind of negativity in my life for some video games.

  • I ask this question not to troll but is the appeal of these things vs just using an emulator? (piracy issues aside of course) I am 41 and grew up with systems like Atari, Intellivision and the C64 and from time to time I like a bit of nostalgia and fire up the emulator but I can not imagine paying for a newer version of the systems with only a select number of titles someone else wants to let me play. These things are so hard to get and even if you do they only give you a portion of the games to play, hardly seems worth the hassle.

    • It comes down to it being “new.” For some people it’ll be the fact that they don’t have their old consoles or games anymore and want to experience those again in a sanctioned way. Some people like playing them on their big screen TV with quasi-restored graphics.

      When I really stop hard and think, “is this worth $70,” then I think the answer is no. Oddly for me and some people that doesn’t always equate to not buying it.

      • Restored graphics? See I did not know they were doing any touch up. I thought these were just basically little emulators playing the original games. Makes a little more sense to me now that they are not packing them with entire catalogs and selling them.

      • The games on the NES classic were given a passover for optimization. They certainly look way better than they did when they first came out.