Topic: NES Classic Edition

Maybe it was because they discontinued the nes mini?

I don't know what past you were stuck in anyway

Look at eBay. One is listed for $50,000!

That doesn't bother me as much as some people. (I was able to get two of them back on launch). But Nintendo is stupid for discontinuing it. There is no debate there, lol.

sorry about that

Dang! Better be some free shippin' on that sucker.

I know one of those insane listings is "sold" but you have to wonder if the buyer actually paid or just clicked the buy button to tease the seller.
I saw Pat talking about an ebay seller selling fake NES and SNES console boxes (they did a particularly bad job faking the Nintendo logo, looks more like "N inte n d o") and I was tempted to leave a comment I found their listing, but then I hear ebay is not youtube and ebay could ban you for deliberately trying to spoil a sale with the "ask a question" form.

@bezerker99
it took every ounce of nice in my bones to decide free shipping as part of the deal.

If we get the SNES classic I don't even care

@DarthNocturnal I doubt Nintendo learned their lesson, this isn't the first time this has happened. Let see there was

The Wii
Super Mario All Stars Wii port
The Wii U Gamecube adapter
Amiibos

Yeah I have just given up on them learning anything. Unless they get rid of whoever is in charge of ordering and people who don't have any business sense like Reggie it will continue to happen. I have come up with two conclusions

A) Nintendo just doesn't give a hoot about their customers anymore.
B) Nintendo has some kind of deal with scalpers

Anyway I am done with Nintendo, if I want to play their older games I can find other places to get them from like buying the old cartridges, "certain" sites and of course there's companies like Sony with the Disney Afternoon Collection that know how to properly market an item.

@DarthNocturnal I was more getting at that I can play Disney Afternoon on Sony's console rather then Nintendo.

You said you were done with them last year. What changed since then?

Also, you have a funny last sentence. I didn't know Disney Afternoon existed until someone told me about it. How the hell is that properly marketing it?

I was at some bouncy house fun place this afternoon for a birthday party of my son's friend, and they had a game room with one of those impossibly hard machines where you can usually win things like iPads and Xbox Ones. This one had an NES Classic in it to win. Fortunately, I managed to pick one up a couple of weeks ago, but it stinks that with so many people not being able to find one there is one just sitting in plain sight and practically impossible to get. The funny thing, though, is that it was a PAL one, and I am in Tennessee (I thought the box looked different, and then I noticed the PEGI 7 label). Strange.

I've read those things are indeed rigged to have the lowest legally permitted chance to win.

Well, good for them. They'll be making money for decades to come from people who think they've finally found a way to get the nes mini.

My thoughts are what happens if no one wins it and the company that restocks the machine with different prizes rotates it out. What do they do with the unwinnable prizes.

To the burners they go.

So tinfoil hat on, I'm going to attempt to explain the "parts shortages" problem Nintendo cited.

Funnily enough, this idea came when setting up my Wii.

What controller port does the NES Classic use? A proprietary one. The one used on Wiimotes, actually.

In fact, the NES Classic can use Classic Controllers. And the NES Classic Controller itself, can be used as a Classic Controller on Wii and Wii U. The ports are identical.

Now, at the time the NES Classic would have been produced, the Wii U discontinuation would've been decided, and the Switch doesn't use those ports, so there is no need for them. And the Wii isn't listed on financial reports so it's probably, if not already, discontinued too.

It uses ports that Nintendo, like a lot of Wii era stuff, wants rid of. They wont make any more beyond what Wiimotes etc. they sell on now. Use the excess in NES Classic, shift em, boom. Spare parts gone.

But people want more. Now you need to keep making those ports that you don't want to make. Expensive ports, as they are unique. Why bother? You used the excess stock to turn a profit in addition to the licensing costs of the games themselves.

So walk away, revise it, use Bluetooth or just make NES Joy-Con or SNES Joy-Con. The NES Classic by design is tied to the Wii era, and they want far away from it.

That's the best explanation I've read on the internet regarding the shortages on parts. Well said and thought out!

@BLP_Software That's is a great theory and it makes sense too. With the sucess of the Wii, they probably mass produced those parts thinking that the Wii U would go over better then it did. They also probably used up some of the surplus parts on Wii Minis as well so instead of just having them sit on a warehouse collecting dust.....