Nintendo Is Resurrecting The NES Classic Mini And Increasing SNES Classic Inventory

is everyone happy now!!!!

Hopefully scalpers will drop their prices now

\o/ hooray!

That's good news about the NES Classic Mini but I'm sure there's been loads of people that paid a fortune for it from scalpers because they thought it was never coming back.

Still, it's good news. And it's good that they're increasing SNES Classic Mini production as well. Nintendo must have found a cure for their allergy(Nintenmonitis) to money.

Cool, might well pick one up if they're available in the UK again, but waiting to see what the Virtual Console offering is like on Switch first.

Scalpers getting PWND

Time for people to find something else to whine about, and to whine about having had to whine about this. It's Nintendo, people will find plenty to complain about. They always do.

Make some use out of MyNintendo ... allow members to purchase or pre-order items like these directly from nintendo through their MyNintendo account that guarantees they'll recieve one. Hell, I'll gladly spend my USELESS Gold/Platinum Coins just to get a placeholder in order to buy one.

Well I hope I can now get a NES mini for retail price.

So no N64 mini next year then?

Nintendo "We have returned to our suppliers in Mount Doom and can now announce that we will, in 2018 be manufacturing new stock. The total inventory will be as follows:

9 Switches for mortal men, doomed to die,
7 NES Classics for dwarven kings in their halls of gold,
3 SNES Classics for the elven kings under the sky,
1 Limited Edition Wii Fit trainer Amiibo to rule them all,
1 dodgy scalper bot to find them,
1 lucrative eBay account to fence them all and in the darkness sell them."

Here's hoping they make more than six in the next batch!
Seriously though - great news.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE

Poor CeX are going to get shafted on their €200 stock

rubs eyes in disbelief

No freakin' way...

Seeing how Virtual Console on Switch keeps getting delayed, and reports keep coming in that indie devs are happy to not compete with $8 Super Mario World, churning our more NES and SNES minis totally makes sense.

@Rika_Yoshitake Except that many people already bought these consoles for scalper prices. They already won.

@Owaynott Hopefully. What goes around, comes around.

But I paid 599 pounds for mine.

I do need another controller even tho the classic controller works

Common sense has prevailed at last. Never should have stopped them in the first place. I managed to get mine first time round and i love mine so great news for those who missed out

I hope this means we're still getting an N64 Mini next year, I want a source of working analogue sticks! 😉

This is why going to bed is so dangerous. You think you can take your eyes off the world and get a few hours of shut-eye and BAM!, Nintendo starts talking sense.

@BulkSlash me too. I want

I'll believe it when I see it.

If we start whining now, do you think they can find some extra controller-lead length during production? -you know, since we're doing the whole common sense thing now?

I want another NES Mini pad for £7.99. I already have two, but I want to board swap a third with an original NES pad for that brand new pad feeling on my AV Famicom. A bargain for £7.99

Finally some sense! I wonder if they'll tweak the OS to prevent or being so easy to hack. Hearing people loading the entire NES library onto them made me want one, but by then it was too late,

surely, im dreaming...

Gutted I was hoping to make a massive profit on my Snes Mini (joking)

Seriously though this is great news. Didn't see that coming, especially with the NES Mini revival.

In your ugly face, goddamned scalpers.

well of course, i just bought one two weeks ago.

being able to easily add more games to the system made it worth the price i paid. I paid over $100 for it.

Did pre order two snes mini systems though.
guess i won't be able to return the favor with selling my 2nd snes.
thanks nintendo

This is awesome.

Never got a NES mini as I refused to pay the scalper prices. Hopefully everything is now happy.

Now no one will want or buy them. Nintendo will be doomed by listening to their whining fans. te he.

Seriously though pretty cool they are doing this.

Cool, hopefully I can snag one to go with my SNES one I was able to pre-order.

@Owaynott lol, ya beat me to the CEX jab.

I use a retropie with 8bitdo controllers. But I am TRILLED the scalpers will hopefully be left with loads of stock next summer, or even now.

I see CEX in Dublin are trying to sell, second hand NES Classics for over €200 still. Same ones in the window since the start of the year. For shame!!!

If more SNES Classics release to the market next year I'll might pick one up, to use.

Hmm. And my Famicom Mini has still not arrived after ordering almost a month ago...

Delightful. Now I can get both. Almost paid a scalper for an NES Classic a month or so ago. So glad I lost the bid on eBay.

Would love to see the face of the scalpers with dozens or more on ebay. At least they have family gifts for the next few decades.

Hope they will make it (NES Mini) v2, with more games or make one that's expandable with more games on cart at extra cost. Win-win.

The fact that they're extending these consoles into 2018 makes me worry about the Switch Virtual Console. And I doubt it will get any mention in Wednesday's Direct but I hope I'm proven wrong

Problem wasn't just scalpers but some websites and their goddamn $400 bundles!

Good to know the average consumer may finally be able to discover these products. I'm sure Nintendo wanted that outcome as well

About time, Nintendo!

Glad to see this. I want to keep supporting Nintendo but not really sure the switch is for me. This way I can potentially do both

Hopefully Nintendo sees how much of a moneymaker this is and that a lot of people just want to relive the retro glory days rather than spend a ton of money on a new system and games. I'd like there to be a market for both demographics rather than just one or the other.

Nintendo announces that 5 more units will be assembled in 2018...

Nearly bought a NES Mini this week for £130, but couldn't pull the trigger as something like this happening was at the back of my mind. Great news! Sell products people want to buy. Who knew?

I hope they used that creative pause in production to figure out how to extend the controller cables

Hopefully I can finally get a second controller for my nes mini!

Nice.

@JamieH I think it's clear that the VC on Switch can't (and shouldn't) be as it was on the Wii and Wii U. Personally I want every Nintendo game ever made on my Switch NOW but it kills the market for indie games and there are many (many) VC console games that can't be economically viable to reissue.

The NES and SNES mini are clearly one solution - a bundle of the best games in a really nice form factor and not tied an existing piece of hardware.

A bundle of classics on a cartridge would be another (but then you can't as easily sell to people who don't own a Switch) while another approach would be a subscription "NESflix" style service.

I'm going to be really disappointed if at some point I can't pay for and download Super Metroid, Castlevania 3 and A Link to the Past onto my Switch for play anywhere though.

@hcfwesker absolutely. Same with amiibo

@dew12333

Not until it's in my hands.

@rjejr
Well then...

See people don't give Reggie enough credit. He was right about Metroid and he wasn't just talking nonsense about the SNES either. But people are so quick to mock anything he says.

But I listen. And it's for that very reason I can almost guarantee we'll have cloud saves on Switch. He made a similar statement about it that I know he wouldn't just say for no reason...

Glad to hear that for those who weren't lucky enough to snatch one the first time around and smart enough not to buy one from scalpers. Might pick up a SNES Mini if I manage to find one then.

This makes me worry a tad for the future of VC, though, but I guess only time will tell what happens to that one.

@setezerocinco I heard from a source it was 10 😉

I still think the Switch will get a NES Classics game compilation cartridge just in time for Xmas.

I hope they produce a decent amount of NES and SNES consoles for those that want them. I waa hoping to get an SNES but so far no luck. I refuse to pay scalper prices.......I don't need anything that bad.

Wahoooo! I was scanning this article immediately after waking up, then my eyes opened wide in happiness. I have an NES classic, but I felt bad for the millions who never got one. I'm also glad the SNES will be available for everyone for the next year at least. Praise Nintendo!

@JaxonH OK, so now I have hope. Still not convinced, but there's hope.

And Reggie is just a mouth piece, he has no say over anything. Certainly nto over hardware production. He gets grief b/c everything he says is stupid.

Hate to say I told you so: This is basically the confirmation of no-virtual console on Switch.

A step in the right direction at least. Still holding onto that little morsel of doubt that tends to pop up whenever we're discussing nintendo learning from past mistakes

Why would the classic edition systems interfere with VC? VC is on a different platform and has way more games than CEs.

I think we see an obvious smart move here finally.

Nintendo getting bad PR over NES CE still. Now it bleeds into even worse over the SNES CE between the one shut down preorder plus saying they'd kill it at the end of the year causing a scalper panic.

They don't need bad PR on that level when trying to make sure the Switch doesn't fail and also fail its first holiday sales season that'll truly help establish it. As known they're holding back stock of those things to have the amounts to fill desire for the season.

It would make good sense to now pump out far more SNES CE AND keep it alive in 2018 too so no bad juju runs people into competitions open arms with smiles. To further this, they resurrect the NES CE too to really knife the scalper garbage and keep the good feelings going.

A small loss of VC potential peddling closed HDMI boxes can in turn give larger gains in Switch sales, game sales, more 3rd party support due to larger base ownership. It fits nicely.

Cable length is a deal breaker - such a stupid design oversight - and then not to fix it with later shipments and the SNES model - just mind-blowing.

Maybe I'll actually see a NES Classic Edition in a store for once?

Finally! Maybe the many direct tweets and emails to Nintendo and actual mail to Reggie did make a difference after all.

@StuTwo Yeah there are already nearly 6 million Nintendo Switches sold and more selling all the time. Chill dude.

I'm in shock.

Nintendo should be making NES Classic, SNES Classic and of course 3DS for as long as there is demand. They imply positive marketing and PR that favour their "premium" product, Switch.
They don't harm Switch sales as 3DS didn't either. If Switch gets a Virtual Console that's an added plus for Switch and for people interested in Switch. No way NES Classic and SNES Classic are negative for Nintendo, these retro consoles have rekindled and improved their popularity as a brand.

@hcfwesker
That really is a brilliant idea. It also incentivizes consumers to join My Nintendo and/or purchase Nintendo products while also preventing scalpers from using bots to scoop up inventory. I hope Nintendo staff reads sites like these and recognizes how clever your idea is.

Don't worry guys, scalpers will soak all of these extras up too B)

Well, this is more like common sense. As someone who missed out on a NES Mini, really happy that they will return to manufacturing them.

As ridiculous as the situation is for these things, I'd go from no interest to tempted if they'd start putting out alternate selections of the lineup. I'd like to see more sports titles (other than the NES Classic having the token two that are a meme plus Punch Out, which is more of a puzzle game anyway) and maybe a strategy title or two (Three Kingdoms or they could dig deep and give us Aerobiz).

I'd also like to see Pilotwings. Not only because I love it, but because it seems like an odd omission (unless we go with the theory that the SNES Classic's purpose is for collectors who don't want to pay premium prices on highly valuable cartridges).

THEORY TIME: I have a feeling Nintendo didn't consider how NES minis might affect their sales of old games on 3DS and Switch at the original launch. It was just a limited Holiday gap filler, after all.

The official story is that Nintendo was basing NES mini sales on the sales of other retro machines, so made a deal for a limited run, and maybe that holds water. I'm speculating that Nintendo just didn't foresee that the way higher quality, HDMI output, and official nature of the product would whip up the fan-frenzy it did.

The missing bit is "why stop production of such a popular item!?"

With the imminent Switch launch, Nintendo was probably worried that it would distract — it didn't know just how successful Switch was going to be and didn't want to mess it up with other hardware on the shelves. It also might have felt it could lean on releasing old games on the Switch as additional incentive to boost sales if the launch was sluggish, and stacks of available NES minis would make that less valuable.

(My guess is that the SNES classic was already in development as another Holiday one-off while the NES mini was on shelves, so that was never going to be scrapped.)

Now, Nintendo is feeling very confident about the Switch, the press on the classic and mini has been negative, overall, which is no good, and there is every reason to bring these to market in a big way.

I'm buying.

I think we can likely all agree here on one thing, scalpers are going to get screwed unlike before and it couldn't happen to a better group of subhuman a-holes.

Nintendo wants their money, and they want their money from Switch. Angering the base with the mini consoles and risking less Switch sales would be a worst case scenario they can not afford. So everyone here can win on this, with patience.

Great to see Nintendo listen to fans, take that scalpers.

Finally! Thank you Nintendo! The best thing will be all those scalpers who got 40 of them, just to notice that they're coming back on store shelves. I'll be so excited to finally get my hands on one.

Glad to know scalpers are finally getting the comeuppance they deserve.
As for the NES Classic, I hope Famicom mini gets a restock as well. Either way, this is amazing news. I kinda regret paying $40 for an extra controller, though...

Nintendo...listened? (grabs end times sign)

Hopefully I can grab Nes Classic this time. Oh, and ship it with two controllers with longer cables this time and with the added SNES features.

thanks for destroying the resell value, nintendo...

That is sweet news about the famicom mini. I am in Japan next year so I pick one up😊

They finally want money cause now they knew patent trolls are coming to steal them. What better way to make more money than to continue making retro box plug and play.

great news, I was lucky enough to get a NES mini (right place right time) wasn't sure I would have the same lucky twice but feeling better about getting a SNES mini

@TheIronChimp probably they will sell in bundles with The Legend of Zelda socks...

Nintendo's announcement that no more NES Minis were going to be made that they posted on Twitter included the phrase 'this year' or something similar and it seemed that every media outlet ignored that statement.

Imagine how many Wii U's they could move from old stock if they said "buy Wii U, get NES classic free" it would suddenly become a better seller than Wii even after they killed it.

@Metroplex360 Press didn't ignore it, out of control scared consumers did due to scalper loser behavior that freaked them out.

"Breaking news: Nintendo are shipping 3 more units of the NES classic edition"

Glad to see Nintendo recognizing demand.

@Ooyah
It's sad that it seems like they really think that way. It's not like we were asking for them to produce more of the original NES systems and make cartridges for them. It was a new product that sold out instantly and they stopped production within months!

I just wish they focus on the Switch (and a VC for it) and whatever life is left for the 3DS. I'm tired of the drama these classic consoles seem to needlessly stir up

And yes! This is why I refused to pay scalper prices

Here's hoping that doesn't Exclude "America"

@SLIGEACH_EIRE It's the people who pay scalpers that are the problem in the first place. If people would stop buying from them, the problem would go away.

@JaxonH "cloud saves on Switch"

Well that will happen. I don't think it's Reggie's decision though, that's corporate back in Japan where the entire country is probably backed up to a cloud with all of their smartphone usage. And between nuclear disasters, earthquakes and tsunamis, they should have everything backed up not only in the cloud but that cloud needs a cloud back-up somewhere off the islands.

OK, Edgar Cayce prophecies aside, I do think the paid online will get people cloud saves. May still be another year off though. Unless they delayed paid online to get the cloud servers up and running? hmm

Still, I haven't really felt Reggie has done much for years. Sure, he keeps things running at Nintnedo HQ in Seattle, it's a big country and they have a lot to do, but I dont' think Reggie gets to make a lot of decisions, not for a long time now - I think he's technically been demoted twice over the past few years. I'm sure they ask for his feedback, what he thinks, but I doubt Reggie has an original idea and gets it implemented on his own. Nothing big anyway. Maybe it was his idea to get DK and Bowser in Skyladners, I'll give him that.

@Amsterdamsters It's both, come on. If they wouldn't remove all the product from consumers hands and demand high payment with a sh*t eating grin on their face no one would have to worry about it either. If they could walk into a store and buy it as advertised they wouldn't feel the pressure to feed those crooks. Consumers, scalper filth, and Nintendo equally to blame.

@SonOfVon Till they be like "Ahh yes, but this is from the first batch of NES Minis, not those newer restocks! See look, its different because.....urm, the barcode! Yes, you won't see this bar code on the newer stock! Haha...." or something along those lines....

This must be why the stock is up over 2% today. I'm very happy to hear this! Especially the SNES stock increase!

Too late - I already made my own

@Pod Did Nintendo ever claim that they will be bringing back Virtual Console for Switch or was that just assumption? Cause assumption is not confirmation that VC is coming, it has to be confirm by Nintendo for it to be possible. I don't think I seen an article where Nintendo claim VC for the Switch is a thing yet, sure many has bring it up to Nintendo but the green light for it was not confirm. It may not even come for all we know.

still dont really care about the NES mini but this is nice for those who've managed to hold off on paying scalper prices (including those stupid thinkgeek bundles)

This is good news for those who were wanting both Classic systems. The question is, can Nintendo deliver?

I'm passing on both since I have most of the games that I'm interested in already through the VC. I would probably jump for a N64 Mini if that's ever a thing.

In case anyone is wondering (I know I was) all of this is true for Nintendo of America as well. Kotaku provides the entire Nintendo press release as evidence. https://kotaku.com/nintendo-bringing-back-the-nes-classic-in-2018-1803771394

@retro_player_22 Depends on your interpretation-- they did announce "classic games" via their online service early on. To me that was a pretty clear indication that "Virtual Console" (the term as Nintendo uses it) wasn't planned. But a lot of people did (and still do) continue to use the term loosely to refer to any retro game. I think that's why there seems to be so much confusion, so many people say "VC" when that's not what they literally mean while others still interpret it literally.

I predicted this back when it they announced the discontinuation in the first place and everyone else seemed to blindly accept that it would be permanent (even though Nintendo never said that). It seemed pretty apparent to me that it was only being discontinued because they had only originally scheduled production for that one season and already had the SNES prescheduled for this season and didn't have the resources the produce them both simultaneously (not to mention keeping up with Switch production). The NES classic was always guaranteed to come back, eventually-- it's just economics.

Ok... But what about North America, is the NES Classic being re-released here as well?

@retro_player_22 They said the Classic Game Selection thing with the Subscription would not be replacing the VC and that they were still figuring out how best to do VC on Switch.

I'm dreaming, no way Nintendo would do something with their fans in mind, gotta be a first for them. As others have said their is some valid reasoning that could be behind this, but I still just can't believe Nintendo is doing this. I have missed out on both Classic Editions so maybe I will be able to snag one this time around.

Also the fact that the NES Classic isn't coming back for basically A FULL YEAR makes me think Nintnedo is going to advertise these machines to play old titles. VC is not coming to the switch.

I'll get those, for sure. Hope they release a N64, GC, Wii, GBC/GBA, DS & 3DS like this in the future.

After past experiences you can't blame people for having doubts, hopefully this time around they can deliver it.

I might actually get both if i can order them for retail price from a normal store like a decent human being.

Wow, Nintendo? Doing something right?? Did hell freeze over, by chance?

@BravelyDavid Source or it didn't happen

I knew it!!!!

@retro_player_22
Interesting point. I'm not sure I've actually ever seen Nintendo confirm that it was coming either. Just heard others talk about it maybe showing up in early 2018.

Frankly, I wouldn't mind it staying absent. At least as an overarching concept. The way the NEO GEO games are just sold up front individually in the eShop might be an indicator of what to expect this time around, if Nintendo games of yesteryear were to show up as well.

"In short, Nintendo has finally realised that if you have a popular product, you should keep making it."

I'm sorry, but to me, that's embarrassingly naive if you guys actually believed that. Nintendo is a businesses whose job is to make money. The demand it had made its return inevitable. There's no doubt in my mind Nintendo always knew they'd be bringing it back as soon as they had the availability to fit it back into the production schedule, even while they were announcing its discontinuation (I seem to be the only one who noticed they never actually said the discontinuation would be permanent). They just couldn't say anything because 1.) They weren't ready to reveal the SNES Classic plans yet and 2.) With the Switch demand and SNES demand still to be determined, they couldn't possibly give a reliable time-frame. I'm amazed more people didn't see this coming. Despite their reputation, Nintendo actually had no actual precedent that would have indicated they wouldn't have brought it back. Look at their actual history--
First wave of non-Mario SSB amiibo-- "We have no plans to reprint at this time"-- got reprinted.
Super Mario All-Stars for Wii-- "We have no plans to reprint at this time"-- now back as a "Nintendo Select".

@retro_player_22 I do think we'll see the VC service return (in addition to the Classic Game Selection tied to the online subscription), but I think they'll end up dropping the "Virtual Console" name/branding.

Why? It's a Wii-era branding, and they've been distancing themselves from Wii/DS era brandings as much as possible with the Switch.

Wow, that's unexpected. Pretty cool that they're figuring out their production.

However there's that part of me that knows Nintendo well enough to think that this is really a "We were unable to produce enough Switches, but we hope you look forward to the ability to purchase an NES. Please Understand(TM)."

@spawn1210
Yes, NOA made the same announcement: https://kotaku.com/nintendo-bringing-back-the-nes-classic-in-2018-1803771394

This could delay a N64 Mini until 2019.
Two theories: they want to drum up business for a N64 mini for a release nearer Christmas 2018. Or they are working hard to secure Rare titles such as GoldenEye as they know everyone will want that. By releasing more stock of the other two, it buys time for getting the N64 Mini right and not a second- best library of filler games.

OH hey here's some gas for the fire on Reggie haters/lovers.

Reggie told TIME, “From our perspective, it’s important to recognize where our future is and the key areas that we need to drive. We’ve got a lot going on right now and we don’t have unlimited resources.” The reporter pressed Reggie to say whether or not the NES Classic could return at some point. Reggie said there were no plans to reintroduce it, at least in North America.

That a quote from a TIME interview 5 months ago in mid April 2017. Fascinating. He either is a liar, or got thrown under the bus by Japan and the continued demand for the thing.

@rjejr
No, I don't think Reggie has any control over those sorts of things. But he is in the know. So if he confidently asserts hey, relax on the Metroid crying and talk to me again this time next year (and then it happens), or if he says chill on the scalper purchases, you shouldn't pay more (and then they announce extended production runs), when he says yaaaah, wouldn't cloud saves be nice? I don't think he's talking out of thin air. I certainly don't think he'd prop up a feature to fans only for it to never materialize... he would have to feel confident it's going to happen to hoist up cloud saves as something that would be really great. He'd never say such a thing about a feature they don't plan to offer.

@JaxonH "He'd never say such a thing about a feature they don't plan to offer."

Well that's really a big part of the problem that Reggie has little control over that he takes all the blame for, he says things he "thinks" are going to happen but then they never materialize. Bill Trinnen said 2 screen Wii U games were coming, 2nd Gamepads were going to be sold. Gamecube VC was a thing, it was on the Wii U page listing VC, ut it never happened. So while Reggie may be "in the know", so he knows things, and then he says things, but Nitneod is sometimes slow to make those things happen. And sometimes they just flat out change their minds. So he gets all of the blame but none of the credit. He might as well wear a shirt that says "Shoot me, I'm the messenger".

Other times he just says stupid corporate bs things that make no sense. Like last year at E3 when he kept saying "We aren't talking about NX this year." It was even in the E3 ND. Reggie being Reggie. The Reginnator and My body is Reggie memes don't help his credibility as a reliable corporate spokesperson either. I think more people see him as the jester than the king.

Maybe they will cord longer

They're also selling the regular new 3DS in NA on the online store. Now the Switch stock needs addressing.

Hopefully they'll ressurect good stocking practices too.

@kcook33
Would you believe I still find the extra KO controllers for NES Minis?

@SLIGEACH_EIRE

XD Nintenmonitis!

Kinda bit late for the nes mini imo, but good news for both systems.
Hopefully do something about those dastardly scalpers.

@Ooyah

Lol

@StuTwo

lmao! epic!

"It seems like common sense have prevailed and we're going to avoid a repeat of the NES Classic situation; Nintendo says that shipments for the SNES Classic were due to end at the conclusion of 2017, but it will continue production into 2018.
In short, Nintendo has finally realised that if you have a popular product, you should keep making it."

LOVE THIS PAGE! Hahahahahaha.

Also I agree that it was about damn time Nintendo realise this. Now I hope everybody goes to stores and buy one. I'll promote this two products among my FB friends.

Watch out for grinders though. THey will buy 10 at the same time LMAO

This is fantastic news..... but I'm not ready to celebrate yet. Once I actually have a NES and SNES Classic physically in my possession, after having paid the normal price for them, THEN I'll be satisfied.

It only took Nintendo 3 months but they FINALLY realized that you should keep supplying popular products and not just arbitrarily set up cutoff dates despite the popularity of said products.

No idea why they discontinued it in the first place! If they were smart they'd keep both of these rolling off production lines for years to come. All I hope is that they haven't suddenly added more games to the NES because that would be a real slap in the face for the 4 people that got it last year.

I can't wrap my head around the appeal of "Classic Minis." They just seem like overpriced products. But I don't really have any nostalgic loyalty to physical consoles anyway. I'll play the games on my Wii U, thanks.

It is interesting to see that Nintendo's strategy for making their market friendlier to third parties is to remove their own games from the equation. It's so weird.

Hopefully my Canadian friend will be able to legitimately get one, next summer.

Well done Nintendo.

"In short, Nintendo has finally realised that if you have a popular product, you should keep making it."

LOL love this site.

YAY Nintendo doesn't hate money!

It's about damn time!

This is a heck of a rumor this "Nintendo of America" is putting out there on the internet, but until I see a SNES Mini on a store shelf this holiday season, I'm taking this as a big hoax.

@LArachelDisciple You're kidding right? 30 NES games for $60, or 21 SNES games for $80.... vs $5 and $8 per game on the VC.

This is not rocket science, these are both great deals and its why people want them.

Yay. Even though when I play games with pixels that big my eyes really hurt I might just get this.

They finally made a move I can understand. I've managed to secure a SNES mini but I missed the first one. I'll be ready to order next summer.

@rjejr "Well that's really a big part of the problem that Reggie has little control over that he takes all the blame for"

That's not a problem. That's exactly his job. He's just a PR guy. He's also easily replaceable. If he doesn't want to do it, Nintendo will just hire another person. I believe he enjoys doing his job, though. It's not difficult.

"but I dont' think Reggie gets to make a lot of decisions"
I don't think he can make any important decisions. He may have a say on hiring sales and marketing employees and other stuff, but that's pretty much it. He can give suggestions, but anyone can.

... wait. I know this is a U.K. based site but it specifically only says Europe.. is there any news of it coming to NA?

That's more like it Nintendo. Listen to what your customers want, especially if it makes you money.

Good job!

Nintendo has redeemed themselves.All that is left to correct now is their copyright enforcement.Well I guess it is their right to do whatever with their IPs but couldn't they set up something where all parties are happy.Anyway,I'm looking forward to picking up an NES Mini next year.

Take that eBay and Amazon scalpers.Suffer for your overpriced sins.

@XCWarrior Okay, you're right. It's good if you don't already have these games. I guess what I was saying is that the package has nothing to offer to me but the plastic shell. I have all the games I'm interested in, so it's that much money for backup copies to me.

I'd also just prefer the original console to a collector's item. But you're right, I was out of line and I'm sorry.

@LArachelDisciple No worries. Yeah, if you already bought them on VC there isn't much of a point.

I still have my NES and about 45 games, but the system doesn't boot up well. That's why I want a NES Mini. and I got a NES so late in its life (I was in 2nd grade and it was WAY cheaper than a SNES), that I never picked up a SNES. So I want the SNES Mini.

I am a collector, and I'd rather have an OG SNES probably, BUT I want things to work well.

Good, the NES Classic Edition was a gold mine for Nintendo to have. I'm glad their bringing them back.

I honestly feel like I just buried the hatchet with one of my best buddies after some stupid argument we had that neither of us remembers...

...Wait... I stayed up til... with nothing to show f...

Awww who am I kidding, I can't stay mad at you!

@JaxonH
You are right on target. That's a pretty good assesstment. I do think he has more influence than most everyone here gives him credit for though. He is the head of NA operations. Having worked for a couple if Japanese gaming companies in the past, I can say first hand that an international exec role in such an organization is more influential than control oriented. But when you are the head of the largest division, you analytics, marketing insights and demand forecasting carry a lot of influence. He may not carry the deciding vote but he has a place at the "table" and does play a role in their strategic planning. That is for certain.

@tanookisuit
Very simply, things change in business. I have no doubt that at the time that was the direction they were going to adopt. From the top down. But a lot can happen in 5 months. There really was a very large outcry from the consumer. And not just in niche pockets and forums like this. During just this month I watched 2 reports on national news broadcasts here in the US about it. When the issue reaches mainstream, companies tend to take notice. You can either steer your company like the titanic and forge ahead without ears to the ground telling you of warnings or you can be nimble and react to the market. Good companies, no matter their size practice this effectively.

For a while there, I feared that Nintendo was forging ahead full steam, damn the weather, damn the ice... but I'm very encouraged to see that they have decided to listen and make a way for their strategic planning to include these once-and-done products. This is a good sign.

That is SO FUNNY!! I can't help but wonder if a high ranking Nintendo executive read the thousands of angry comments across NintendoLife about these mini systems being impossible to get, and perhaps he thought "wow, I'm gonna make Nintendo a fortune with bringing these NES mini systems back, and selling mass quantities of the SNES one too!" They are much more likely to see tremendous profits from those than trying to get people to buy the Switch which is sitting on every shelf in every store now and not selling in this very large city I live in.

@XCWarrior Star Fox, Star Fox 2, and Yoshi's Island all beg to differ. First time they've been available digitally and legally, that, and it's not that crappy GBA port either.

@XCWarrior Star Fox, Star Fox 2, and Yoshi's Island all beg to differ. First time they've been available digitally and legally, that, and it's not that crappy GBA port either.

@XCWarrior Star Fox, Star Fox 2, and Yoshi's Island all beg to differ. First time they've been available digitally and legally, that, and it's not that crappy GBA port either.

@XCWarrior Star Fox, Star Fox 2, and Yoshi's Island all beg to differ. First time they've been available digitally and legally, that, and it's not that crappy GBA port either.

@XCWarrior Star Fox, Star Fox 2, and Yoshi's Island all beg to differ. First time they've been available digitally and legally, that, and it's not that crappy GBA port either.

@XCWarrior Star Fox, Star Fox 2, and Yoshi's Island all beg to differ. First time they've been available digitally and legally, that, and it's not that crappy GBA port either.

Just release some more VC titles for crying out loud! What is with the silence on that front?! No manufacturing involved nor scalpers!

@NinNin Reggie is not just a PR guy, he is COO of Nintendo of America and with that one of the highest ranking persons in that entire (very big) branch of Nintendo!

He is, in this case, still not the one who decides, since the NES mini produktion was stopped internationally.

Totally expected. It's a shame Nintendo weren't better with their communications and planning to avoid the scalpers market.

Good times, well done Nintendo.. maybe Argos had the heads up as they were offering the NES mini for a discounted rate a few days ago 😂

@Kirgo It's just a title. Nintendo of America is mainly a marketing branch. Being the head of a marketing branch simply means that you are the leader of marketing employees of that branch. Yes, he is the chief of operations, but the main operations of NoA are marketing and localization.

Between this and the Switch Online app update, things getting out of the way before the Direct is always a good sign. Tonight's Direct is shaping up to be decent at worst.

Nice to hear.
Now, those pesky Scalpers should be punished by Death Ribbon Revolution by Sailor Saturn.

@NinNin "That's exactly his job. He's just a PR guy."

Well it's not exactly his job. He is President or whatever, he probably has an ulcer and many sleepless nights looking over financials, sales, all of that, keeping NOA functioning. He certainly enjoys the spotlight, doing PR, but nobody can like all of that hate.

He'll never leave though, he works for Nintendo. He's probably well paid. So he deals with it.

Nintendo know they can make some serious cash with their classic mini series, it's a no brainer bringing these back!

Not sure where that might leave the N64 mini though but hay extra Nes classics and Snes is good enough for me. It's been nice that Nintendo has listened.

I think what would best compliment this would be a Gameboy Color closed system with a GBA SP (Brighter) quality level LCD panel in it in a GBC style rugged shell. Throw like 30 games on that or so, a mix of 1st/3rd party games that are both from the GB and GBC line of the best. I'd buy that in an instant and I think a lot would given the positive response to the ATGames handhelds over time for SMS/GG and Genesis along with all those odd dreamgear type systems.

I've been predicting that Nintendo would rerelease the nes classic and snes classic every holiday, since I got mine last year. I still believe that a gba classic edition will be thrown into the mix at some point. Nike releases one color way of the concord Jordan 11s every year and I've said Nintendo would do the same thing with the classics. I hope Nintendo adds more games or releases new models with different games to give those of us who already have the nes and snes classic preordered a reason to buy another one. I hope this announcement stops people from endorsing scalpers. These classics are a steal and not worth a penny more than the man. They may actually be overpriced. I am glad I got the nes classic on launch day at bestbuy last year and cannot wait to pick my snes up at GameStop later this month, but people need to stop feeding the scalpers because I've heard that most stores are going to have 50 snes on launch day. These classic models will be just like amiibos at some point, and I can't wait until the scalpers get screwed at the end of this month.

For some reason I'm mostly just interested in the fact that you can transfer the internals of and older NES into the controller of the NES mini, thus giving it a brand new feel for all the speed runners and people who still play the system. Hope it's the same case for the SNES.

Too bad they will likely fix the exploit to put the entire NES library :/

Well, w/e

well, atleast they know to make more of these and bring back the NES classic edition

@XCWarrior I don't know what part of the world you live in but I can help you fix that OG NES, let me know. Probably needs a CAP kit and a new 72-Pin connector.