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People are still spreading this tripe, damn.
It's really funny. Expecting the next excuse to be "Nintendo care about the environment, thank you Nintendo. please take the extra chargers I don't use."
People are still spreading this tripe, damn.
Does your TV have USB entries? You can plug it there.Why does Nintendo keep selling incomplete hardware? And why do people keep taking this shit? There's no power cable, just a USB cable. How do I power this thing then?
Nintendo just presumes I have a USB power brick lying around, just like they presume everyone has a 3DS charger. So done with this company.
Dudes, is the PAL version of this thing identical to the NTSC version? No 50Hz shenanigans?
Yep, all 60Hz in the European one.
I believe this as much as I believe moon landing or 9/11 conspiracies.Nintendo underestimated demand, but this is not a limited edition.
I believe this as much as I believe moon landing or 9/11 conspiracies.
And to keep this from being a drive-by shit post, I don't have any facts to back up my viewpoint. Nintendo plays this card with so many hardware releases, yet the other console manufacturers have handled launches way better. Like, with preorders, for example.
There is literally no reason to keep supplies of a product like this constrained and miss the entire holiday season.
If you wanted to resell, you should have done it before Xmas.
Nintendo underestimated demand, but this is not a limited edition. As long as it keeps selling, they'll keep making.
There is literally no reason to keep supplies of a product like this constrained and miss the entire holiday season.
Itagaki talking about super-low print run on Devils Third said:This is the case in any U.S. company, especially in the sales division; they always underestimate the sales performance. This way, when they sell over the low estimated sales, they can claim a higher percentage over estimated sales and request a bigger bonus accordingly. There is a typical tendency for this to happen. That's a fact, and it's a flaw in U.S. sales strategy.
They sold 200,000+ units so it's not like they "missed" it. But I refer you to our overlord Tomonobu Itagaki's recent interview for some insight:
Source: http://www.polygon.com/features/201...-and-future-of-tomonobu-itagakis-devils-third
Fact is, they can't go saying "here, make 500,000 units for launch" if they think they'll only sell 250,000. Or if their official projections say they'll sell between 150,000 and 200,000 units, it makes no sense to HQ for them to manufacture more than 150,000 initial units.
But they can estimate they'll sell 100,000 but still make 125,000 just to be "safe", and then when demand blows away their deliberately super-conservative internal projections, they can scramble to pump out some extra units and claim them all as "unanticipated demand" in order to request a bigger bonus from HQ..
But truthfully, we KNOW they knew demand was higher because retail people like me ordered way more than were shipped. They did this on purpose.
There's another aspect to this: they're selling these for $60 each, but its BOM is going to be waaaayyy higher than any single $60 Wii U game. Since it's more expensive to produce and a new product category for them, that is probably also a factor in why they were deliberately over-conservative.
checked my local Walmart today and they didn't have any...the space on the shelves was there but none in stock
looked online at the ebay price and lol...no
I'll just keep an eye out every now and then to try and get one eventually
Then at the very least you're saying Nintendo is incompetent. Which is quite frankly a tired argument. This clearly isn't the first time they've been behind when it comes to something like this. The Wii and Amiibo are the first to spring to my mind.
For what it is. It's a relatively cheap product, clearly not hard to produce etc. At the very least you're saying Nintendo doesn't even know their own fanbase. There are clearly hundreds of thousands hell maybe even a couple million who would have bought this. It made no sense to produce less units here in NA than it did in Japan.
In reality they should have had preorders for Amazon, GameStop Best Buy etc.
But actual data don't support your statement about the WiiThen at the very least you're saying Nintendo is incompetent. Which is quite frankly a tired argument. This clearly isn't the first time they've been behind when it comes to something like this. The Wii and Amiibo are the first to spring to my mind.
I think it takes a little longer to load a game or suspend point when the CRT filter is turned on. There's a little extra overhead when that filter is enabled.
Probably imperceptible to 99.9% of people playing this thing but I'm constantly pushing the home button on my Classic Controller and abusing the hell out of save states.
I was also reading some of the early impressions and comments from nesdev regarding the emulation. The CRT mode does something to distort the audio. I sat and played the end of Super Mario Bros. 2 a couple of times with/without the filter and the CRT mode tends to bend/distort a few notes.
Couldn't this be intentional?? I think to remember when playing my old Nes, that some sounds were odd at times. Maybe it emulates bad tv speakers. What type of distortion is it?
But actual data don't support your statement about the Wii
The reason the Wii was supply constrained until 2009 was that demand was unprecedented.
I think it takes a little longer to load a game or suspend point when the CRT filter is turned on. There's a little extra overhead when that filter is enabled.
Probably imperceptible to 99.9% of people playing this thing but I'm constantly pushing the home button on my Classic Controller and abusing the hell out of save states.
I was also reading some of the early impressions and comments from nesdev regarding the emulation. The CRT mode does something to distort the audio. I sat and played the end of Super Mario Bros. 2 a couple of times with/without the filter and the CRT mode tends to bend/distort a few notes.
In other news, I'm in World 8 of SMB3 and I rage quitted yesterday because of how hard it is. How in the hell did people manage to beat the thing in one sitting, playing all the content, without saves back in the day.
checked my local Walmart today and they didn't have any...the space on the shelves was there but none in stock
looked online at the ebay price and lol...no
I'll just keep an eye out every now and then to try and get one eventually
If there is ever a SNES Classic Edition I wonder how hard it'll be to get. Also if the US and PAL versions have the same games but different external shells, I'll be hard pressed to decide which to get.
If there is ever a SNES Classic Edition I wonder how hard it'll be to get. Also if the US and PAL versions have the same games but different external shells, I'll be hard pressed to decide which to get.
If there is ever a SNES Classic Edition I wonder how hard it'll be to get. Also if the US and PAL versions have the same games but different external shells, I'll be hard pressed to decide which to get.
If the PAL version has 50Hz games because of the Germans, i won't buy that
We got literally 1 in today. Not even a full shipping case, just a singular NES Classic. Got a chuckle out of me to see it on the manifest. I'm hoping whoever bought it intends to actually play it and it wasn't a reseller.
It won't. they just released the NES mini with Super Contra on it, Probotector is dead.If the PAL version has 50Hz games because of the Germans, i won't buy that
Oh Nintendo.We got literally 1 in today. Not even a full shipping case, just a singular NES Classic. Got a chuckle out of me to see it on the manifest. I'm hoping whoever bought it intends to actually play it and it wasn't a reseller.
Ordered an Raspberry Pi kit off Amazon today along with a Bluetooth SNES controller. Oh well, missed opportunities everywhere Nintendo.
Which one did you get?
I'm also interested in setting up a retropie.
Which one did you get?
I'm also interested in setting up a retropie.
Ordered an Raspberry Pi kit off Amazon today along with a Bluetooth SNES controller. Oh well, missed opportunities everywhere Nintendo.
Yep. I finally got around to setting of Retroarch on my PC and have no interest in an NEE classic now. Nor an SNES or N64 classic.
I have a NES Classic and will get a SNES Classic if Nintendo ever releases one. As convenient as emulators are with setups like the Retropie, I'm still interested in having something made by Nintendo.
Its 2017 and holiday season is over.
Can we walk to any store and pick one off the shelf that's collecting dust now?
Yep. I finally got around to setting of Retroarch on my PC and have no interest in an NEE classic now. Nor an SNES or N64 classic.
Its 2017 and holiday season is over.
Can we walk to any store and pick one off the shelf that's collecting dust now?
I as very happy they didn't include one, saves people who already have one (or two like I did) from paying extra for something that will just stay in the box.
Friend at work tried to get the mini NES. Never could find it. Said fuck it I'm going to get the switch instead. Gave him a fist bump.
Nintendo still hasn't sorted their shit out?
I'm lucky I preordered and actually received mine. Hell, even that was a hassle. I preordered it the second it went live only to get shafted and they gave them to people who preordered like, weeks later. After much complaining, they found one elsewhere in Europe and sent it to me.
Nintendo really needs to sort their shit. At this point, it's not even funny. It should not be this hard to manufacturer and sell these when demand is so high and the system seems relatively cheap and easy to mass produce.