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[KingBroly]

Hopefully the NES emulation is better than Wii U's. I also wonder if you will be able to download additional games and maybe that is why Castlevania III and the other Megaman, Ninja Gaiden, and Double Dragon games aren't on there.

Definite day 1 purchase, though!

It'd be great if it did AND if it tied it to your My Nintendo account so you could use it on other devices.

 

[ChryZ]

... so that's the NX? *ducks*

 

[Sorcerer]

It's cool to see something like this from Nintendo.

I just wish it actually had a cart slot so I'd have more of a reason to pick one up. (Though yes, I understand why that's a little ridiculous to hope for and it won't happen.)

I'll grab one of those NES CC's though probably.

Nintendo gains nothing from a cart slot and it just adds to their expense. It will never happen.

 

[Gaspard]

That's a really good price for a VC box and 30 games

 

[Vinc]

I wish the controller was wireless. Then I'd get this for sure.

 

[SinCityAssassin]

... so that's the NX? *ducks*

We've made the joke a dozen times already.

 

[Rymuth]

I want this.
I need this!

 

[friskykillface]

Should have the following games on it

Zombie nation
Snow brothers
Flinstones surprise at dinosaur peak
Wayne's world

Make the resellers X collectors start to sweat

 

[Conrad Link]

Love the branding/box art etc, looove!

 

[Anth0ny]

Well that's fucking awesome

And the boxes are perfect

This is an easy day one buy. Always wanted something like this, an easy way for people to play a bunch of Nintendo classics.

Hopefully they do SNES and N64 soon, too.

 

[Reckless Onion]

So can you get other games on there or just the 30?

 

[Dark Cloud]

Nintendo Entertainment System X with F-Zero NX, 1080NX, Wave Race NX and Excite Bike/Truck NX as pack-ins.

Radical.

Don't be surprised if it's actually called something like that lol

 

[Crayolan]

I'm interested in (and don't already own in some form) around 10 or so of those games. Nintendo prices NES games at $5 a pop, so I'd be paying $60 for $50 of what I care about. Really tempting. Novelty factor+the controller might push it over the edge for me.

If it can take actual NES carts it's a definite purchase.

 

[Englebert3rd]

Definitely getting this one!

 

[Chopper]

That is cool. I don't suppose that controller is wireless, is it?

 

[Duggie_Brown]

This is just pure nostalgic magic. I'll be all over this.

 

[Jonneh3003]

It really would be outstanding if theres some way to get more NES games from the eshop. I doubt it has any Internet connectivity though.

 

[dragonyeuw]

Hopefully they do SNES and N64 soon, too.

Considering how beloved the SNES is, I can't see how that's not an eventuality.

 

[oti]

WE WILL HAVE NES CONSOLES UNDER OUR CHRISTMAS TREES GOD DAMNIT NINTENDO

 

[cookie-monster]

Final Fantasy and no mains adapter makes me think they're shipping the exact same device worldwide. 60hz seems likely.

 

[mrklaw]

and to think I wasn't sure how Nintendo would get us to pay for VC games *again*.


Don't care about this as I never had a NES but I would pay twice the amount for a SNES version with a similarly decent list of games

Also a B&W tiny gameboy version, and/or a GBA

 

[friskykillface]

Don't be surprised if it's actually called something like that lol

Nintendo NEX

NX was just missing the E all along
Next
Entertainment
Experience

NES mini will get people familiar with the letters

 

[ZeroMaverick]

Considering how beloved the SNES is, I can't see how that's not an eventuality.

It's Nintendo we're talking about

 

[Incendiary]

At the $60 price point, that's $2 a game.

....damn it, Nintendo, you got me. I want one.

 

[Stitch]

I wonder if they will release a Mini Famicom in Japan.

 

[Ansatz]

What the fuck, $60 for the machine, an official NES controller and 30 games??

Please have good emulation and sell additional game packs.

 

[Eliseo]

Well that's fucking awesome

And the boxes are perfect

This is an easy day one buy. Always wanted something like this, an easy way for people to play a bunch of Nintendo classics.

Hopefully they do SNES and N64 soon, too.

But if they do N64 We won't have the banjos, golden eye and conker =(

 

[KingBroly]

Final Fantasy and no mains adapter makes me think they're shipping the exact same device worldwide. 60hz seems likely.

It's USB powered, so most if not all HDTV's can power it. I know mine can

 

[Square Triangle]

Can't compete in 2016, so let's take it back to 1986!

 

[deoee]

Snes please?

 

[Ban Puncher]

 

[Weebos]

Unexpected, but an interesting idea. I hope they keep going with it.

I know I'd be interested in the SNES, 64, and Gamecube.

 

[Javier]

I just noticed. This is Nintendo's first region-free console!

 

[dragonyeuw]

It's Nintendo we're talking about

But considering they came up with this idea, it does give hope.

 

[stan423321]

This is pretty shrewd of them. You know how the Wii U doesn't have a lot of VC games, probably because VC was only licensed to appear on Wii hardware/OS and companies never got back on board? I bet this is simply Wii hardware rebranded, and it's just a VC bundle that third parties have no power to interfere with. That's why there are so many good third party games there like Final Fantasy.

Also by branding it as a classic NES instead of something Wii-related, they skipped the bad press on that. "Ugh, did we really need an even more limited Wii Mini?"

You have no idea how these deals work. Of course third parties had "power to interfere with it", it doesn't even have the Wii branding - which apparently caused problems with goddamn PS Vita.

Third parties are on board because they smell the money in that and not in Wii U, especially after the failure of Wii U AND relative failure of Wii Shop Channel.

 

[poodaddy]

I need some closure on why I'm so excited about this. I have all those games already, yet I really want this, like weirdly bad. If they do something like this for the SNES Ill shit myself uncontrollably for days, possibly weeks, from a sheer overload of intolerable glee.

 

[thefro]

Final Fantasy and no mains adapter makes me think they're shipping the exact same device worldwide. 60hz seems likely.

NA version has an AC Adapter, Europe doesn't.

 

[TheDinoman]

Hopefully they do SNES and N64 soon, too.

I'd kinda hate to see an N64 collection without Rare's games, honestly. They were basically the backbone of the N64 library. Just wouldn't be the same without Banjo and especially Goldeneye 007, which is considered one of the system's key titles.

Unless they could work something out with Microsoft...

 

[TheFuzz]

Lord help us if they do an SNES like this. I love my NES but the top 30 SNES games on a console like this.... Whew.

 

[Tobor]

I've been begging for this for years. It's amazing they finally got around to it.

Missed opportunity though. Adding in wifi and some storage would allow them to sell more classic games.

Still cool though. Day one.

 

[amdb00mer]

this was just announced and there are 4 months until release...I really believe you need to wait and see if there will be any additional features. Except the use of cartridges, those are lost of course,

Well, judging by the box pictured in the info released today and the controller, it appears this is exactly as I described. I don't think any of these features will be added as this thing is probably already in production. But hey, it has HDMI, so....

 

[Jim_Cacher]

Don't be surprised if it's actually called something like that lol

And I would be totally ok with it.

 

[Chairhome]

I'm interested in (and don't already own in some form) around 10 or so of those games. Nintendo prices NES games at $5 a pop, so I'd be paying $60 for $50 of what I care about. Really tempting. Novelty factor+the controller might push it over the edge for me.

If it can take actual NES carts it's a definite purchase.

Nope, look at the scale of it. It's much smaller, so it won't accept carts

That is cool. I don't suppose that controller is wireless, is it?

Its an extension for a wii remote. So plug it into the system, or into a wii remote. Willing to bet that you'll be able to sync a wii controller to it though

 

[Zakkath]

Can we use our original cartridges on it ?

 

[KingBroly]

NA version has an AC Adapter, Europe doesn't.

It's still USB powered, though.

 

[random25]

So we'll have a repeat of this this holidays?

https://youtu.be/pFlcqWQVVuU

 

[entremet]

The only problem is that Wii controller cords are short!

 

[SinCityAssassin]

I like how many people say they should add a cartridge slot when the console isn't as wide as an actual NES cartridge.

 

[Morts]

I wish it was a SNES, and I'm out of HDMI ports, but I'll probably buy this.

 

[the androgyne]

Don't want to be that guy... But if they wanted to make these with a chip from a newer machine, it's probably from a Wii U, gotta clear that inventory somehow!

Seriously though, being one step closer to having a nice new N64 controller is good news in my books .. I wanted one ever since they showed a bunch to Edge magazine i think, before Wii the came out.