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Nintendo Warns It Won't Make More Retro NES and SNES Consoles (engadget.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the end-of-the-road dept.

Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime warned that the NES Classic and SNES Classic will sell in the Americas through the holidays, but will be "gone" once they sell out. Engadget reports: If you want to walk down memory lane after that, you'll have to take advantage of the games that come with Switch Online. You might also want to tamp down your hopes for a Nintendo 64 Classic. Fils-Aime added that the existing systems are the "extent of our classic program." That wouldn't be completely surprising given that the N64 was considerably more complex than its predecessor. The executive likewise ruled out additional games for the mini NES and SNES models.

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  1. Look Profit in the Eye and Walk Away by BrendaEM · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Fools! It might be terrible to the ego to admit that Nintendo's old games are better than the new ones.

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  2. It's just a way to ramp up demand. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Announce that the mini-consoles will only be sold through Christmas, inflate demand. Wait 5 months then re-release them in "limited quantities" rinse and repeat next xmas.

  3. But that's OK... by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We've had emulators since forever after all.

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  4. If only there was some way by bobstreo · · Score: 2

    to download the ROMS and emulate the NES/Super systems in software. /s

    It's not like Nintenblo is making any new games for them. Or translating any Japanese Language games into English.

  5. Cool, so back to emulators. by skam240 · · Score: 2

    Cool, so back to emulators.

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