God, I miss cartridges

[SaurusX]

You can buy an excellent condition SNES (good as new) with all connections for $45 on either Amazon or ebay. At that price and with there being no shortage of units I can't see how it would be worth Nintendo's time.

 

[exdeath]

Okay, so what I am curious about is...

If Nintendo put the SNES back on retail shelves, for cheap, and sold it as a nostalgia play--

would it sell? would it sell well?

That would be pretty cool. If you could buy a SNES for like $80, and games were like $20.

I'd be all for it. Totally fk over resellers and $300+ CIB games. I wouldn't even care about CIB games I already have being devalued, I'm more interested in having all 722 games without spending 10s of thousands.

 

[Rakehellion]

Okay, so what I am curious about is...

If Nintendo put the SNES back on retail shelves, for cheap, and sold it as a nostalgia play--

would it sell? would it sell well?

That would be pretty cool. If you could buy a SNES for like $80, and games were like $20.

Nope. it wouldn't sell. There aren't enough 90's kids and hipsters to make that a viable prospect.

What Nintendo would do is remake every Mario and Zelda game for their current consoles. That would be a lot less risky and with higher margins.

 

[Soundmanred]

They already sell Sega Genesis consoles like this with multiple games. No exactly flying off the shelves.

 

[alkemyst]

Nope. it wouldn't sell. There aren't enough 90's kids and hipsters to make that a viable prospect.

What Nintendo would do is remake every Mario and Zelda game for their current consoles. That would be a lot less risky and with higher margins.

I don't care about hipsters, I actually rarely hear that word; however, you bring them up in many posts.

Also these 90's kids take too much credit for what the 80's ones started (those born around -10 years from what the 'kids' are labeled).

I think would should be should.

Probably just a typo since those two keys are adjacent...thinking wood could be bad in some conversations, but I digress.

In reality, most out there are probably doing emulators if they are that deep into these games even if it's illegal.

One of the few games I still keep is Taipan from the Apple ][ days (I had a //e in 1983 or so). Great game for sitting at an airport waiting for your flight when everything else is dead.

 

[Rakehellion]

I think would should be should.

By would, I mean has and will continue to do so.

 

[HeXen]

The Atari Flashbacks sell well enough, their on the 4th one now. NeoGeo X sold pretty well too considering. If Nintendo made a small Snes with wireless pads and a virtual store to buy and download classic titles for reasonable prices it would likely be quite profitable for them. All kinds of retro products obviously profit well or they wouldn't keep making them.

 

[zerocool84]

The Atari Flashbacks sell well enough, their on the 4th one now. NeoGeo X sold pretty well too considering. If Nintendo made a small Snes with wireless pads and a virtual store to buy and download classic titles for reasonable prices it would likely be quite profitable for them. All kinds of retro products obviously profit well or they wouldn't keep making them.

Which is why they made the virtual console.