I kind of wonder how many are simply buying it as a show piece for their living room. With 20 games it feels like something that should be priced at 30-40bucks.

If you're actually into playing the games there's not much that matches OpenEmu's slick interface.

I am curious if the upcoming NES restock will be identical as the '16 release or if they'll improve a few things (like controller cable length or something).


By the way the N64 mini / classic will even have a worse library as the great Rare titles like Goldeneye, Banjo Kazooie, Diddy Kong Racing etc. will be missing due to licensing issues.

Got one when picking up my pre-order at Best Buy. The employee I talked to didn't tell me the exact number that they had (said he couldn't say unless he wanted to get yelled at), but I overheard from a person in line they handed out 57 tickets (so more than likely that many or more).

The Walmart that I got the NES Classic (they only had 5 of them) from last year had 16 SNES units for a midnight launch when I ran by there. So...it's an improvement compared to the NES launch, but not by much.

Apparently they did do pre-orders, but instead of fulfilling and shipping them on time they're just selling those reserved copies through their Treasure Truck service, pretty much delaying them until later (at least according to this guy) .

Both my friend and myself went to Bestbuy about 45min before they opened and got a 'ticket'. They had about 90 consoles and I was number 65. Played a few games with my roommate for the past few hours. Good times. Childhood relived. The games are are on the short side though. Some are pretty darn difficult with a good learning curve. A good mix of 2 player games, RPGs and the like.

The system is very well made. Controllers are perfect. HDMI is high end. I think the $80+tax was well worth it. Considering it has about 300mb of extra storage, you can 'hack it' and add in many, many more games. I'm satisfied. I grew up with up with the SNES. So it has a special place in my life.

Nintendo said they will be releasing more consoles every week until Christmas.. so who knows.

I'm good on this system. I love Nintendo, but no effort was made to curb scalping of this system today. I'm not going to reward that.

I just can't justify rewarding the retailers and Nintendo for this. Not when it's become a trophy item for collectors instead of a gaming throwback with good titles to play in HD.

Got mine from EB a few hours ago. I'm pretty happy with it, does exactly what's expected and is just plug and play. Controllers will also be handy for the Wii as well. After a few hours and a quick sample play of every game (except Star Fox 2) I've decided I'll be keeping it and play the most appealing games for now, and by that time the hacks will be out and I can install ROMs for all the games it's missing. Sure I can use my PC and Retro Arch, but it's not the same...something always just feels a bit different.

For the moment I'm hooked on F-Zero, but I can see Earth Bound as being something for the next week or so.

Yes, I was wrong on all the line. Nintendo couldn't possibly do the same thing the Analogue NT Mini did with hardware emulation if they wanted to sell their little toy at a popular price.

Are the devs who created these games getting any added income from this? I doubt it. It's your civic and moral duty to use emulators. Nintendo are scumbags.

Nintendo are the least scum-baggy of the 3 major console makers, fwiw. I had no problems trading in my PS4 and getting a Switch. Is it less powerful? Sure, but now I can take the console with me and play in the car, at work during lunch, etc. I couldn't do that with a PS4 unless I got a Vita, which doesn't have all the same games.

I do agree on using emulators, but not because of Nintendo - because of the scalpers. These people are going to hold onto their thousands of consoles and attempt to sell them for 200-300% or more of the MSRP. Nintendo released over 2 million consoles yesterday, and it still wasn't enough. They can't guarantee that scalpers can only buy one system.

I read through the thread on reddit and a ton of people got 2 or 3 systems with the extra ones being "gifts" - pretty shitty if you ask me. I highly doubt every single person buying multiple consoles was getting them as gifts, but it's not my life.

By the way, I use snes9x - is there one that's better? This one's pretty good, but I can't seem to get it to register diagonal arrows with my xbone controller.

Most of the games are the property of Nintendo themselves. Even if they were originally contacted to someone else, they were paid for their work long ago- the rights belong to Nintendo. The ones that maybe aren't are all by Square, Konami and CAPCOM...you really think they have done this without an agreement being in place or a legal contract or some type? No way.
And if you're meaning the people that were at the coalface typing in the programing, they had a job and were paid a wage like everyone else. The money goes to the rights holders, and I'm sure it is.

Hmmm, neither JB Hi-Fi or EB Games have it on their online stores. Is the only way to buy it going to be in physical stores?

Regardless of the emulator-or-not question, I think the bigger questíon should be what each of these games would have costed individually from the Virtual Console or any other digital distribution platform. In that regard, the price is "fair", if only because most games of that era are traditionally grossly overpriced on digital platforms.

$3.80 USD per game is pretty good value, not counting the cost of the console itself.

I use Znes. Pretty easy to set up.

Don't use ZSNES. The last release was over 10 years ago.

At least 9X gets the occasional update.