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I'm hoping Amazon, Best Buy or somebody gets some more by the end of the month, that they have another 30 minute or so window of being able to order. I'd still like to get my hands on one... but there's going to be a lot of people trying to scalp these now, and there's no way I'm paying hundreds of dollars for one. Stupid Nintendo! ![]()
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I don't know. How much does Nintendo make off each classic unit? $60 does not leave a lot of room for profit. At least not a lot per game sold compared to selling games for $5 each through an eStore. How much to manufacture and ship it to retailers? $15? How much does retailers make per unit? $10? How much does Nintendo have to pay 3rd party developers to use their games? 13 of the 30 games are 3rd party games. I can't imagine Capcom, Konomi, Square, etc would accept less than $2 per title. So, $26 per unit to 3rd party developers? $60 - $15 - $10 - $26 = $9 profit per unit I am just estimating these numbers without any real knowledge of typical profit margins but I can totally see Nintendo preferring to sell digital classics at $5 each. What Nintendo should have done was give it WiFi and the ability to connect to Virtual Console so more games could be purchased. |
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Yeah, I don't know how much they make off of each unit, but I think it's pretty clear they're missing out on millions of dollars in profit. There was a news article stating that they reported having sold 1.5 million units, worldwide, back in January. I think it's pretty safe to say they could have doubled that (easily) during the Holidays.
Imagine them having enough supply that these things were on cardboard kiosks near toy or electronic sections... or even up by the checkouts, during Christmas! I also wouldn't be surprised if the majority of buyers would be people who have no intention of buying more retro games from a Virtual Console... and may not even own a Wii U or now the Switch. Absolutely! I know a lot of people were really disappointed that type of feature was missing.
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...nah, there were plenty of SNES classics at that launch and the units are still not too difficult to find. I suspect the next wave of NES classics will be the same way.
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I was actually able to get an SNES classic a few weeks ago, when I happened to catch a Tweet by somebody I follow, saying they were available on GameStop's website. I've played a couple of the games, but I haven't done what needs to be done, to unlock Star Fox 2 yet. I might try it this weekend.
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Nintendo will be re-releasing the NES Classic June 29th. I hope they've been building up a huge stock since last year... but I doubt it.
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I was actually able to order an NES Classic last night. I actually sort of forgot about it, and was about to shut my computer down, but somebody I follow on Twitter had mentioned there was still some in-stock online. I got my order in and I've already gotten my shipping confirmation.
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