Nintendo Urges Public: Don’t Pay More Than $80 for SNES Classic

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  1. Durandal

    Durandal Well-Known Member Donor

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    I don't know how many here know or care about Nintendo's little retro emulation consoles, but I just saw this article and thought I'd share it FYI. They had a mess with their first one, the NES Classic, as supplies were very short; they apparently, and by their own admission, seriously underestimated demand for that one. They are promising a better situation with the SNES Classic.

    The main reason I share this is because I also want to say, don't pay the scalpers high prices for one. Don't encourage their greed. They snapped up NES Classics and began reselling them at highly inflated prices ($200+ vs the original price of $80).

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    At this point, last year’s NES Classic is best remembered as the cute, retro gadget no one could buy because Nintendo didn’t produce enough of them. In a new interview, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé swears this won’t be the case with the SNES Classic—and that pre-order screw-ups were not Nintendo’s fault.

    Fils-Aimé told the Financial Times that the short supply of the NES Classic were not an intentional move to create buzz. He claims that the production numbers were simply based on sluggish sales of rival retro-gaming machines. But those machines weren’t made by Nintendo.

    Despite retailing for $79.99, the NES Classic was going for upwards of $200 on eBay almost immediately. The Nintendo exec insists that they’ve planned to manufacture plenty of consoles this time around. “I would strongly urge you not to over-bid on an SNES Classic on any of the auction sites,” Fils-Aimé said. “You shouldn’t [have to] pay more than $79.99.”

    His comments follow several pre-order debacles at major retailers like Best Buy and Wal-Mart. But Fils-Aimé says that those issues were “outside our control,” implicitly moving the blame to the retailers. Reports of customers using a bot that could rapidly snap up the early pre-orders were also widespread.

    More here: http://gizmodo.com/nintendo-urges-public-don-t-pay-more-than-80-for-snes-1803138702
     
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    Nintendo should limit the number of SNES classics built. Let the scalpers get $500 for one. Otherwise the scalpers are going to loose money betting that the SNES is as rare as the NES was. And what if Nintendo releases them every year from now on??? Oh goodness!
     
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    *lose

    Not sure why anyone would want to help scalpers. But speaking of possible future releases, I heard that the N64 might be next.
     

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