Nintendo Discontinues NES Classic Edition, Final Shipments Coming This Month

[heirdeux]

Be ready to set up camp outside your local retail store if you want to get the last of these systems.

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[bloodroses]

Are you kidding? That really sucks. I guess no classic edition for me.

At least there's still the DIY method with a raspberry pi and a 3d printed (or etsy) NES clone case.

I wonder if they're going to do the same with the NES controllers since they're usable on the Wii, WiiU, and Switch?

 

[Mike Shawaluk]

"Throughout April, NOA territories will receive the last shipments of Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition systems for this year." Perhaps it is not being discontinued after all?

 

[Jake Hall]

Pfff... doesn't surprise me. Emulators are the better way to go, anyway

 

[dstarr3]

This was clearly just a way to clear warehouses of old parts. They've made all the units they can make, now they're done.

 

[bloodroses]

Pfff... doesn't surprise me. Emulators are the better way to go, anyway

The NES Classic edition is an emulator, just designed to only handle 20 ROMs with a nice front end. Hackers have been able to improve that though.

 

[Adm1ra1P]

Let the price gouging ensue.... now.

 

[Xellios]

In other news, Nintendo just unofficially condoned the use of Emulators and ROMS

 

[IndignantSkeptic]

I swear, it's like Nintendo hates money.

 

[tsnor]

... or they have a replacement that is better and they are clearing out the prior generation.

 

[NowJoJo]

That's just stupid. How am I supposed to buy one now??!

 

[IndignantSkeptic]

Actually, I think it was discontinued because hackers soon modified it into what everyone initially expected it to be; a new machine that can play every NES game in existence. However, because hackers implemented this instead of Nintendo, the entire library of NES games, became completely free on it. That must have angered Nintendo's software partners who probably asked Nintendo to shut-down the whole project for helping to make piracy, of these games, much more convenient.

I suppose that if Nintendo had just designed the thing as we all had initially expected, they might have been able to prevent the widespread piracy. However, I don't really know how much that would have affected the price of the device.

 

[NowJoJo]

When should stores have the last stock??????

 

[Bloob]

The goal of the device was probably just to get attention to old games in the first place, and now that Nintendo is (again) releasing their own emulator service for those games, the console can be shut down as it has already achieved its purpose.

 

[MeeLee]

If you didn't know already, this news is old.
Gamers have hoarded the platform, bought thousands of them, and are selling for 2-3x the upsale price.

 

[MeeLee]

They should have sold the Super Nintendo version.
With 50 of it's most popular games, at the size of a wallet or smaller.

 

[ksharp25]

/q BLOODROSES

That 20 title is arbitrary. This unit is completely and safely hack able, and you can flash write every ROM ever made on this bad boy.

 

[anonymousdude]

Let's be honest here, the switch VC coming out combined with piracy on the classic is probably what killed it. They can't make developers mad with piracy and they don't want to cannibalize VC sales.

 

[iam2thecrowe]

If it's selling like hotcakes, why would you discontinue it? Nintendo has some strange ways of doing business.

 

[Tech_TTT]

Pfff... doesn't surprise me. Emulators are the better way to go, anyway

The NES Classic edition is an emulator, just designed to only handle 20 ROMs with a nice front end. Hackers have been able to improve that though.

no need , get any used NES from the market . and use SD card Cartridge and you can put all the Roms in just cheap 4G SD card.

LINK : http://retrorgb.com/romcarts.html

 

[cletus_slackjawd]

Modded Wii with home brew cheaper option

 

[boju]

Sega brought out a console of their own soon after, wonder how that went

 

[bloodroses]

/q BLOODROSES

That 20 title is arbitrary. This unit is completely and safely hack able, and you can flash write every ROM ever made on this bad boy.

Thus the 'Hackers have been able to improve that though.' comment.

 

[bloodroses]

On Ebay, the starting price is now $200 and the average is closer to $350-400... damn Nintendo ***holes ruining things for everyone but scalpers.