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In yet another example that nostalgia is one hell of a drug, the newly released $60 dollar Famicom Classic Mini (the Japanese version of the NES Classic) has managed to sell like hot cakes in Nintendo's native country of Japan.
According to a report by MCV based on sales figures provided by Japanese games website Famitsu, the tiny NES Classic Mini has sold over 263k units in its first 4 days on store shelves. The little machine has a host of classic NES games installed on its hard drive and is sure to be a blast from the past for everyone who grew up in the early-to-mid-90s.
[...] The NES Classic Mini launched in Western territories on November 11 and has since gone on to sell out in many stores thanks to Nintendo's limited supply, which has led to third party sellers increasing the price of the device as the consumer demand for the console remains higher than the current supply.
Source: TechRaptor
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @04:27AM
It is just a nostalgia grab. Hell I considered getting one. But then came to my senses and could just go get my old NES out and play THAT. The games I would care about would be sitting in the same box with the NES.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @05:37AM
In a weird way it comes down to relaunching classic consoles... with the main attraction being an... HDMI port.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @06:33AM
Pretty much. The TV I own has HDMI AND RCA. For this TV HDMI introduces about 20 frames of latency. Just enough to mess me up on most twitchy games. I know this because I bought a decent NUC to play emulated games. Can not play them on the screen. Get out the old NES and the RCA cable? No probs. Play on my laptop with the same emu? No probs. Turned off as much post processing on the TV to get it 'ok'. But still slightly off. So as long as I own this TV I will not be buying something like this.
I give it a month before someone figures out to dump the roms and put in their own. Then a couple more months before you can swap with a USB or SD card if you have a bit of soldering skills. Then you will be able to buy them from china with all 1500 games already prepackaged or a built in USB port.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @05:37PM
Already happened. Here is the public progress, but they are even farther behind the scenes in some places, including access to the file systems and controlling it through the USB port: https://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/5cgbkm/linux_on_nes_classic_mini_current_progress_and/ [reddit.com]