We had two stories submitted via IRC about the return of the NES Classic Edition from Nintendo:
Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd
Nintendo has announced the date for its re-release of its re-release of the NES, the NES Classic Edition. The console, which sold out immediately upon its debut in November 2016, will return to...
Mentioning this for those that wanted one but didn't snag one last time they were available. SuperNES too, and both expected to be available until the end of the year. List of built-in NES games included in link.
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/13/17350686/nintendo-nes-classic-mini-re-release-date
Submitted via IRC for SoyCow0245
Nintendo expects stock "through the end of the year" after June 29 relaunch.
After plans for a summer re-launch were announced last September, the NES Classic Edition will be available once again starting on June 29 in both North America and Europe, Nintendo announced via Twitter last night. While the plug-and-play hardware saw widespread shortages during a limited production run from late 2016 through early 2017, Nintendo now says that both the NES and Super NES Classic Edition systems "are expected to be available through the end of the year."
After the NES Classic sold more than 2.3 million units in just under six months, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime admitted in an interview with Gamespot that there was a "marketplace disconnect" between Nintendo's expectations and the demand for the self-contained system, which contains 30 NES games for a $60 MSRP. He added to Time magazine, "We've got a lot going on right now and we don't have unlimited resources."
Since then, it seems the company may have learned how to commit sufficient resources to the popular line of nostalgic hardware. Fils-Aime promised "dramatically increased" production for the Super NES Classic back in September and has since then sold nearly 5.3 million units in about six months, avoiding the shortages and secondhand markup that plagued the NES Classic's initial launch.
Source: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/05/miss-out-on-the-nes-classic-itll-be-back-in-stores-soon/
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(Score: 2) by jasassin on Tuesday May 15 2018, @10:20PM (6 children)
Snes9x or SNES are great SNES emulators. With a wired Xbox controller they are awesome. Plus, you can save state anytime, so you don't need to play until you reach a save spot. The cheat.DAT you can find is like game geenie on steroids. I guess most people don't know about Nintendo emulators.
The Xbox controllers are kinda spendy though.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by jmorris on Tuesday May 15 2018, @10:28PM
These things ARE emulators. Just dedicated devices packed in a box with controllers. Last time people quickly figured out how to hack their way to the bog standard Linux/Arm machine within and add functionality. Will be interesting to see if Nintendo closes the door on that or decides they don't care what people do with the thing once they have their money.
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Tuesday May 15 2018, @11:24PM (3 children)
Oblig: https://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/spend-80-snes-classic-can-install-emulators-raspberry-pi-never-shut-fuck/ [thehardtimes.net]
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday May 16 2018, @01:54AM (2 children)
Nah Ima play it on my Switch:
http://www.gamerevolution.com/news/388571-youtuber-hacks-snes-virtual-console-onto-switch [gamerevolution.com]
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(Score: 2) by jasassin on Wednesday May 16 2018, @02:37AM
I play more SNES on my Wii than Wii games. :)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16 2018, @01:30PM
Why pay $15 per games that are decades old when you can play them on your PC for free?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16 2018, @03:46PM
they have nitendoesque controllers on ebay for $20-30 that work out of the box with linox.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @10:39PM
Sometimes a man's gotta download what a man's gotta download.
(Score: 2) by goodie on Tuesday May 15 2018, @11:59PM (1 child)
Honestly, when the NES and SNES classic came out, they were sold instantly and I was ok with that, nostalgy etc. Then NoA said they would have more shipments of the SNES classic because they had learned their mistake with the success of the NES. Nothing happened. Shortages remained. Now they are promising that they will actually do it. Too f$cking too bad, I'm not buying it. Not interested anymore. Whatever nostalgia I had attached to it is gone so I will be back onto my emulators now, thank you very much.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16 2018, @02:27PM
Pretty much. I learned my lesson from the NES classic and didn't even bother to look for the SNES classic when it was released. I have better things to do with my time than run around looking for something that's that massively underproduced.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16 2018, @07:40AM (1 child)
Excuse me while I grab my pearls! What kind of "Ready Player One" retro crap is this, and why does it find it's way onto the front page of SoylentNews? Yes, some of us may be gamers, but not that kind of suck-up, totally dependent, gamers. What are you thinking, eds? Oh, really? That, huh? Nevermind.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16 2018, @01:50PM
What? Do you want more gay politics circlejerking stories instead?