SNES Mini Announcement

space cadet

Imo nintendo has lost a lot of fans these last couple years. I haven't been happy with them since the gamecube. Marketing for money!

Riverstorm

@space-cadet said in SNES Mini Announcement:

Marketing for money!

Such a fine line between maximizing profit as business and alienating your customer base. :) It would have been nice for them to take pre-orders to gauge demand and have sufficient supply to meet that demand. Instead they will be standing in some department store line with the local news interviewing while holding up the mini console talking about what brought out all these people out on this cold dark night.

For some reason they seem to value the idea of it being rare, expensive and hard to obtain. Like someone said earlier I would be curious the percentage that gets snatched up only to resell them at an exponential price point knowing it's a limited run of 3 months.

If sales are any indicator of declining popularity over the past 5 years then for sure they are loosing. I believe the NES was the best selling console and the Wii was close to being the worst.

backstander

@Riverstorm

I believe the NES was the best selling console and the Wii was close to being the worst.

The DS (not including the 3DS) is the most sold and the Wii U is the least sold. I think the Wii outsold the NES by about 20 million.

A Former User

I've lost track of how many times I've heard people writing Nintendo off. It's quite funny to watch since it has absolutely no relation to the real world, for example, regarding Wii sales : "As of March 31, 2015, the Wii has sold 101.52 million consoles worldwide". Make of it what you wish :)

Sure, they make some questionable moves - or moves that look questionable to Western people - and of course since PS/XBOX appeared on the scene there always was huge negative hype from fans of these consoles. The pre-Zelda/Switch hate is the best example - and yet it sells like hot cakes, normal people just don't really care about N4G/forum ragers.

For the record, I'm not a typical faNboy, never had NES/SNES, love Zelda but don't care much for Mario, etc. But facts are facts - they're doing just fine. The Mini-craze is just a skillfully played gambit and who can really blame them?

backstander

I always wonder how accurate these charts are but I thought this was interesting!

The Wii out sold both Xbox 360 and PS3!

Also I would have figured the Atari 2600 was 1st gen!

Riverstorm

@backstander said in SNES Mini Announcement:

The DS (not including the 3DS) is the most sold and the Wii U is the least sold. I think the Wii outsold the NES by about 20 million.

I was excluding handhelds but I stand corrected on the NES sales. Interesting info.

@arkive said in SNES Mini Announcement:

I've lost track of how many times I've heard people writing Nintendo off.

Not sure if that came across negative but I am neither that far left or right. Maybe slightly cynical ;) but I enjoy all points of view and don't loose sleep over it. I'm sure N's bottom line is operating in the black all other objectives being secondary.

mediamogul

@arkive

Sure, they make some questionable moves - or moves that look questionable to Western people

That's a key factor to be sure. They're certainly not afraid to keep things weird and more often than not, those strange gambits pay off big time. Despite what you tend to hear from the likes of Statler and Waldorf, Nintendo's doing very well for themselves. Two days ago their market value surpassed Sony's and Nintendo of Japan actually has enough operating capital to hypothetically keep the company afloat for close to ten years with no income.

mediamogul

@Riverstorm

I didn't recognize you with the new avatar. It's been a while. How's tricks?

Riverstorm

@backstander said in SNES Mini Announcement:

Also I would have figured the Atari 2600 was 1st gen!

Hmmm..1st gen consoles are those obscure devices that probably weren't massed produced and didn't make it as a household item?

mediamogul

The dedicated PONG consoles are good examples of first generation successes.

hooperre

@backstander said in SNES Mini Announcement:

I always wonder how accurate these charts are but I thought this was interesting!

The Wii out sold both Xbox 360 and PS3!

Also I would have figured the Atari 2600 was 1st gen!

This chart is awesome. Wonder how PS4 and XBox One sold. With the Wii owning so much of the 7th gen market, I wonder if there was even any uptick in sales after approx 40 years of video game console user growth.

Riverstorm

@mediamogul said in SNES Mini Announcement:

The dedicated PONG consoles are good examples of first generation successes.

Classic. Congrats on Global Moderator. It's well deserved for such a well spoken refined sir! ;)

A Former User

@Riverstorm He was that a few weeks ago.

backstander

@Riverstorm

Classic. Congrats on Global Moderator. It's well deserved for such a well spoken refined sir! ;)

Well put and I bet that comes with a pay raise! ;-)

At least we wish the RetroPie devs did!

mediamogul

@Riverstorm

Thank you! I mostly just clean out the language filter, but sometimes I get to run the siren.

backstander

@mediamogul

I mostly just clean out the language filter

I see...

mediamogul

@backstander

I lose more wristbands that way. I'm advocating for a swear jar.

lilbud

@mediamogul If I had to pay everytime I swore, I'd be so damn broke.

Damnit I swore: takes out 2 dollars

Riverstorm

@mediamogul said in SNES Mini Announcement:

@Riverstorm

Thank you! I mostly just clean out the language filter, but sometimes I get to run the siren.

lol...there's that sense of humor I've grown so fond of! The good thing about the pay scale is you don't have to worry to much about your performance reviews.

Hex

@lilbud This is how I view Nintendo's efforts on these forums

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