Current Events > was that nes mini competing with all these emulators you can find on ebay?

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Roxborough4Ever
04/14/17 12:40:26 PM
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While looking for a NES mini, i've seen tons of these emulators that are basically raspberry pi boxes loaded with "every game" that are selling anywhere between 60-100 bucks....they are 3d printed and of course while they dont look the same..they seem to do the job really well.

Was Nintendo worried about these? Surely they need to know they exist.
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green butter
04/14/17 12:44:37 PM
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nintendo has a very diehard segment of their fanbase that will buy the same games over and over and over again, even though emulators have been around for decades and they've already bought this game. it's why people lose their shit every time nintendo announces some classic SNES game for their virtual console, even though they probably bought that game 4 or 5 times. it's nuts
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Butterfiles
04/14/17 12:46:37 PM
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They must not have been if they were selling something that didn't even have access to the full goddamn library
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KillerSlaw
04/14/17 12:49:11 PM
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No, because Nintendo already discontinued the thing.
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Roxborough4Ever
04/14/17 1:10:06 PM
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KillerSlaw posted...
No, because Nintendo already discontinued the thing.


because they couldn't keep up the demand (physically or software wise) and got beat out by ebay sellers in the developing world
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Ultima Dragon
04/14/17 1:17:15 PM
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Do you have any links or keywords to search for? Are you allowed to share those?

I know about the Raspberry Pi for example, but I'm not sure I can be assed to buy all the components and figure it out when I can just get one pre-made for nearly the same price.
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Roxborough4Ever
04/14/17 1:43:02 PM
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