Current Events > NES Classic discontinued because we dont have unlimited resources

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“From our perspective, it’s important to recognize where our future is and the key areas that we need to drive,” said Reggie Fils-Aime, president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America, in an interview with Time. “We’ve got a lot going on right now and we don’t have unlimited resources.”

“We just didn’t anticipate how incredible the response would be,” said Fils-Aime, apologizing for the product shortages. He added that Nintendo ramped up production and extended it into 2017, but the company was still never able to meet the intense demand for the NES Classic. All the way up until the discontinuation announcement earlier this month — and certainly since then — stores sold through their small shipments as soon as they got them from Nintendo.

Fils-Aime said that Nintendo has now shipped 2.3 million units of the NES Classic worldwide. The company last gave official numbers at the beginning of February, when it said the system had hit a sell-through total of 1.5 million consoles. At the time, Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima noted that while “some parts require time to procure,” the company was “working to increase production” of the NES Classic.

http://www.polygon.com/2017/4/28/15474358/nes-classic-discontinued-why-nintendo

I'm guessing their putting more of their resource into their 3ds lineup, hence why we're getting the 2ds XL.
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the multi-million dollar company that can't make more than 500 emulators for a 30 year old console
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Holy crap the world ran out of plastic from manufacturing NES minis?!
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still can't figure out why people thought this would be anything other than a super limited run
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DevsBro posted...

Holy crap the world ran out of plastic from manufacturing NES minis?!

In all fairness, they did make like 10 of them.

Lightsasori posted...

I'm guessing their putting more of their resource into their 3ds lineup, hence why we're getting the 2ds XL.

In otherwords, Nintendo didn't make nearly enough money off each NES classic sold to keep making them. Nintendo stumbled into success with the NES classic, I agree it was meant as a stop gap item for the holidays because the Switch wasn't ready.

They've now seen what a phenomenon it became and realized they priced it too low. Even at an MSRP of $99 the thing still would have sold great (if not completely cleared out by scalpers) and even if the sales were lower, Nintendo would be laughing all the way to the bank with higher margins.

They're killing the NES, gonna make an SNES classic at a higher price point and make a killing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svFqnuYFYNM
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Butterfiles posted...

still can't figure out why people thought this would be anything other than a super limited run

Because they never once said it would be a limited run until they announced it's discontinuation. Whether or not you care about the NES classic that's what happened.