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NES Classic And SNES Classic May Be Retired In 2019

NES Classic And SNES Classic May Be Retired In 2019

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Got your NES Classic and SNES Classic yet? Now that they’re plentiful and easy to find, better get on it — because it won’e be that way forever. A new interview with Reggie Fils-Aime conducted by THR suggests the company may be planning to take them off the market in 2019, this time for good. While he was at it, Reggie confirmed they weren’t continuing the line with an N64 Classic or anything beyond, which he’s stated before. We worked very hard, both for the NES Classic and the SNES Classic, to really have the best games that defined that generation. We’ve said that the current systems are the extent of our classic program. We’ve also been clear that, at least from an Americas perspective, these products are going to be available through the holiday season and once they sell out, they’re gone. And that’s it. Something else Reggie suggested previously was that Nintendo Switch Online is intended to be the company focus for satisfying the retro market, and he

NES Classic Returns To Stores June 29

NES Classic Returns To Stores June 29

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Back when Nintendo was blindsided by the success of the NES and SNES Classic Editions, they announced that not only would the SNES Classic stay in production but the NES Classic would make a return that summer. We’re now very close to “that summer” and we should be hearing the specific date right about…..now. Yup, June 29. If you have to choose between them, the SNES library has held up better over time, but the NES was no slouch. It had a disproportionate library of shovelware due to capturing over 80% of the market in its day, but much of its golden material is included within this miniaturized version. 30 games in all: Balloon Fight™ BUBBLE BOBBLE Castlevania™ Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest™ Donkey Kong™ Donkey Kong Jr. ™ DOUBLE DRAGON II: THE REVENGE Dr. Mario™ Excitebike™ FINAL FANTASY® Galaga™ GHOSTS’N GOBLINS® GRADIUS™ Ice Climber™ Kid Icarus™ Kirby’s Adventure™ Mario Bros. ™ MEGA MAN® 2 Metroid™ NINJA GAIDEN PAC-MAN™ Punch-Out!! ™ Featuring Mr. Dream StarTropics™ SUPER C™ Super Mario Bros.™ Super

Barely Anyone At Nintendo Thought The NES Classic Would Succeed

Barely Anyone At Nintendo Thought The NES Classic Would Succeed

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According to a new interview in last week’s Famitsu (translated by Nintendo Everything), barely anyone at Nintendo’s Japanese HQ thought making a miniature “classic” edition of their earliest console was a good idea. Only the manager of their sales department (who is only identified in the article as “Yomato”) had a passion for the plan. At the time, the majority of the company’s staff was deeply invested in finishing the Switch for release. Yomato continued to press the higher-ups, insisting the NES Classic “would make fans happy” and requesting an ad budget. While he was granted some money for promotion, it wasn’t enough to air television ads, and it turned out not to matter when shortages made purchasing the item impossible. They were warned about the possibility of a shortage prior to release. Takao Shimizu, who works at Nintendo’s planning and development department, “strongly suggested that there would be stock shortages.” At the point he said it, however, Nintendo had already decided how many units they were making available at

Inside The SNES Classic Rests…An NES Classic

Inside The SNES Classic Rests…An NES Classic

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Today, September 29, is the day the SNES Classic was released, and unlike other unmentionable “brand X” websites, we aren’t going to preface this news story with the assumption that you found one. As this weary reporter knows all too well the pain of getting up at an ungodly hour, racing to Target, and finding all 70 of their shipped units vanished in seconds, I share your pity. Nintendo has vowed to ship “significantly more” SNES Classic machines than they did NES Classics, as well as reprint the NES Classic sometime next year. Wondering how they can bring it back so fast? It most likely has to do with what Eurogamer found when they screwed open the complimentary prerelease SNES Classic Nintendo sent them. Inside was a circuit board identical to the NES Classic’s. The only difference was what was loaded on the ROM. “The fact that the SNES mini runs on the same hardware as its predecessor has a number of implications,” said Eurogamer, mentioning how switching from SNES

New Nintendo Trademarks Hint At An N64 Classic

New Nintendo Trademarks Hint At An N64 Classic

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Is it too early to be thinking about a possible Nintendo 64 Classic, given that no one can even buy the SNES Classic yet? Apparently not for Nintendo. Four symbols were registered with the European Union Intellectual Property Office on July 18, and unearthed by NeoGAF users. One is a Switch, one is an NES controller, one is a Super NES controller, and one is an N64 controller. Since Nintendo didn’t register symbols representing ALL the controllers from their history, and two products using NES and SNES controllers are prominent in their recent history….hmm, y’know? HMM. If Nintendo’s current schedule holds to its predictable pattern, we wouldn’t see an N64 Classic until at least the fall of 2018. The real issue is what they would put on it. Half the memorable games in the N64 library came from Rare, a studio that now belongs to Microsoft, not Nintendo. If you somehow become lucky enough to buy one of these mini-consoles, the factory-installed games within are all good picks that most

The NES Classic Hack Now Allows For All 700+ Games

The NES Classic Hack Now Allows For All 700+ Games

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Shortly after the release of the NES Classic, hackers found a way to alter the code of the device to accept more than just the 30 games that came with it. The hack was primitive at first, but eventually a way was found to store as many as 80 games on the Classic. The ultimate goal was to find a way to store every game, but the problem was, there was a wall that prevented this from happening: the fact that the Classic’s internal storage had a limit of 300 MB. But after months of experimentation, it looks like the hack has now achieved the 700-plus games goal. What made it possible was the newly-added ability to use zipped files, and the much-needed use of a folder system. Cluster, the author of the patch known as Hakchi, says this newest update is the most intuitive one to use yet. He’s even added a Turbo Button feature that works via the X and Y buttons on the Wii Classic Controller (there’s