RolStoppable said:
Because you are as stupid as Nintendo and can't properly judge the value of these classic games. If you believed that sales would only be driven by nostalgia, then yes, you'd be surprised that there's so much demand. But you didn't need to be alive 30 years ago in order to appreciate a Best of NES today, and at a small price at that. Nintendo lost out on a lot of money this past holiday season not only because of low shipments, they also lost out because they priced the system so low. They could have made this $99 and it would still have flown off the shelves. The good thing for Nintendo is that those NES games don't sell on hype, so the NES Classic can keep on selling. That at least limits the financial damage they did to themselves this past holiday season. Lastly, Nintendo's expectation that this bodes well for Switch is justified. The NES Classic is similar to their smartphone games, as in raising brand awareness. Breath of the Wild returning to Zelda's roots with a massive open world (that's what the original Zelda on the NES was) could pay off big time. |
But is the NES, not even SNES!
