Amazon U.S. February bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion

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JRPGfan said:

RolStoppable said:
Great to see Nintendo's console do well.

Its Impressive people still want to play 34 year old games on such a dated system.

Even more so that they are willing to pay 140$ for it (which is hellva overpriced).

Even more so when you consider today everything and anything is able to run emulated game versions just as well.

Wasn't the NES Mini priced $60 at first though? So who raised the price? Nintendo or retailers?

And I think there's a lot of people who don't want to bother emulating because they think it's too hard or something, I don't know. Plus it's physical and looks cool. 

Anyway, the way prices work is that you find a good balance between demand, supply and price. If customers are buying the NES en masse at $140 then you can't blame Nintendo for asking such a price. 

The Snes Mini should be released at $100-150 if it ever comes out. This is a goldmine for Nintendo lol.