JRPGfan said:
People rather have a NES that plays 30year old games, than a new PS4 I guess... Nintendo is laughing all the way to the bank, the insides of that NES mini probably cost them less than 20$ to make. (a rasberry pie is plenty to emulate a nes) Controller, wire, box are probably all pretty cheap too, nintendo is makeing mad cash on each sale of these. |
Nintendo isn't selling these. They aren't making a dime on these sales, these are resellers. So Nintendo isn't laughing to anywhere.
And if I were to guess, they make $15 to $20 absolute tops on the NES. It's not just the system, they had to license those 3rd party games. And then there's all the little things that add up: fabricating the case, assembly, shipping, the retailer's cut. The NES made profits obviously but not the insane ammounts people think.
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