June 2018 NPD: PS4 #1 console, Mario Tennis Aces #1 software

[DonFerrari]

Mandalore76 said:

DonFerrari said:

He can buy the original HW, still being sold around

Which route has a better ease of purchase?  Walking down the electronics aisle of Target, Wal-mart, etc. and picking up an NES Classic with 30 games installed on it; or scouring eBay, flea markets, retro game stores for both hardware and those 30 games?  Also, which one is going to leave a smaller footprint in your entertainment set-up?  Not to mention price point.  Say you found an original console, tested working, with all the hookups for $30 and the games for $5 each.  You just spent 3x what the Classic Edition cost.

For me buying the original is easie. Just go to ebay, see if seller is thrustworthy and make the purchase.

Minis from Nintendo all suffered from scalping.

Even more when in Brazil I can buy a SNES for R$100 (30USD) but the Snes Mini cost R$2000 (500USD)

zorg1000 said:

DonFerrari said:

He can buy the original HW, still being sold around

Thats certainly an option but there are a few things that make the new version much more convenient.

1. NES/SNES Classic are sold at popular retail stores (Wal Mart/Target/Best Buy) so you can buy them on impulse while the originals you have to actively seek out.

2. The Classic editions are cheaper than what it would cost to get the originals along with a couple dozen games.

3. There is always a risk in buying ~30 year old electronics, the chances of them not working or going bad is much higher than with the new versions.

1 - Sure, they present revenue for Nintendo and facilitate exposition to customer.

2 - And also they are soulless, if it's just to play the games people are already emulating them.

3 - Considering that a lot of NES/SNES are outliving PS1/PS2 shows that the old HW is quite reliable, probably even more than the minis.

Farsala said:

DonFerrari said:

How many sales have PS4 lost because of lack of crossplatform?

No clue. But it is clear that Fortnite is one of the reasons PS4 is up YoY YTD.

It can only mean that people bought Fortnite in PS4 out of protest for its lack of crossplatform =p