Everyone saying that a USB stick would be more preferable, or that they already have all this stuff on other consoles/servers are completely missing the point.

Make it a USB stick that is hidden behind a TV and you miss the opportunity for someone to ask their friend "what is that and where do I get one?"

Make it a USB stick and you lose the ability for someone to display it in a collection, which is actually a point of purchase for some.

Rely solely on the market that is already buying your games and you are only ever selling to a dwindling base with a guaranteed reduction in profits year over year.

Not all games are made for people who play games. I know it is shocking, but it is also true.

It's quite unusual that placeholder prices are that inflated, especially when the product is fully unveiled with specs and features and has an actual retail price already set in other regions. So, no, this is not the usual Scandinavian placeholder routine. I thought it was common knowledge that we pay insane prices for electronics here?

I want the physical product. People want the console that looks like the NES with that same controller type. That's a huge part of the appeal here. 

And Nintendo is not making games for any other consoles, not right now, so that was never going to happen, this would be for the Wii U or NX or 3DS, take your pick, but anything else ... no way. 

This will likely be like 1000x more successful than Rare Replay. 

Of course, it will sell like hotcakes, people keeps talking about emulators or how Rare Replay is cheaper and things like that but that doesn't make sense, this thing is a Nes plug and play compatible with modern HD TVs that comes with a selection of games that costs 150$ on VC, it has 2 plugs for multiplayer and comes with a nes gamepad compatible with Wii/WiiU, all that for only 60$, is more practical than emulators, you can be sure an official emulation will be the best posible and you can easily take it with you to any place since is really small, this is well thinked product and it will be an obvious success. I just hope they ship enough so it doesn't turn like the first waves of amiibo.

Nope not uncommon at all, in fact it is praxis. Even Webhallen has stated so on facebook. We pay more on electronicsfor sure, but not double the price. It will probably land ~800 SEK or so but it wont be 1200.

For disk you need platform, but with NES Mini you have console, controler and 30 built in games for $60. So anyone can buy it and used without any hardware or additional costs. So I relly dont see how you can compare NES Mini with Rare Replay.

How exactly NES USB can be NES Mini console, that would be USB not console. You missing point, NES Mini is basically NES remastere with built in games.

This will sell like hot cake in holiday season because it's pretty cool and affordable gift.

How freaking cool would it be if they made mini nes carts for it. They could even develop new games for it. What a dream that would be. Mini original carts $9.99 and new games $14.99.

Well, I say it's unusual, I grew up in Norway and moved to Sweden 3 years ago. Either Swedish retailers do it differently (I never shopped for goods in Sweden before moving here since toll fees and VAT's would wreck any and all price differences anyway) or we simply have widely differing opinions for some reason, or perhaps simply shop in different places online and/or read different media and sources.

I dunno, but electronics are still way overpriced here, and with the damn license fees on top, it's a pain for a lot of people (the annual cost of simply owning a TV is pure BS).

Haha yeah obviously. It's an old habit of the state, cant let it go :P

It's Bergsala who sets the prices on Nintendo products in Scandinavia so once they name the price, a proper can be told the retailers. Sometimes they are quick sometimes it takes a while. The high price is obviously so they can repay instead of eating possible losses like CDON had to do on the Yarn Amiibos. They had them at 149:- for a long time before Bergsala priced them 299:- and due to their policy at the time (dont know if they still have it) everyone who had already paid 149:- could have them at that. Thus I saved 450:- ;)

As an American I can't even fathom that statement.

It is remarkably unfortunate that the entire world doesn't operate on the same coin and economic guidelines.