I don't know why talking about a system I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of in a thread set up to do just that makes me have an "odd fixation". There isn't much to do other than speculate right now, but since this thread had veered off into a discussion about the N64 (partly due to my initial comment about it) I thought I'd post my latest thought about it to pull it back on track.BogusMeatFactory wrote:That's cool, you don't have to. No one is putting a gun to your head and telling you to buy a switch and subscribe to their $20 a year service. I just am sensing an odd fixation is all. What glaring omissions are being left out of the snes classic? How do you know that the snes classic will have the same production issues the nes classic will have? Why care that much when you already are getting one?Betagam7 wrote:Making an entire product, then making sure almost nobody can buy it, simply in the hope that it will lead to better sales of an entirely different product isn't a normal strategy I'm familiar with so I thought it was an interesting point of discussion.BogusMeatFactory wrote:That Nintendo is using the snes classic as a marketing tool? What else would they make their product for?
I still don't see why you think I'm upset by it. I already bagged my preorder.I'm perfectly happy for Nintendo to sell me the exact nostalgia I crave in a tiny little box. I'm not going to buy a Switch because of it though...and I'm sure as heck not going to subscribe to Nintendoflix or whatever they come out with. I'll be interested to see if the strategy works for them.
To answer your questions.
1. I don't think there are "glaring omissions" and, in fact, my post was theorizing about why one of the only obvious ones I can think about was left off for some Kirby golf game. It could also be that Nintendo is trying to fill different genres and needed something loosely themed around "sport". As I said, Super Tennis isn't a franchise like Kirby is so it makes business sense to put a mascot game on their instead.
2. I don't think the SNES Classic will have the same "production issues as the NES classic"...because, as I've mentioned, I don't think there were any production issues. It was a conscious decision by Nintendo to do this. They've been quite public in the past about not wanting to put their games out on mobile devices for fear of lowering the stock of their back catalogue (despite everyone and their aunt knowing how to obtain these games for free).
3. "Why care that much when you are already getting one?
Are you asking me why I post in a thread about something I'm excited to get (presuming I do in fact get one, which is still something of a nervous worry if pre-orders aren't fulfilled). That seems an odd question and one I don't really understand.
Are you somehow suggesting I shouldn't have anything to say about the system and the theories around its existence because of this?
I really don't understand what you are getting at other than seemingly implying that I shouldn't be posting my thoughts here if they are anything other than sunshine and rainbows.
I hope it isn't that.
