Let's say you're the head of Nintendo. How would you convince people who are already emulator savvy to buy an NES mini?

Let's say you're the head of Nintendo. How would you convince people who are already emulator savvy to buy an NES mini?

What would you add to it to make it worth their while?

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I'd add every nes game ever made.

A cartridge reader.

send one of their far-left wing treehouse hippies to my home so I can shower them with my pissbottles.

I would make a decent fun product made for the vast majority of the people who played the nes and who have a life and would rather play the real game on the proper controller and make them feel fun and nostalgia with their friends and kids.

Anyone thinking emulating is better should get cucked. They probably don't even own the game and probably won't play it fully since they got it for free.

When you buy something, you tend to enjoy it a bit more because you put your hard earned money on something you want and you feel proud of having.

Advertise it more like a fig with bonus emulator instead of an emulator in a fake nes
Also

Okay, but I want to play Duck Tales, so I guess I won't be buying your system.

A USB port.

I quite like Kid Dracula. So I won't be buying it either.

>When you buy something, you tend to enjoy it a bit more because you put your hard earned money on something you want and you feel proud of having.

Translation: When you buy something you feel forced to finish it because otherwise you just wasted your money.

this

i wouldn't try to convince them

why chase an audience that doesn't pay for games?

by giving 5 NES minis per store and create an artificial scarcity that would trick sheep to buy the product

It turns on in 5 seconds and comes with two already mapped controllers.
You can plug it in the livingroom so Player 2 doesn't have to enter your smelly bedroom.

If you're planning to use it solo, there is no point purchasing it unless you love the gamepad.

an analog composite video output

Yeah user I'm sure everyone who's ever used an NES emulator has never bought a video game.

I don't think these people are the target audience, so they would probably not go out of their way to try and appeal to them.

It's 60$ for 30 classic NES games in a miniature version of the original console. If you don't think that's a fair deal, spend your money elsewhere.

>Translation: When you buy something you feel forced to finish it because otherwise you just wasted your money.

That is surprisingly accurate.

Add more games, it has the fucking room

Lightgun controller

Other accessories?

I really don't know what else, emulating is so much better than buying a tiny NES with a limited library.

It's not that it doesn't room, ti's that more games = nintendo has to pay more split to other publsihers. They either do that by raising price of mini nes or taking a lower cut of the share, which they aren't gonna do to either.

Make more amiibos that have more games in them

Easy, just tell them that this adds to their collection. Collectors like to buy physical things.

Or maybe make 8-bit Amiibos that give you extra challenges in the vein of NES Remix.

Printed manuals
BOOM

That's literally it, and some stuff like cloth map for LoZ or FF.

I wouldn't because they wouldn't pay/couldn't afford to pay anyway. I'm targeting suckers because their pockets are deeper/frivolous with their money

A controller with a wire that's longer than my fucking leg.

Christ.

Kill Amiibos. Only manchildren collect these.

I wouldn't.

Its already made bank for Nintendo with little to no effort. Now they can do the same with an SNES And later an N64 of the same type and make bank off of that too.

Just fuck around and do whatever I want because I've been given a literally impossible task.

You can tell this piece of shit is just an excuse to move of a shit ton of unmoved Wii NES controllers, because going off cable length alone those controllers are designed to dangle off a wiimote not a fucking console.

Buying it for my Dad. Itll be nice to put up in his man cave.

You legitimately couldn't.
Even if they tripled production and there was enough of them to meet demand, a Raspberry Pi starter kit is equal to the regular MSRP and plays dozens more consoles.

Good luck finding it.

All the stores in my area have sold out and its going for 200+ on amazon and ebay

Nothing, they aren't the target audience. It's not hard to figure out that people will buy a preloaded emulator of a console a lot of people are nostalgic for with the right presentation. If anything, it's amazing that it took Nintendo until 2016 to do it. Shit's all but free money.

Who the fuck is desperate enough to buy a 30 game emulator for 200+ fucking dollars from a scalper? No kid wants this thing that badly for their birthday.

>How would you convince people who are already emulator savvy to buy an NES mini?
I wouldn't, because my target audience isn't them even if I still consider them part of my consumerbase. The product is being aimed towards nostalgiahounds and grandmas looking for a holiday present to give away.

People who's spoiled brats kids DEMAND it as their christmas gifts

But what spoiled brat kid is going to want a nostalgia bait 30 year old console?

>Implying kids want old NES games
user I a sure that it is mostly 30-45 year olds that want these things.

It would have to be a multi nintendo emulator package with at least nes and snes games, take cartridges and/or be expandable with more game packs.

It would need to ship with more than one controller and they would need to NOT BE SO DAMN SHORT THE SYSTEM HAS TO HANG BETWEEN MY LEGS WHILE I PLAY.

Also, needs full emulator features like savestates and such in a logical way to access it.

I'd put on the good games, probably naming it the NES Selects or something. Just watch the nerd rage at it not having a fan favorite be my free advertising.

kids who watch youtube ecelebs who are pushing this product very hard

hell my little cousin already asked for one because he saw it on one of his youtube shows

Which youtube show?

Parents who desire to foist their childhood on their children, without paying premiums for retro cartridges and consoles.
The exact same kind of parents who, 20 years ago, demanded their children listen to THEIR music and not "this trash they make nowadays".

Has anybody priced out the cost of an original NES top-loader with two controllers and the 30 games that come with the NES Mini? I'm sure $200 would be a steal compared to how much that would cost.

youtube propaganda

You can flip it for $300 easy.

Fuck scalpers.

>Has anybody priced out the cost of an original NES top-loader with two controllers and the 30 games that come with the NES Mini? I'm sure $200 would be a steal compared to how much that would cost.
I could easily buy an nes, two controllers, and a flash cart to have the whole library plus all the homebrew and romhacks I want for less than people are paying for an NES mini.

Yes, I'd very much like to hear which "YouTube shows" this obviously not fabricated cousin was watching, because even the biggest gaming channels on YT don't often touch Nintendo games thanks to their draconian monetization restrictions. Shit like Mario Maker and Smash are one thing, but nobody's going to be "pushing" an emulation of games over 30 years old just because there's new hardware for it.

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My little cousin watched this and asked for the NES mini for christmas

Just produce and distribute the real NES for a second time. Cartridges and all.

This should be a thing for all old consoles.

Can you imagine touching a brand new, fresh out the factory, sealed NES game?

Imagine what it smells like.

UUUNNNGGGHHH!

Is that the bitch from Game of Thrones? I want to rape her till she dies.

>18 million views for this garbage

I've lost all faith in the world

New 8-bit games.

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c'mon Sup Forums, it's the obvious answer

For one, they could actually put all their first party games on it rather than skipping some.

>NES Mini

I wouldn't, it wouldn't appeal to the emulator savvy crowd.

The SNES Mini on the other hand, I can see the emulator crowd going wild for that because it would have long term games instead of just pick up and play type games.

Even if they are emulator savvy, I can't see them turning down a JRPG machine with Super Metroid, ALTTP, Super Mario World, and the Donkey Kong Country games.

Seriously this
Why is it so hard? I want to eventually in 10n or so years, be able to buy a brand new ps1, n64, xbox fat, gamecube, gameboy advance and ps2.
I was poor when they were out and now it is virtually impossible to get one brand new.

No, you cant

How do the Nes Mini games look on HD wifescreen?

No need to.

The emulator crowd wants to buy it too.

Make it a box for all of their systems up to the N64 or maybe GCN, and have as many games possible on it

A controller with a wire longer than the length of my arm.

no change, i don't want you emu shitlords ruining my product with your "customization"

I would also give it Wi-Fi capability, tie it to your NNID and let you buy and download games to it, so if you have VC games across your Wii, Wii U and 3DS, you can download them all there.

An NES and two controllers is cheap as shit, and people are paying $200 to $300 for nes minis because it's a hot scalper item.

An nes flash cart only costs about $100-$120

I'd have money left over.

How do you load an NES flashcart? Does it have an SD reader embedded in it?

Yeah you just use a standard sd card. You stick it in the flash cart and then when you boot up the system you pick a game and it loads it.

>a flash cart
I can buy a bare Raspberry Pi for $30, a complete kit for $70, and two controllers for an extra $20.
I'm talking about legit cartridges here.

>How would you convince people who are already emulator savvy to buy an NES mini?
Who are you fooling?

More bonus content besides just the games. Manual scans, interviews, old commercials, official and fan art, remixed soundtracks, cheevos, that kind of thing.

Also these

dunno, there's 100k+ videos about it

>implying the mini isn't also doing emulation

And what I described will run every bit as good, more accurate even, on actual hardware, the nes mini or your raspberry pi will. The function is identical at that point, that's the whole point of flash card vs emulation.

Point is, the nes mini isn't a good value considering all options.

You can buy a toploader nes on ebay right now for less than an nes mini with a flash cart bundled with it.

You don't because it's a waste of time. Why would even try to convince the worst community (PC) in all of gaming?

>Let's say you're the head of Nintendo. How would you convince people who are already emulator savvy to buy an NES mini?
Why would I? There's plenty of overlap with people who use/have used an emulator and people who haven't who will buy this.

Most people, who probably have not played with actual hardware in 10-20 years, aren't going to notice the minute differences in quality between hardware and emulation.
The Pi can emulate any console up to fifth generation.

Then why set an arbitrary demand that it has to be price matched using only physical cartridges?

I hear it only has a HDMI port. For real no av scart or anything?
Thats kind of ironic is it not? I bet /vr/ lost its shit when they found out you can't even play thr fucking NES mini on a crtv. Or am i wrong?

make it compatible with old cartridges and re-release some of them

whats worse is the light guns wont work on lcd screens. it NEEDS crt

Have the gamepads be usb, to at least get those emulating to buy the controller.

I said customized emulation, faggot

not everyone consumerist swine

Because when the original argument was being posited, it's assumed that anyone buying an NES Mini sees making a legitimate purchase (versus emulation, which regardless of your personal views is theft/piracy if you don't own original cartridges) as a potential selling point.

By not limiting production to purposely create artificial scarcity so that only scalpers are able to get them.

Adding SCART or any other analog output would have only added to cost and so few are going to even use them. The thing is targeted at Normans, not your typical /vr/ autist who will have the original hardware anyway. It's nothing more than a cheap ARM SoC running a software emulator that's made completely retard proof.

I don't do anything. They're not the target market and were already sold out of them.

I don't, I know emulator savy people aren't, gonna buy it unless I can put every nes game on there (which I can't do because of licensing issues) for $20 to $30. It would also be a bad business decision.

But they wouldn't have to if they added their own games

>They're not the target market and were already sold out of them.
Because Nintendo shipped out 2 units to every major gamestop, walmart and target in the USA. Nintendo keeps doing this artificial scarcity thing, they've been pulling this stunt repeatedly for decades.

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I wouldn't. I would provide better alternatives for people who don't want a plug-and-play system.
I would cut prices on NES virtual console games to near parity with NES Classic prices ($2.50 per game), stop using the weird darken filter, and allow purchased games to be used on any Nintendo device associated with an account.

You don't. You ignore them and focus on the 7 billion other people who aren't emulator savvy.

Most 30 year old consumer electronics do not retain their value and NES games/hardware is no exception

Recognizing this, I would do something to make the games new. An additional level, a new character, something that makes it different than the ROMs you can download online. Also don't lock the device to a handful of games, but make games downloadable cheaply and easily online. Like 50 cents a piece and they'd be flying

Piracy is a service problem

sd card slot that can read ROMs

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Nothing. I mean, if you know that some people will eat your shit and even defend everything you do then you just shit faster and that's it.

suicide is the only option.

Post a picture of them and I will consider your offer.