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Famicom Mini sells 262,961 in Japan
- Thread starter Sammy Samusu
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Coulomb_Barrier
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I'm not being serious this is impressive for Ninty.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Its not that Japan is "embracing" anything as this country always had a good number of retro gamers in it. So as long as it had titles that folks would be interested in, the item was sure to sell. Plus the general nostalgia factor. With how small it is too makes it easier to pick one up for the hell of it, as its not like its going to be taking up a lot of space.
You beat me to it.
Hmm, not sure about this.
The only thing I can think of is avoiding people realize how inflated* the prices of VC are, but even that could arguably be a stretch given the Classic is likely meant to be an (even more) mass market-oriented product compared to your ordinary dedicated console.
* not to mention the lack of crossbuy... this is something they absolutely need to fix with Switch IMHO
And the lifetime sales of Vita TV
OnionPowder
Member
Wow Japan was so fucking wrong with the Dreamcast
if nintendo launches with that red and gold colour scheme for switch i'm sure it could sell 1million+ fairly quickly
sixteen-bit
Member
what the fuck were they gonna play, that shitty godzilla game?
NA launch was great, but that's because it came out much later and consequently had a great launch library.
NES Classic Mini comes already bundled with Nintendo own best selling software and some of the third-parties best selling software.
Adding eshop support would increase costs on Nintendo part without giving much benefit to Nintendo, all for the sake to sell third-party games for which Nintendo only gains a small margin.
Not worth the effort.
Why add stuff (increase in the costs and maintenance) to provide eshop support when you already have bundled your best selling games?
Nintendo better use those resources for other ventures.
the dreamcast in japan launched 10 months before it launched in the us. the us launch was basically the japanese launch plus the actual second wave of games.
test_account
XP-39C²
Thats a pretty good number indeed! I also didnt realize that it was this cheap in Japan where bigger console games can cost around 7k-8k yen. 6k yen for the Famicom Mini is a pretty good price in comparision.
sixteen-bit
Member
and there's no built -in cost for additional controllers like the NA and European systems