SNES Classic Game List revealed
 

Contra III: The Alien Wars™
Donkey Kong Country™
EarthBound™
Final Fantasy III
F-ZERO™
Kirby™ Super Star
Kirby’s Dream Course™
The Legend of Zelda™: A Link to the Past™
Mega Man® X
Secret of Mana
Star Fox™
Star Fox™ 2
Street Fighter® II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
Super Castlevania IV™
Super Ghouls ’n Ghosts®
Super Mario Kart™
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars™
Super Mario World™
Super Metroid™
Super Punch-Out!! ™
Yoshi’s Island™

It will be 80 bucks coming out 9/29

http://kotaku.com/nintendo-announces...sic-1796418700

what a joke.

nintendo is fast loosing their audience. it's like they don't even care anymore.

Cool! It also comes with the never before released Star Fox 2 game, to unlock it, you just have to beat the first level of Star Fox.

It's neat, and I'll probably get one if it doesn't vanish like morning dew in the sun like the NES did. But the game roster is a bit underwhelming.

Really wish they'd make the controllers bluetooth but otherwise, cool!

That's a great list of games, even if not as plentiful, it's cheaper than getting them on Virtual Console, not only are they all big hits, no padding with smaller games like "Pilotwings" that the NES Classic had but it has games that have never been included in the VC like Star Fox, the never released ever in any shape or form Star Fox 2, Yoshi's Island.

So for many years I got called an idiot for saying that there was no evidence that Nintendo couldn't release the games because they didn't have the rights of the SFX chip but while there has to be something going on, I knew Nintendo wasn't holding back just because of some licensing issues. Fandoms love to create stories about why a certain product can't be produced and then they believe it as fact when there is no evidence. Same thing happened with Earthbound, surely there was something holding it back but it's something we won't ever know and not the speculated reason and nothing is impossible.

Even with less games and at 80 bucks it will sell out like the NES classic, could it have less demand? Sure but there's enough people out there to make this unavailable until Nintendo stops producing them.

Oh, nice. Star Fox 2 is nuts.

wut

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So they release the elusive Star Fox 2 that people wanted on the Virtual Console for more than a decade, on something that Nintendo's going to barely make any shipments on and then stop production on in a few monthes like the NES classic?

WTF?! What on earth was stopping them from putting Star Fox 2 on the Virtual Console since the Wii days then?

Bless you, Nintendo, for finally releasing Star Fox 2.

Curse you, Nintendo, for making it exclusive to a low-production run novelty item where production will fall far short of demand.

Even without an exclusive like this, that thing was gonna sell out hours before release day.

What are odds it ever gets put on the Virtual Console or whatever the Switch's service is called?

I would say high but with Nintendo you never know, the VC is not even a priority for Nintendo and people will defend them for the lack of basic features and Reggie will continue to tell us to "Wait for what's coming". We've waited for over ten years for decent online and are still waiting :lol:

What's stopping Nintendo to do really basic things in all their systems?

Nintendo gotta Nintendo.

We hate them for it but it's also why we love them.

Nintendo has been doing a lot of things people have wanted lately:

- Pokemon RBY, and now Gold/Silver are added to the Virtual Console when people thought the old Pokemon games would never be uploaded to them

- Metroid II is finally getting a remake

- Metroid Prime 4 was announced, Metroid Prime 3 came out in 2007...literally 10 years ago

- Mario Kart 8 now finally has proper battle mode maps on the Switch, the Wii-U version did not

- Star Fox 2 finally released!

- Old franchises like Kid Icarus, Punchout, Starfox, Wario Land, etc. all got revivals in the Wii or Wii-U era.

- Mother 3 will likely come out eventually, no way did Nintendo not localize it after all the demand


Plus their current games have been cream of the crop. Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Donkey Kong, Pokemon, etc. have all gotten top tier new entries/sequels lately.

SNES Classic will have more produced than NES Classic but SNES Classic Production will stop at the end of the year


http://kotaku.com/nintendo-announces...sic-1796418700

that's what I don't get.

something like this should be easily producible for YEARS.
Why is a giant company like nintendo having shortage problems?

something isn't adding up here.

This seems great, but I don't own only about... 4 games on the list?

Gold and Silver to the 3DS VC?! When?

It was announced a few days ago that they're coming out on the 3ds vc sometime in September.

is it too much to ask for nick to get the legal rights to the turtle video games so they can finally be re released?

some of the most popular gams on the system, not available.

I'm going on a whim here, as I'm in no way an expert on this. However, if you seriously think Nintendo is willing to do business with Konami, the current gaming punchline, then that's not happening. I don't trust them, despite them at one point being one of my favorite companies. Same goes with Nickelodeon; Konami odds are would want big money.
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As with the NES Classic, the game selection is really underwhelming, they're games some people have a way to access, either by Virtual Console or previous collections. The only big takeaway is Star Fox 2 finally being released.

Well, Contra III is on there already.

Although I can understand a licensed game published by a 3rd party company is probably one of the most difficult arrangements to work out for a "budget" novelty item. I'm still surprised Capcom was able to re-release their 8-bit Disney Afternoon collection.

Where the heck is Turtles In Time? Its not just thr most praised Ninja Turtles game, but an often cited favorite among gamers. Is it a copyright problem? I would have bought it for that and Super Mario World alone,but now no sell.

Wish Batman Returns was on that. What a great beat em up by Konami

I'm really glad that Earthbound is included in the list. The Mother series deserves more modern day representation and with this more people will be able to make play it. (LOCALIZE MOTHER 3!!!)

The rest of the games included are a good pick, but I agree that thing they're doing with Star Fox 2 is stupid.

I won't be getting this as I'd prefer an actual SNES, but I hope you guys have fun trying to track one down when it comes out! *heh heh*

wow all selling out, glad I ordered one. Star Fox 2 is the big seller for me, love the new art

http://nintendoeverything.com/wp-con...ar-fox-2-1.jpg

Of course they'll sell out, its scalpers paradise.

The selection of games is awesome, I can't believe people are complaining. Maybe it's not for you but for what it is, it's awesome. I won't be getting one, I'd rather just have a retropi instead but awesome games plus an official Star Fox 2 release + SFX games that haven't had official releases since the SNES.

We don't know if these controllers will have the Wii switch or are usb yet right? They don't seem to be using the Wii Switch, so here's hoping they're USB. Even though this time they don't seem like they will sell them separately since they're including two already.

I'm surprised these classic systems even have third party games that Nintendo has to share money with but yeah it's too much of a hassle to even include licensed games. For example Turtles in Time would require Konami and whoever has the rights now to license it to Nintendo. For that price they'd rather just give you a game from both Capcom and Square Enix instead.



Again, Nintendo is Nintendo. As to why they did what they did with the NES Mini, as I posted on the NES Mini thread, here's some speculation educated speculation.

Nintendo needed a new product for holiday 2016 since the Wii U wasn't going to do anything for them nor did it have a big game. So they decided to produce NES Minis as a holiday item. This would also help them get rid of some of their Wii left over stuff since they share hardware cheapening the costs and it helped keep the factories busy with Nintendo products. In the tech world if you aren't manufacturing something they sell the space to another company and Nintendo was going to need that for the Switch so they weren't going to just hand it over and then pay more money to have what they already did.

They likely researched how much the Atari Flashbacks/Sega consoles were selling each holiday (since they release a new one each holiday pretty much) and decided to produce that many. They didn't expect it to be this huge hit and tried to make a few more but were limited.

So why did they decide to stop production?
As mentioned to focus on the Switch and they hadn't seen how much demand this product was going to have. For the SNES classic to be released this year it means it had to have already been in the schedule so they were met with the decision to make more NES or cancel the already in development SNES classic and they chose to go with their plans already in place.

Could it be because Nintendo realized that they were selling it too cheaply? Partly but I doubt that was the main reason. I think the NES classic will come back with different games in the holidays of 2018 and they'll be rotating it with the SNES classic. They'll have different games in each release as well but always include some of the "main" ones like Mario. Atari/Sega have been doing this for many years, Nintendo just wants part of that. I don't see Nintendo doing a N64 mini or Game Boy mini sadly.

Do you people have no idea how videogame licenses work? Konami no longer owns the rights to TMNT, but Turtles in Time the game is owned by them. Nintendo isn't going to work with Konami to get TMNT on this when they would also have to make a deal with Viacom, etc.

It's the same reason the TMNT games were never released on the Wii Virtual Console after Konami lost the rights to Ubisoft for TMNT games back in 2007.

They had me at Star Fox 2.

So according to this article, the controller cords will be longer than the ones for the NES Classic controllers. They'll be about five feet long.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/n...193700123.html

and I bet Nintendo will make it so nobody can hack the SNES Classic Edition this time around.

I don't know why I even bothered.

but it'll eventually get hacked once they figure it out.

Do these things even play normal SNES carts? I'll just keep my SNES, thank you.

But a TMNT game did show up on the Wii Virtual Console after that. The first one. Konami and Ubisoft collaborated not only on the release of that, but the original arcade game on Xbox 360, as well as Turtles in Time Re-Shelled.

TMNT 1 came out on the Virtual Console in early 2007, which was literally the first and only game they released for it because Ubisoft got the full license for the 2007 movie and for the next few years. And yeah, Re-shelled and stuff is because they made a conscience decision to deliver remakes. It's fairly obvious Ubisoft had to cut a deal with Konami to remake one of their old games.

Ha!
Of course they don't. This is Nintendo after all.
If they did then play them, then they couldn't churn out more of these with different games in a few years.

The entitlement in this thread is astonishing. It's a novelty item, people. Jesus Christ.

I think the thing is the vast majority of people who post here don't know much about the industry or games. Too many casuals.

In any case, the vast majority of these games are up on the Virtual Consoles, with the exception of Starfox and Starfox 2. So if you want any of these games and don't want to buy this, you can get them all easily. In fact I wonder if the two SNES Starfox games will be put up on the Virtual Console now.

Japan is getting the Super Famicom Mini as well

http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/06/...ames-for-japan

Yeah, but if you read the article, you'll see they are actually getting stiffed on some of the better games present!

Can't you just buy the cartridge and slot it in?

Can't say I'm surprised, especially not here.

I think this is great.

I do not believe that it works that way. Games are previously downloaded into the smaller sized gane console. What comes with it is all that can be played on it