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Well that's pretty much bullshit
Taketheword:
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--- Quote from: Too Beaucoup on April 15, 2017, 04:38:46 AM ---I wasn't talking about a crappy 3D printed NES shell. LOL! I just meant a Pi, in general. There's tons of nice Pi cases that are high quality and look terrific, I wasn't, specifically, talking about a Pi shell that looked like an NES. I guess, if you're buying the Classic and spending $60 bucks because you like the shell. Well, then that's a different story. I guess, if that shell is worth the $60+ dollars to people, more power to you. The actual content you get out of the Classic is certainly not worth $60 bucks, though.
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You are missing the point. Is an official Nintendo brand device, as a collector is not the same to have a Pi instead of a Nintendo classic. Is like saying that you prefer to buy a Chinese made repro of Little Samson for $25 instead of the original one for $400. Sure you'll have the game cheaper, you'll play with it, but from a collector view is not the same even if the game play is the the same or even if the cartridge is an exact copy of the original
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This^. Plus the NES Classic's UI is pretty nice.
palmer6strings:
I'm late to the party, but the Classic NES is actually pretty nice. I'd rather have it than a PI any day anyway. If for some reason I decide to ever get rid of anything, the Classic NES will be much easier to flip that a PI.
I also was much more interested personally in the NES than the Switch. Mainly because the Switch has nothing which interest me AT ALL yet. I've also seen way to many horror vids of problems with the Switch for me to even bother with.
Then it comes down to people that can't handle newer technologies. I'll give an example.
My mom, (who wants a Classic NES but can't really get one right now because of asshole scalpels) can't play newer games because of all the controls and buttons and what not, but she can play most of the simpler Nintendo games just fine.
I guess if anyone has a Classic NES that they would be willing to sell for not much more that retail I'd be willing to buy it from you for her.
$60 really isn't all that much anyway for a console with 30 games stock. I'm sure most of us have spent way more on rather trivial things. Plus I believe Wiggy was pretty close to hitting the nail on the head about what they were making on the systems after all the product, employee, and shipping costs, but if you look at it like they sold 100,000 at $10, they just made a quick $1,000,000 with virtually little work done to supply the system.
sheep2001:
Yeah, little to supply, but what about design, market, manufacture..........
Arseen:
You can buy those here from certain major online store... They have plenty of them... price is only 199 Euros + postage...
wiggy:
Anyone comparing the price of the $60 NES classic to a Pi box and calling the classic a ripoff is seriously not thinking it through.
Nice wired USB controleller - $20
Pi itself - $20-40
Case - $10-20
Power adapter - $10
HDMI cable - $10
SD card - $10
And before anyone argues "I can get an HDMI cable/USB controller/power adapter/etc for $1", consider what Nintendo is offering with their package. They don't make or sell crappy hardware. So if you're gonna properly compare it apples-to-apples, then the quality MUST be considered.
Even applying this formula with crappy parts, you'd still end up around $60 worth of parts, and have a lot of assembly and work to do.
--- Quote from: Too Beaucoup on April 15, 2017, 04:38:46 AM ---I wasn't talking about a crappy 3D printed NES shell. LOL! I just meant a Pi, in general. There's tons of nice Pi cases that are high quality and look terrific, I wasn't, specifically, talking about a Pi shell that looked like an NES. I guess, if you're buying the Classic and spending $60 bucks because you like the shell. Well, then that's a different story. I guess, if that shell is worth the $60+ dollars to people, more power to you. The actual content you get out of the Classic is certainly not worth $60 bucks, though.
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I clearly used that to exemplify what the Nintendo hardware has that a Pi box doesn't. It doesn't matter what Pi shell you choose, it won't be a Nintendo product. I've seen plenty of nice laser cut acrylic shells. Want one of those?
No problem. I can fart that sort of crap out in my sleep.
But it's not Nintendo.