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I know right?! Either that, or they know something I don't. They could probably make a lot more from selling these. It's like they don't need it and want to keep it limited in numbers, which doesn't rhyme with how many original NES' were sold and how OK they were with that. :)

Or maybe they want to start selling NES titles on the Switch and they don't want to compete with themselves or something?

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You'd expect some virtual console on the Switch but that is still missing the point of the NES Classic, which is cheap enough to be an impulse buy or a gift, and cashes in on the nostalgia of an entire generation.

I know a lot of people who haven't played video games since they were kids who wanted the NES Classic, it has a unique appeal.

> they know something I don't

Am I weird for thinking that it's very likely that an entire company with over 100 years of experience _does_ know something that you don't?

Institutional knowledge gets lost everytime an employee dies or leaves the company.

Tell me about it! Squaresoft is no longer the company that made the great games of my childhood (SNES era). All of the key talent that went into those games has left the company.

Well, they can think they know something that isn't true anymore. I've seen it before at companies, the circumstances leading up to their success are often repeated as sacrosanct steps not to be questioned.

If only it worked that way. Besides, Wii U anyone? They have plenty of recent fumbles we could bring up.

Anytime I see Switch mentioned, I think about nintendo's ol' switcheroo 22 years ago that ultimately outdid nintendo.

Are you referring to the Pokemon Company?

More likely the Sony drive for SNES that they scrapped and Sony made into the playstation.

Yes, it's my favorite story.

tl;dr: Sony gets backstabbed by Nintendo, proceeds to destroy them in their own staple industry for the next few decades by releasing Sony Playstation.

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