Idea for nintendo.

propmanpropman
in Everything Else

I think it would be a really cool idea for Nintendo, on the NES' 25th anniversary to make a limited edition of the console, and produce a new version of Mario for the system, and maybe re-release some of their more popular games. It just seems to me that the system that made them famous, they have kind of pushed aside, and I think they need to give it some recognition.

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  • KHAN GamesKHAN Games
    They won't waste the money to make an updated version of the console when just as many people (more?) will buy the ROMs on the virtual console and that costs them next to nothing.
  • burnambill333burnambill333
    It would be pretty sweet, but it wouldn't be worth it for Nintendo. The fake "i want to be oldschool" people will just buy the games on Virtual Console. Even if the VC didn't exist it still wouldn't be profitable enough to make it worthwhile for Nintendo.
  • wrldstrmanwrldstrman
    with the wii out selling the ps3 and xbox but millions there is no chance.... plus look at the atari flashback it flopped
  • propmanpropman
    They could at least make a new mario for the system. They could to that without making the console. I got this idea when I saw these cokes being sold that were limited edition bottles made in the way they were when they first started out. There has to be something they could do. Maybe they could make a console that just had all of the games (plus a few new ones) programed into it, and just made to look like the console, but that would kind og just be not realistic enough, (but sould solve alot of problems people had been and are having with the system).
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  • dangevindangevin
    Take a lesson from Messiah. They tried going the "deluxe" route. The problem is, gamers are idealists. We tend to chase "the best" - the best computers, the best gameplay...but it's elusive. Messiah tested and retested their target market, and produced the best according to input.



    But the best just plain cost too much.



    It's nice, sexy, but the Yobo has probably sold 20x-50x more units worldwide, and at a better profit margin I'm betting. And although the target market of hardcore gamers might prefer the sexier Messiah (even marketed by a hot woman representative), they only represent a minority of all gamers looking to relive their Nintendo childhoods through hardware.



    So a percentage of a minority will by the high-end product. Not looking promising.



    Back to Nintendo releasing an anniversary edition: If Nintendo released a physical console - it would cannibalize their sales by undermining their VC. All of a sudden, now people are spending $4 apiece to third parties on old games that Nintendo already realized $ on 20 years ago, instead of $4 apiece for virtual games from their server.



    Their true anniversary will be kicking the pants off PS3 and 360 this Christmas again by enforcing their superb and time-tested supply chain to push out more units, and producing top-notch must-have platform-exclusives like SMGalaxy.



    An anniversary spent innovating and looking forward, not backward.
  • propmanpropman
    Ok then, how about this.  Their biggest selling game was mario, so why not take the first 3 mario games, and polish them up. Make them new, better, fuller sounding music, and better graphics?
  • propmanpropman
    Or, they could just make an edition of the Wii, that looked like an NES.
  • NationalGameDepotNationalGameDepot
    If they even considered doing that (which they wouldn't) they would just release it on the VC via the Wii. The production $$$ and cost wouldn't = the total # of units sold. The NES is a dead system for them. In fact they just stopped providing service for the NES this year in fact. As much as we would all LOVE a new games to play it just isn't going to happen. You best shot at new games will be the ones bunnyboy at retrozone puts out.

    ~~NGD
  • nes4evernes4ever
    Originally posted by: propman

    Ok then, how about this.  Their biggest selling game was mario, so why not take the first 3 mario games, and polish them up. Make them new, better, fuller sounding music, and better graphics?


    SNES did that with Super Mario All-Stars
  • propmanpropman
    Yeah, I know, but now that I know the reality of it, I still don't see why it would be a big deal on their part to just release an NES themes Wii. Looks like an NES, but plays like a Wii. Simple, and I think it would sell.
  • propmanpropman
    Hmm. I didn't know about the super mario all-stars, but that is for snes. I mean new. But, I think I saw them do something like that on the DS though, so scrap that.
  • NationalGameDepotNationalGameDepot
    You can already but a skin for you Wii to make it look like a NES. I do think in a few years they might release a classic series Wii to look like a NES, they done it with the GBA SP.

    ~~NGD
  • jimpoleshukjimpoleshuk
    Adam,

    Sounds like you and Nintendo Inc are on the same page with attracting the retro gamer 
  • KHAN GamesKHAN Games
    All we need right now is something to attract more people to the retro Nintendo to inflate the prices even more.



    /sarcasm off
  • jaredkkjaredkk
    Originally posted by: propman

    Yeah, I know, but now that I know the reality of it, I still don't see why it would be a big deal on their part to just release an NES themes Wii. Looks like an NES, but plays like a Wii. Simple, and I think it would sell.


    SOunds like a project you could attempt your self.  Try to fit the Wii's gut's into an NES shell.
  • udisiudisi
    Originally posted by: jaredkk



    Originally posted by: propman<BR><BR>Yeah, I know, but now that I know the reality of it, I still don't see why it would be a big deal on their part to just release an NES themes Wii. Looks like an NES, but plays like a Wii. Simple, and I think it would sell.
    <BR><BR>SOunds like a project you could attempt your self. Try to fit the Wii's gut's into an NES shell.




    I think that's actually already been done.
  • propmanpropman
    Thank you so much mewithoutyou for your quick and funny wit.
    /sarcasm off

    And now, I see what you are talking about here. http://www.uncrate.com/men/gear/gaming/nes-wii-skin/
    Not really what I had in mind, but it will do the job I guess.
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