Sorry to be bitter and cynical, but I doubt I'll see one available, so it doesn't matter whether I want one or not.
With Nintendo loving the whole "Artificial scarcity equals good brand hype" thing, I expect this to go down exactly as the NES classic went. Frankly I wanted a NES classic more than I ever wanted a SNES, but that's just me. Like the NES, I expect there to be none on shelves after the first hour (at best), never to be seen or heard from again, except by scalpers. Then we'll get another lame disavowal from Nintendo in March saying, "It was never supposed to be more than a holiday thing."
Bite me once, shame on you; bite me twice, shame on me.
Number 1: While Guardians of the galaxy may be awesome, unless she's into it, it's not first date material. Yes, I know, Sacrilege. Get used to it. When I was growing up, even being interested in sci-fi or computers got you a, "Eeeeeew, gross! Nerd! You suck!" label that would end your date options with women then and there. If you weren't a dumb caveman jock you weren't interesting to women. Although that DOES explain a great deal about the US's mental tendencies in adults these days. Maybe you should ask your mom how she met your dad... Be happy your date was willing to tolerate it, even if not interested, and didn't walk out in the middle. Also be happy today isn't like my teen/20s years.
Number 2: Did you even bother to learn ANYTHING about her before asking her out, or did you just see a pic and decide she would be a good lay and arm candy? The dating process isn't just about you, nor is it just about her (yes, spoiled ladies, suck it up). That's called give and take and should be 50/50, but seldom is. If you're not able to at least try, then maybe you shouldn't be dating.
Number 3: If you're that much into Sci-fi and she isn't, there are likely a lot of other things you're not similar in. Count yourself lucky you didn't get to the I do's before she showed her true personality, like quite a few women of my generation did. It would have been a short, or very long and miserable marriage. Count it as a small financial cost for saving you boatloads in the divorce.
@mariokart64fan: Yes, well, maybe they'll have to go back to their deep roots and resume making playing cards then, because frankly I'm done buying their electronics stuff. Fed up with the half-arsed attempts at doing things lately and their inability to have a grasp on their demographics and thus production. Did they bother to tell us it was a limited edition? Not that I recall... Coming back later and saying, "we only meant it to be a Xmas thing." in the face of huge demand is total business stupidity. It ticks off your customers and alienates them all on the hope that you can create hype via scarcity. And now they're doing it again with the Switch. Ugh.
This is more Nintendo marketing stupidity. They seem to have a delusional tendency to think that creating an artificial shortage will somehow create a demand for their stuff.
How exactly in this day and age can you have such a shortage? You either make absurdly low sales estimates, or you deliberately not make as many to try and raise hype by having a shortage. It's not like China won't happily make millions of these things. I get how they might be skittish on sales because of the failure WiiU, but come on, it's the childhoods of a whole friggin generation. You can't underestimate that.
Now they're having "shortages" on the Switch... I don't think I'll be buying any more Nintendo stuff. I'm really tired of getting jerked around by them. Maybe they'll be smart and go the way of Sega and be a software company, because there's nothing to really innovate on in the game console market to set them apart. VR, maybe.
This is interesting information, considering that yesterday (Wednesday March 29) I went to Target and they said that their Nintendo rep informed them that as of the day before (Tuesday) they were no longer going to make the NES Classic anymore.
So either the Target employee is a hateful liar or Nintendo hasn't informed the rest of the tech world.
Another debacle by a corporate behemoth trying to give the illusion of entertainment (playing online) while bending your customers over a barrel and giving them a jolly rogering (persistent connection). I should have learned with Spore. I really should have. The Lesson?
Never buy from EA again.
Too bad I didn't listen to my own advice. It was Simcity after all. Maxis. My most revered company from my younger years... The one that made my favorite games other than Sid Mier's. They wouldn't betray me, right?
Oh, that's right. It's EA now. I should have known.
What I get is a persistent connection game that ALMOST ate my code and gave me no game, with city sizes that are so small that it's almost impossible to build anything but tiny suburbs hopelessly dependent on each other for their survival, thus forcing me to build either online with someone else, or make multiple cities. What the hell were they thinking? Why can't I design terrain anymore? Why can't I zone like the real word does anymore with multiple levels of zoning for each class? Why are the city sites so damn small? Really? Why can't you make servers that can handle the load if you're designing a ONLINE games?
Executives should be fired. Their useless heads should be stuck on pikes in front of the building as a warning to other moronic management that thinks they should make similar decisions.
I won't. No-- I can't-- in good conscience buy again from EA after this travesty.
@rem234 It's the paradigm shift from just paying for a device to having to be nickel-and-dimed for everything. For instance, you mentioned $5 bucks a month for Live. How many other services are doing the same? How much a month do you spend on services, instead of just buying a device and having it work? Services are guaranteed revenue streams, and the corps love those.
Except, we can't afford all those services, and people hate being nickel-and-dimed. Yes, we can do without. Or, people find other ways to game. What about a bit-torrent style gaming network where a server only lists games being played and available slots and the traffic is handled P2P only? Do you think MS would allow an app for that on the 720? I doubt it. Why do they want them centralized? Because they want control and they want revenue streams.
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