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[1769.00 --> 1772.00] Now we know that that didn't actually have to happen. |
[1772.00 --> 1775.00] Because they obviously are still making the same parts and the same fabs. |
[1775.00 --> 1779.00] They didn't have to make it an exclusive limited time only thing, but they did. |
[1779.00 --> 1781.00] They just hate money as far as I can tell. |
[1781.00 --> 1782.00] No, this makes you more money. |
[1782.00 --> 1784.00] It's like, why doesn't McDonald's have the rib witch all the time? |
[1784.00 --> 1786.00] No, it doesn't make you more money. |
[1786.00 --> 1789.00] It has influxes of demand when it comes out. |
[1789.00 --> 1793.00] Well, yeah, but that assumes that they're going to re-release the NES Mini. |
[1793.00 --> 1795.00] I think it says that they will. |
[1795.00 --> 1797.00] It may not be in the notes. |
[1797.00 --> 1799.00] But I think, like, next summer they're going to do that again. |
[1799.00 --> 1805.00] The second reason is that they could have made the Super NES all the time. |
[1805.00 --> 1811.00] The whole time they had the hardware requisite to make the Super Nintendo and only now they're giving it to us. |
[1811.00 --> 1812.00] Okay. |
[1812.00 --> 1814.00] So a thing we wanted for all the time we could have had. |
[1814.00 --> 1816.00] And a thing we still want now we can't have anymore. |
[1816.00 --> 1819.00] But Nintendo has the power and we're like, they're prisoners. |
[1819.00 --> 1822.00] Okay, so I'm going to play devil's advocate a little bit here. |
[1822.00 --> 1824.00] What was your first argument again? |
[1824.00 --> 1826.00] I don't remember, I wasn't really paying attention. |
[1826.00 --> 1827.00] They cancelled production. |
[1827.00 --> 1828.00] Ah, yes. |
[1828.00 --> 1830.00] So they stopped production of the NES Mini. |
[1830.00 --> 1832.00] So I... |
[1832.00 --> 1835.00] Okay, yeah, I really don't have a justification for that one. |
[1835.00 --> 1840.00] Okay, as for the SNES Mini not being released right away, that makes a ton of sense. |
[1840.00 --> 1842.00] Because from a marketing perspective, you want to... |
[1842.00 --> 1843.00] Staggerate. |
[1843.00 --> 1845.00] Yeah, you want to have products to roll out. |
[1845.00 --> 1849.00] You want people to have something to spend their disposable income on this month. |
[1849.00 --> 1852.00] And then if you release... |
[1852.00 --> 1854.00] You're basically fighting yourself. |
[1854.00 --> 1855.00] Don't make them choose. |
[1855.00 --> 1856.00] Don't make them choose. |
[1856.00 --> 1860.00] You know, wait till they've gotten a few more paychecks and then release something else. |
[1860.00 --> 1874.00] The other side of that argument, and I'm going to devil's advocate a little bit here, is that while obviously Nintendo didn't run out and like develop a bunch of new games for the SNES Mini, because that would be besides the point. |
[1874.00 --> 1878.00] Um, it's not like there wasn't going to be some development they had to do. |
[1878.00 --> 1881.00] Because this is now... |
[1881.00 --> 1888.00] A janky ROM running on ZSNES on your old laptop that doesn't even have a modem in it. |
[1888.00 --> 1898.00] So, literally copying like ROMs over on that 16 meg thumb drive that one of your friends in high school gave you, because he's a super cool dude. |
[1898.00 --> 1903.00] And he like, you know, went back to China before we had USB thumb drives here in North America and brought you one. |
[1903.00 --> 1904.00] Why didn't you marry one? |
[1904.00 --> 1905.00] I was like, I'm not sure why. |
[1905.00 --> 1922.00] Um, well, because, uh, uh, anyway, the point is, you know, this is not some, you know, and oh, right, so then you have to use your USB drive on your desktop to copy your ROMs over to this laptop, and then you take the laptop around with you, but it actually doesn't really have like a working battery anymore, so you have to be plugged in. |
[1922.00 --> 1925.00] You know, totally hypothetical story. |
[1925.00 --> 1926.00] Um, this is... |
[1926.00 --> 1928.00] So, it's gonna work good. |
[1928.00 --> 1930.00] It's supposed to work properly. |
[1930.00 --> 1938.00] So, they actually do need to spend some time, presumably, doing some testing, making sure everything is smooth. |
[1938.00 --> 1951.00] Now, to be clear, it's not like, you know, NES or SNES emulators running on, you know, ARM CPUs is anything new at all, but there's just some validation to be done. |
[1951.00 --> 1953.00] Before they can actually release a product like this. |
[1953.00 --> 1965.00] They've got to create box art, which, you know, you might not think about as a consumer in terms of, like, whatever, it's box art, who cares? |
[1965.00 --> 1968.00] You throw some art on a box, like, what's wrong with you? |
[1968.00 --> 1974.00] But you actually have to factor in, okay, you know, which company is producing it? |
[1974.00 --> 1975.00] What colors and what... |
[1975.00 --> 1976.00] Right. |
[1976.00 --> 1978.00] Can they put the Nintendo seal foil on it? |
[1978.00 --> 1979.00] Sure. |
[1979.00 --> 1980.00] Can they do this? |
[1980.00 --> 1981.00] Can they do that? |
[1981.00 --> 1982.00] When can they meet the order? |
[1982.00 --> 1983.00] When can they print them? |
[1983.00 --> 1986.00] When will that be delivered to the factory, to be packaged, to... |
[1986.00 --> 1987.00] Like, there's a lot that... |
[1987.00 --> 1993.00] And if you're a business entity with limited resources, and you're just gonna take this workload and spread it out over time. |
[1993.00 --> 1997.00] So, the way to do that is to have the old one and then the next one. |
[1997.00 --> 2016.00] Not to mention that there's things like FCC validation that you, or UL certification that you have to go through for any electronic device, and you're gonna, you're just gonna kill yourself trying to do everything all at once and then, like, so try to, like, design all the hardware all at once and then try to build all the software. |
[2016.00 --> 2017.00] Okay, well that'd be good. |
[2017.00 --> 2018.00] Well, they did do all the hardware all at once. |
[2018.00 --> 2019.00] Okay, okay, okay, yes, that they did. |
[2019.00 --> 2023.00] And then try to build all the software and all the UI crap and do all the validation at once and then... |
[2023.00 --> 2024.00] And marketing. |
[2024.00 --> 2028.00] Deal with all the submissions for, like, regulatory approval all at once. |
[2028.00 --> 2029.00] Then do all the marketing all at once. |
[2029.00 --> 2030.00] No, it's stupid. |
[2030.00 --> 2031.00] So, this makes sense. |
[2031.00 --> 2034.00] Do you think they're working on a little tiny N64? |
[2034.00 --> 2035.00] I hope so. |
[2035.00 --> 2036.00] Just for the cuteness factor. |
[2036.00 --> 2039.00] N64 would be pretty cool. |
[2039.00 --> 2045.00] Although SNES is, as the, as sort of the console of my childhood actually, that is my favorite console of all time. |
[2045.00 --> 2048.00] But there are other childhoods that came after yours. |
[2048.00 --> 2050.00] Yeah, but I don't care about those. |
[2050.00 --> 2051.00] Mmm. |
[2051.00 --> 2055.00] So, my, my nostalgia has been totally taken care of at this point. |
[2055.00 --> 2056.00] Follow-up question. |
[2056.00 --> 2065.00] If they did a re-release of a little N64, which means they're manufacturing new controllers, do you think they would still have the joystick that had the string that got loose? |
[2065.00 --> 2069.00] You know, the N64 controller joystick got loose over time and it sucked? |
[2069.00 --> 2073.00] Or do you think that they would modernize that, that implementation? |
[2073.00 --> 2078.00] And if they did, would it change how you played those old games? |
[2080.00 --> 2081.00] You know what? |
[2081.00 --> 2085.00] I don't know if Nintendo would admit they ever did it wrong. |
[2085.00 --> 2091.00] And, if they did it differently, wouldn't it kill the nostalgia? |
[2094.00 --> 2096.00] Like, I, okay, so... |
[2096.00 --> 2097.00] This is really gonna be polarizing. |
[2097.00 --> 2098.00] This is almost straw poll. |
[2098.00 --> 2100.00] Okay, let's, let's head over the straw poll. |
[2100.00 --> 2102.00] I think this is gonna be divisive. |
[2102.00 --> 2110.00] Like, if you're gonna nostalgia out on N64, do you wanna go to your buddy's house and he gives you the crappier controller that's loose and you're like, ugh! |
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