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It dosent really make sense though, its not like engineering a replacement SOC+board that contains some NES roms plus an emulator is exactly a massive engineeri
by throwaway2048 10y ago
It dosent really make sense though, its not like engineering a replacement SOC+board that contains some NES roms plus an emulator is exactly a massive engineering challenge. Why not just continue it with some new chips?
- monocasa 10y agoI wouldn't be surprised if they didn't already have a team working on it's successor: an internet connected mini console that only plays virtual console games off their store. You could even have a custom common plug on the front and sell a bunch of generations of controllers for some obscene amount of money and know that their'd be a lot of people who'd get four each of at least NES, SNES, and N64 controllers. $40 a pop and that's $480 right there. Although it's Nintendo and they're kind of known for not catching some of the easy throws.
- runevault 10y agoI bet they are going to focus on getting the Switch Virtual console up and running and guide people that way.
- geezerjay 10y ago> its not like engineering a replacement SOC+board that contains some NES roms plus an emulator is exactly a massive engineering challenge If margins on a custom SOC+board are razor-thin, it would be idiocy from the company's pov to add cost and complexity to a project just to result in a decimation of the product's profitability.