Why Nintendo Discontinued The NES Classic Mini

Why Nintendo Discontinued The NES Classic Mini And Will Do The Same With The Snes Classic Mini If It Ever Was To Materialize.

The NES Classic was just used to ‘ frame ‘ Nintendo as a video game brand properly so people who grew up with the 8bit Nintendo
would thrust the company again after the WiiU debacle and having left hardcore gamers out in the cold. So people would thrust the Switch and actually go out and get it in drones.

But framing only works short term so discontinuing the NES Classic, which was just a tool to ramp up traffic towards the Switch, is a deliberate corporate strategy.

I reckon Nintendo is afraid of competing against itself with the NES Classic mini and the Switch being out in the same market. The
very reason why they shouldn’t put a SNES out, unless they want to do the same thing again ‘ framing ‘ Nintendo as the brand that brought us the Snes/Superfamicom and have the 16 bit generation thrust Nintendo again and flock towards the Switch.

Of course it has a backlash – but it probably is calculated in. Nintendo doesn’t care about its fans, it cares about profit. Many big (Japanese)
companies do.

Probably won’t end up with any of the NES or SNES Classics. I’ll just flick on my Raspberry Pi or the old real deal that still sits in my
gameroom.

My 2 Cents.

– Mark

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