It reminded me more of Sonic Adventure 2's opening song that plays during the character introduction/title cinematic.
1-3 million I would say. It's packed with all the best first party games. Let's say minimum a million device, with 3 million possible.
So far the most interesting part might be the modding chances; i can see people making a "portable NES" out of it quite easily since it runs on USB power and it's very small... Probably it PCB is as tiny as the controller board Would make much more sense, still it's not as cute
I wonder if even Disney would be willing to part with as much cash as they'd have to Nintendo, it'd certainly be one of their biggest purchases ever. But Lucas sold to Disney as they were the only ones with the raw **cash** and not stock options and cash that could buy him out, so maybe. Nintendo have $10.5b in the bank and $6b in real estate, equipment and investments and then you have to count the value of their IPs too. I guess you wouldn't necessarily pay for all the assets, rather pay for the current owners to hand over ownership to you (that cash kinda has to stay in the business). It'd still probably be one of their biggest ever purchases. I don't think they'll be able to take any more people to court, either. I don't think any company has won against an emulator writer, at least one who didn't use official materials to reverse engineer or whatever, so you should be safe. Maybe the cemu devs who were developing for a live system and charging for the latest versions through patreon, but probably still not. This is a good move for Nintendo, they will probably sell millions of them this xmas worldwide.
When I get this 'm going to see if it can be hacked. Thing is there are so many good games for the system and just releasing those 30 seems lame.
Can't believe it's November already. Anyway this thing will be out soon and some technical details have been revealed by reddit users: SoC: Allwinner R16 (4x Cortex A7, Mali400MP2 GPU) RAM: SKHynix (256MB DDR3) Flash: Spansion 512MB SLC NAND flash, TSOP48 PMU: AXP223 https://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/5avo9m/nes_classic_hardware_if_this_picture_is_true/ Picture of the mainboard is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/5avo9m/nes_classic_hardware_if_this_picture_is_true/ It looks like it will not be easy to add games to this thing.
Hey, it's not BGA - that's a plus in my book. I just hope Nintendo won't feel the need to lock this thing down too much, seeing how it doesn't do online. Gonna be fun.
http://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/wakiba/find/1023294.html Here's some pictures of the Famicom Mini, well an empty plastic container that the finished product should resemble.
The software powering both versions comes from NERD, the Nintendo European R&D studio, based in Paris, France: https://www.nerd.nintendo.com/ Don't know if you're familiar with them but they're always involved with the tricky stuff.
