Nintendo announce NES mini...59.99 retro gaming HDMI classic NES console Nov 11

[BRiT]

Nope. It's smarter and easier to make profit off selling software only than it is to sell hardware.

 

[bunge]

If nintendo was smart, they´d...

...have built enough hardware to meet demand.

 

[temesgen]

still don't understand why they didn't include access to an online store, they could have sold a decent amount of vintage software....

 

[Rangers]

Nope. It's smarter and easier to make profit off selling software only than it is to sell hardware.

Apple might disagree...just saying.

And before you say it, yeah they make big $ on app store, but before that (and maybe currently) they made more on hardware. They are a hardware company first.

Which doesn't really apply to video games, but yeah a significant part of Nintendo's profits can be hardware. I'm sure they banked on hardware in Wii era.

 

[BRiT]

That might work for Apple, but Nintendo is no Apple. Nintendo can not command the 200% to 300% Brand Tax that Apple can.

 

[milk]

NES mini is not your typical console or gaming product. These rules of thumb might not apply. Any info on this thing's BOM?