Nintendo Says No N64 Classic - Reggie says eat shit

[Pickle Pirate]

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/15/18097993/n64-classic-rumor-nintendo-denial

2016 had the NES Classic, 2017 had the SNES Classic, and 2018 has the PlayStation Classic, so a Nintendo 64 Classic can’t be too far away, right? Don’t count on it. In an interview with Kotaku, Nintendo of America CEO Reggie Fils-Aimé says that while he “would not ever rule something out... what I can tell you is certainly that’s not in our planning horizon.”

“We were clear when we did the first two Classic series that, for us, these were limitedttime opportunities that were a way for us as a business to bridge from the conclusion of Wii U as a hardware system to the launch of Nintendo Switch,” says Fils-Aimé. “That was the very strategic reason we launched the NES Classic system.”

“So while consumers may have been anticipating something, we view these as limited-time opportunities. We’ve also now been very clear that as the consumer looks forward to engaging with our classic content that is going to happen more and more with the subscription service.”

Dreams of reliving the mid-to-late-’90s console wars all over again will have to wait, then. The lack of an N64 Classic would indeed be easier to swallow if you could simply play Ocarina of Time on a Switch through Nintendo’s online subscription. The trouble with that approach, of course, is that Nintendo has been very slow to roll out its offerings.

Currently subscribers to the Switch’s online service have access to around 30 original and tweaked versions of NES games, but no other systems are available, and Nintendo isn’t selling downloadable games through its usual Virtual Console platform either. But Fils-Aimé hints that more content will be on the way. “As we look to the future,” he says, “our subscription service, NSO, Nintendo Switch Online is going to be the place where you can play our classic content,” adding “We’ll see what comes next” when pressed on whether this will go beyond the NES.

TL/DR - “We made the Classic systems to rape your wallets, and we didn’t make enough shekels to make it worth doing a third time. Have fun paying a subscription to play a limited library of titles you little bags of shit.”

 

[Bassomatic]

They already gave us remade goldeneye so why would you need to get an N64 again?

 

[XYZpdq]

they couldn't get those damn glide wrapper plugin whatevers working either, eh?

 

[RG 448]

Meh, I still have my N64 and games. I can’t be the only one who got SNES Classic for no other reason than I missed out on having one as a kid.

 

[A Hot Potato]

There is a Nintendo 64 classic, it's called Project 64.

 

[MasterDisaster]

The N64 really didn't have a large enough library to justify needing a mini. Sure, there's a lot of classics like Orcarina, Mario and Smash but half the best stuff was Rare and you can already get those in the Rare Collection.

 

[Inklings]

I wonder if that recent lawsuit had anything to do with this and Nintendo is waiting till it blows over

 

[Shokew]

Nintendo has no excuse for missing out on easy money like this, honestly. Then Again, this is why Emulators and Roms are your best friends in any situation like this. It's all about reading the tutorials to get things right.

 

[Hal]

Just let me play Gamecube games on my switch Nintendo...

 

[UE 558]

I'm pretty sure this is just business-ese for "MS Didn't want to give up any of their Rare Replay titles"

 

[Guts Gets Some]

How about just port old games people still want to play to the damn Switch instead, instead of this onslaught of terrible indie games?

 

[TheCapybara]

Pff, joke's on them, I've still got my old N64 anyways.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

My dog pissed all over my N64 and broke it

 

[drtoboggan]

Reggie is a faggot.

 

[Polyboros]

There is a Nintendo 64 classic, it's called Project 64.

Project 64 doesn't run so great, which I think is the hold up.

 

[Exceptionally Exceptional]

The N64 really didn't have a large enough library to justify needing a mini. Sure, there's a lot of classics like Orcarina, Mario and Smash but half the best stuff was Rare and you can already get those in the Rare Collection.

Considering that the NES and SNES classic minis had an insultingly paltry selection of titles, (the NES mini had a mere 30 games out of over 700 available) I hardly think the total number of available titles is an issue here.

 

[MasterDisaster]

Considering that the NES and SNES classic minis had an insultingly paltry selection of titles, (the NES mini had a mere 30 games out of over 700 available) I hardly think the total number of available titles is an issue here.

A ton of those games were owned by other companies. The classic consoles are made up of the most popular games on said comsole; I think you'd be hard pressed to find 30 N64 games worth it.

 

[Tramadol]

I'd buy a N64 Classic in an instant if it had WWF No Mercy.

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

The NES and SNES had plenty of first party material to put on the classics the N64 is the first where you have a big portion of the library that people remember fondly being either second party (rare) or games that wouldn't be feasible to get the licensing rights to put on a pre-loaded console (the Aki WCW/WWF games, NFL blitz, Hangtime etc.) So yeah not really worth it to make a classic N64 for the was 15 odd first party games released in the west just to have people complain about "durr where conker durr?".

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

I'd buy a N64 Classic in an instant if it had WWF No Mercy.

What if it was all the Aki made games but no Chris Benoit?