Gadgetory

ladies and gentlemen it has officially happened Nintendo has announced the SNES classic edition I got to say overall are pretty happy with it I mean I do have some misgivings here and there but the benefits from what's been announced definitely outweigh them so let's go over the basics really quick it's going to be coming out on September 29th maybe at $80 rather than 60 20 bucks more than the NES classic but the reason for that is that this one will be shipping with two controllers which just makes so much sense you know I think they're really big selling point of the NES classic edition and now the SNES is that it's a one-stop place to play a lot of your favorite retro games so a weird thing with the NES was that shipping with one controller meant you were kind of stuck sometimes you know a lot of those games are best done in coop or vs. and being sold separately oftentimes they would sell out so you buy the system can't find another controller now you're stuck with only the one player game so shipping with two makes a lot of sense what is still kind of weird though is the cable length now there's been rumors circulating that Nintendo is not going to be shipping it with a three foot long cable acting yes which was pretty much unusable and they are now upgrading to five feet which is better now of course the biggest thing though is what games are going to be on the system and that's where things are a little bit more mixed primarily because it's only going to have a library of 21 games nine games less than the NES classic which feels like a weird choice to me too because I feel like the SNES has the densest selection of strong Nintendo titles and yet you're going to give it the smaller library for this release on the other hand though all the games on it are really strong choices I mean looking at this list there's not a single one that makes me go oh why do they pick that why is that there there's obviously some games that I want added in but everything here are strong choices now when it comes up the game is missing the biggest most glaring omission to me is Chrono Trigger one of the best RPGs ever made one of the best SNES games period and it's not going to be on the system which is especially awkward because there's already a number of other Square Enix titles on here like Super Mario RPG Final Fantasy 3 which is actually follow my Nexus 6 it's really confusing with localization the point is core trigger is one of the best games to come out on the system and it is not there I would also have loved to have seen Donkey Kong Country 2 on here instead of Donkey Kong Country 1 but I get why they made a choice there's also the fact that there is not a single side-scrolling beat'em up in sight for the classic which was a great Jean on the SNES I mean we had three different final fight games a Battletoads game TMNT turtles in time one of the best beat'em ups i've ever made and it's not making its way to the classic now it's really interesting about this library isn't what few games are missing that I wish were there but one game that actually somehow made its way onto it Star Fox - a game that actually never released anywhere now the reason for this is that Star Fox 2 was cancelled when it was already finished and developed but intended decided to hold back because the Institute for was coming soon the ps1 was already out and basically any 3d games that came out in the SNES would not look good in comparison to what the ps1 could do with its hardware so they decided to back off we didn't get Star Fox 2 and instead got Star Fox 64 which was an amazing game there have been some leaked versions of Star Fox 2 that have been playable in ROM form but this is going to be the first time we actually get the chance to play the final complete version of the game which is a really great form of fan service that Nintendo's doing for people now of course the big fear with the system that everyone is having is the fact that the NES was horrible when it came to how much supply was around everywhere and those things sold out like that classic edition I mean those things sold out like that and there was never seeming to be enough for all the demand so people are wondering is this going to happen again with the SNES well Nintendo has actually given an official statement about this in response to Kotaku in that they are going to be making more SNES than they did the NES but just like with the SNES it is going to be a limited release they are going to be producing and selling them officially from September 29th til the end of the year with no plans for what's happening after that so there's still definitely be a scramble for the system but hopefully it's not quite as bad as it was with the NES classic as of right now there is no official news for a super famicom classic edition coming out in Japan but Amazon UK has already put up pre-orders for their version of the classic Edition which historically actually uses the same shell as the family which is really cool so I'm going to put a link for that down below in description as soon as the US version goes up even though the plugs disappear immediately I'll add that to description as well I'll see you guys later