Developer: Das sind zu wenig NES Minis die wir produzieren…
Nintendo: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
he following info comes from a dev team interview via Famitsu, as translated by NintendoEverything…
– very few staff believed that NES Classic Edition / Famicom Mini would be a hit
– with Switch coming out soon, most staff at the company weren’t really paying attention to the NES Classic
– Yamato, a former developer and now a manager of the sales department, said that it would make fans happy
– Yamato strongly suggested there should be a TV commercial
– since the product itself was met with stock shortages, they could barely air ads
– the original plan was only to show the title screen of the various games on the menu UI
– dealing with copyrights for game boxes would be difficult
– when they made the menu with game title screens, they noticed almost everything was black, as most title screens were black
– when this was seen by other devs at Nintendo, they asked why game boxes weren’t shown
– Nintendo’s Kazuyoshi Nishi had a tough time convincing third-parties to work with Nintendo on adding game boxes
– everyone finally gave their permission to feature the original boxes in the end
– the game icons are square-shaped so that both American and Japanese boxart can fit
– when the NES Classic Edition was heading towards the end of development, Takao Shimizu from Nintendo’s planning and development department strongly suggested that there would be stock shortages
– by this point, Nintendo had already decided how much they were going to produce for launch
https://gonintendo.com/stories/292981-nes-classic-edition-almost-didn-t-feature-game-boxes-on-the-user
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