Sorry, gamer. The SNES Mini Classic is not for you.

The SNES Mini is not for you, the gamer who has never stopped following the gaming-industry. It is for the lapsed gamer who may have had an SNES with one game, or the Genesis-owner who always wanted one.

When 3D consoles like Sega Saturn, Sony PlayStation, and Nintendo 64 hit the scene, I didn't really care for them. If it weren't for a cousin who showed me Super Mario 64 on Thanksgiving in 1996, I might never have gone back into gaming. The SNES Mini is for these people that never got back into gaming after the SNES.

"What if I am a young Nintendo-fan who never had an SNES and wants one?" Sorry, the SNES Mini is not for you, either. I would suggest buying a real SNES or looking into emulation.

Nintendo's goal with the SNES Mini is to raise brand-awareness in retail stores. In turn, it will have a transitive effect and spur them to buy 2DSes, 3DSes, and NSes, along with many first-party games, which generates most of their profits.

In an ideal world, gamers who never stopped caring about videogames would step aside, and let the lapsed gamers have first dibs on SNES minis. Let the SNES Mini perform its ultimate purpose. Of course, we don't live in an ideal world, and we also have scalpers to deal with. Many people on the fence about buying one will pull the trigger because they won't want to pay a scalper later on when they change their minds.

In a few months, when we can't find an SNES Mini, we must ask ourselves if buying one is really the right thing to do.

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