@Captain_Gonru "It makes no sense to me."

Really? It's 'pretty much the only thing they've done in 4 years that does make sense to me. People will still pick up 1 or 2 VC games at $5 a pop, but my guess is sales were slowing. I mean they had to be slowing right, 12.5mil Wii U sales, how much VC is that? Wii U hardly had any VC at all as it was. And where was the promised Gamecube VC? I think w'ell still get VC of N64 and newer, they'll make this and a SNES Mini holiday 2017 or 2018.

This is also brilliant b/c it keeps them in the news this holiday while people wait for NX in March. If everybody bought a PS4 or X1 this holiday who was buying a NX in March? This way Ntineod gets to stay in the news, every BF ad will have 1 of these for $29.99, people will buy them and a few may even wait on NX.

OK, a bit of deja vu there, sorry if you already read it.

Oh, and if you are thinking - of course I agree w/ it, I've been waiting for them to do this for 2 years - well duh.

Actually maybe only 1 year, found this comment from July 2015 -

Nintendo isn't going 3rd party, their going Jakks Pacific.

http://jakksstore.mybigcommerce.com/nintendo/

And 3 weeks later:

"But there's still this thought in my head that Nintendo goes after them w/ NX as a nostalgia machine. Nothing they have done of late makes me think PS4 killer. Rusty Baseball, Pokémon Rumble and Shuffle. 2DS. DeNA. Where's Zelda? Why does Star fox look so graphically inferior to Xenoblade X? Why port XC to 3DS? Kid I car us and Luigis Mansion 2 on handhelds. SSB on 3DS. MK7. Why make a high powered machine when the entire company is built around low power? NX will be a 3DS w/ HDMI out more than a portable Wii U, even if it looks like a Wii U."

How right I was. Well half right, NES Mini isn't NX, but it is coming out first.

OK last one, post #75, you know, maybe that 20mil # was for NES Mini after all?

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/07/rumour_nintendo_nx_shipping_this_time_next_year_20_million_sales_targeted_in_first_12_months

This may have actually been my first post on the subject:

"Now no company wants to build the next Ouya, but Nintendo has a large back catalogue of NES, SNES, N64 and GameCube games, very few of which have appeared on Wii U or 3DS. Nintendo must also be aware of the proliferation of dedicated devices for playing Sega and Atari games. Nintendo probably figures they could sell a home device on their back catalog alone. Where are all the GameCube VC games?"

Looks like @Peach64 deserves some credit as well post #3. Hey Peach, you think it's possible some of those old rumours were actually about this NES Mini box?