Update: In a statement provided to Polygon, Nintendo said it is not "providing specific numbers, but we will produce significantly more units of Super NES Classic Edition than we did of NES Classic Edition." The company said the new hardware will be produced at least through the end of 2017 and said "at this time, we have nothing to announce regarding any possible shipments beyond this year."







Update #2: Hours after the Super NES Classic Edition was announced, its Japanese counterpart, the Nintendo Classic Mini: Super Famicom, was unveiled. Like the American and European versions, the miniature Super Famicom will come packed with 21 games, but five of those differ. Japanese players will miss out on Earthbound, Super Punch-Out!!, Super Castlevania IV, Kirby's Dream Course, and Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting. In their place: Panel de Pon (released in the US as Tetris Attack), Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem, Legend of the Mystical Ninja, Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers, and Super Soccer.

Japan's version will launch a few days later, on October 5.

Update #3: Nintendo has confirmed to Kotaku's Jason Schreier that the SNES Classic Edition will sport five foot long controller cords. That is two feet longer than the too-short cords on the NES Classic Edition, but about three feet shorter than the cords on the original SNES controllers.

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Following the recently discontinued NES Classic Edition , Nintendo has officially announced a long-rumored Super Nintendo Entertainment System Classic Edition follow-up will be available on September 29 in a $80 package that includes two wired controllers.

The highlight of the package is the first official release of Star Fox 2, which Nintendo's announcement notes "was created during the Super NES era but never released… anywhere!" While an emulatable, leaked prototype version of Star Fox 2 has been floating around online for years, Creator Dylan Cuthbert confirmed in 2015 that development on a finished version of the game was completed just before the project was cancelled, reportedly to avoid competition with the coming Nintendo 64. The SNES Classic will be the first chance gamers have to try this full version of the title.

Unlike the NES Classic, which sold $10 controllers on top of the $60 base package, the SNES Classic comes packaged with two controllers. Even so, only five of the included titles include true simultaneous multiplayer gameplay, with a handful of others allowing for two players to alternate play. The Classic Controller and Classic Controller Pro designed for the Wii and Wii U will also work on the SNES Classic Edition, much like its predecessor.

Of the 21 included titles, a full 14 were published by Nintendo itself. Three games from Capcom, two from Konami, and two from Square Enix round out the package.

No details about a Japanese "Super Famicom Classic Edition" have yet been announced, but the European version of the console will feature the same games with a slightly different casing and controller design to match the region's version of the original console, as seen in the gallery above. (The Super Famicom Mini was later announced, see update above.)

The plug-and-play, HDMI-enabled system will include the following games:

Contra III: The Alien Wars*

Donkey Kong Country**

EarthBound

Final Fantasy III

F-ZERO

Kirby Super Star*

Kirby’s Dream Course**

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Mega Man X

Secret of Mana*

Star Fox

Star Fox 2 (previously unreleased!)

Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting*

Super Castlevania IV

Super Ghouls ’n Ghosts

Super Mario Kart*

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

Super Mario World**

Super Metroid

Super Punch-Out!!

Yoshi’s Island

(All games are single player unless noted with a * for simulataneous two-player games or a ** for alternating two-player games)

The NES Classic Edition became an instant sellout hit when it launched last November , going on to sell 1.5 million units in the 2016 calendar year and 2.3 million units total before being unceremoniously discontinued in April. In a recent interview with Ars Technica, Nintendo Senior Director of Corporate Communications Charlie Scibetta allowed that the company "could have done a better job communicating that was gonna be a limited run. It was supposed to be for that holiday. We extended it actually because demand was so much, then we stopped producing it."

In the wake of retail shortages, after-market prices for the NES Classic Edition on eBay shot up 200 percent over MSRP . Today, eBay prices for the plug-and-play system tend to range from $150 to $300, depending on condition and the presence of a box.

No word from Nintendo yet on how long it plans to produce the SNES Classic Edition, or in what quantities (See update above).

Teardowns found that the NES Classic Edition ran on a 1.2Ghz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU that was more than up to the challenge of emulating decades-old console games. While no tech specs have been announced for the SNES Classic Edition, we can only assume the innards will be similar this time around.

When the SNES Classic Edition won't have any official way to load additional games past the 21 built in to the system itself, hackers were eventually able to jailbreak the NES Classic Edition to run everything from Linux to sideloaded NES games to MAME and other classic console emulation.

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