Many frequent readers of this website know that basically every person involved with it has been looking forward to the RetroN5, which finally releases this month. Little did anyone know, however, that there is one big fan of the system that nobody expected: Nintendo itself.

Ryan at The Gamer's Lounge got to sit down for his annual interview with Reggie Fils-Aime, where he proceeded to gush about the joy Nintendo is finding in the existence of the RetroN5.

"Unfortunately, we all know the Wii U hasn't sold as well as we wanted it to. But we at Nintendo always have our ears to the ground, and the perfect storm has arisen: with the huge preorder numbers the RetroN5 is seeing, combined with the recent clearance blowout sales at the local Radio Shack, we realized that by blowing the dust off the old cartridge molds and melting down some leftover Wii Zappers and other leftover Wii clip-on accessories to form the cases, these reproduction cartridges basically pay for themselves in production!"