NES Classic Edition
NES Classic Edition is a dedicated home video game console by Nintendo, that emulates the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It launched on November 10, 2016, in Australia and Japan, and November 11, 2016, in North America and Europe. Aesthetically, the console is a miniature replica of the NES, and it includes a static library of 30 built-in games from the licensed NES library, supporting save states for all of them.
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| Developer | Nintendo PTD |
| Manufacturer | Nintendo |
| Type | Dedicated home video game console |
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| Lifespan | 2016–2018 |
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| Discontinued |
December 2018 (Relaunch) |
| Units sold | 3.6 million (as of June 30, 2018) |
| Media | Internal flash memory |
| System on a chip | Allwinner R16, Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A7 |
| Memory | 256 MB of DDR3 RAM |
| Storage | 512 MB NAND Flash TSOP48 |
| Graphics | Mali-400 MP |
| Controller input | 2 controller ports |
| Successor | Super NES Classic Edition |
Nintendo produced and sold about 2.3 million NES Classic Editions from November 2016 through April 2017, with shipments selling out nearly immediately. In April 2017, Nintendo announced they were discontinuing the product, leading to consumer confusion, and incidents of greatly increased pricing among private sellers. Due to the demand of the NES Classic, and the success of the Super NES Classic Edition console, Nintendo re-introduced a limited run of the NES Classic on June 29, 2018. Production was discontinued again in December 2018.