"We Need To Sell At Least 75" - Nuon Game 'Ring Flyer' Needs Your Help To Make It "Worthwhile"

I remember reading about the Nuon in Edge magazine back in the day but always thought it was vapourware I didn’t know it was actually released 😂

The community for Jaguar and Lynx stuff is far larger than I thought it would be. And than it should be

@Zeebor15 The Lynx community was like THE homebrew community. They've been making new games since the console was literally still out, it's insane.

@Poodlestargenerica disturbing

@Poodlestargenerica Yes, it's insane and so are we.

JagFest was great! So much fun to have passionate fans all sharing their favorite systems together.

I just put my order in for it about a week ago after picking up my first nuon. It's really cool to see an actual new game, hopefully they can get enough support for it.

The thing is with a game on a platform that is so niche you should really have seen if there was a market out there for a game to begin with. People aren't simply going to pay that much money for a game even if it's at a discount for a system they probably don't own I have also seen the game in action and it looks like a glorified tech demo. It's fantastic that they are releasing a game for it but there is probably no market for it even with collectors that have the vast majority of what was originally released anyway.

Well that's... Kinda sad

@Zenszulu I suspect these numbers are fairly standard for new releases on obscure platforms, and I doubt very much that Songbird have entered into this aiming to make piles of money.

They're really just fans who are offering a service to the community they're a part of and hoping to at least break even. That's no one's problem, of course, but I appreciate that companies out there do this kind of thing. If they don't, no one else will.

@Jellyscare I am not saying they expected to make loads of money but they should have expected it would be a struggle just to break even seeing as they didn't know how big of a market it was to begin with. One thing I don't like is then begging people to buy their game to support them and future releases. Even on such an obscure system you should at least aim to make your software as unique as you can rather than just expecting people to buy it because it's new software for something that has just about none to begin with. Like I said it's great they are making a game for it but they should have been prepared for possibility that their aren't enough collectors out there in the first place who would probably just buy it and never play it even if they did get a copy.

I'm at a crossroads on this one. I own a Nuon and I actually want to buy it but the one Nuon adapter that gives me any hope of playing it wirelessly (Nuon to SNES) has been sold out and not restocked. I haven't bought the game because I can't buy the adapter.

@Zenszulu

"One thing I don't like is then begging people to buy their game to support them and future releases."

honestly I prefer this to most marketing campagins (aka begging people to buy their game.) at least it's honest, transparent, and the cost of it isnt built into the product. 👍

I wouldn't call it begging. The headline comment was made in a very small Discord community of Nuon collectors - about 150 members - and was more updating them on the situation and encouraging them to help spread the word.

The problem is ultimately you're asking for people who have a limited amount of units to buy the game. If there was more units in circulation there would be more of a chance of the game being bought.

@Zeebor15 Why is that such a bad thing?

@slider1983 I mean the goal being THAT low and they still can't hit it

@Zeebor15 See the response above. Depends how many units are currently being used by people.