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archer9234 said:
S.Peelman said:
To be fair this is supposed to be a nostalgic experience, you playing your games just like in the good old days. That means sitting on the floor with your system in front of you. Not saying I wouldn't have liked longer cords, I would obviously, but I get the idea they're going with.

What are you talking about. The NES controller cords were longer than that. Only the Famicom had cords that short.

I explained what they are probably thinking and what they are going for. It was as such back then and it likely is now. That's it. I think my earlier posts were clear enough, so I don't exactly feel like having a debate, and whether or not anyone, including me, likes the specifics of this products is a different story entirely.



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Well that's certainly replicating the famicom experience lol



Hiku said:
S.Peelman said:

I explained what they are probably thinking and what they are going for. It was as such back then and it likely is now. That's it. I think my earlier posts were clear enough, so I don't exactly feel like having a debate, and whether or not anyone, including me, likes the specifics of this products is a different story entirely.

What you said would only make sense if the cable was as long as the original NES cable though. But it's not, and it makes even less sense because the average TV today is much bigger than it was back then, and the average distance between the TV and the viewer has increased. In other words, the 3M NES controller more adequately reached the viewer than it would today.
It may have been your experience that people mostly sat on the floor to play NES, but in my experience this only occured when the NES was outside of the living room, where there was no sofa. Typically in a boys room with an even smaller TV than the one in the living room.
The 3M controller cable plus the length of the video cable hooked up to the TV was more than adequate to reach any sofa I ever encountered. This 1M controller coupled with what I presume will be a 1M HDMI cable is much much shorter than what you experienced in the NES days.

Sigh. I don't know why this is so difficult to understand for you people. Or the last line of my post for that matter.

That was the point back then and they're replicating it now. Or at least hoping to. Hence short cables. The end. It's totally irrelevant how long those cables were, if anything they made them too long for their proposed purpose back then.



Shouldv'e been wireless



Hiku said:

No, they would not make the cable 3 times shorter if they want to replicate something from back then. They would be at least as long. (Longer by today's standards with larger TV's.) If the cable length is how they replicate an experience according to you, then you cannot go on to call the cable length irrelevant.

And it should not be difficult to understand that the purpose of that promotional image was to capture the emotions on their faces, along with the game screen, in the same shot. That's why it's zoomed in.

Here's a shot from a NES commercial from 1987.



I'm not going to use this to claim that their intention was for you to sit on a sofa. You could sit wherever you wanted.

I don't know what to say anymore. I never said the cable is the thing used to replicate this nostalgia experience, I said that the cable length is the result of that. And oh, where's that NES? On the table. In reach of the player and his friend beside him. Exactly.

Anyway, I'm done here. It's like I'm talking "alien" apparently.



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Hopefully somebody will do controller extender cables, like they did for the Gamecube.



S.Peelman said:
archer9234 said:

What are you talking about. The NES controller cords were longer than that. Only the Famicom had cords that short.

I explained what they are probably thinking and what they are going for. It was as such back then and it likely is now. That's it. I think my earlier posts were clear enough, so I don't exactly feel like having a debate, and whether or not anyone, including me, likes the specifics of this products is a different story entirely.

I never put my console next to me. It was on my TV stand area. The closest I got to that. Was when I had to hook up a game console, to another TV. For temp use. This just causes issues, because it forces someone, like with a TV mounted on a wall, have to buy an extra long HDMI cable.



Weid decision, but the HDMI cable is very long, so the same thing.



It's a little bit silly how many posts in this thread are essentially "I wasn't interested in the NES Mini but if I was then this would be a deal breaker."



I think this problem can be easily fixed.



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