Sony did it again, playstation classic mini...it remember you at something? right, mini version from nes and snes from nintendo. not the first time...i'm a big sony fan but i'm not always happy when sony comes up with ideas from nintendo...do you think sony should try their own thing or is it o.k that sony comes up with ideas from nintendo?

Zero shits given. Throughout the entire history of our species we have copied from the past. Sometimes straight up copy, more often copy with refinement and additions.

BTW Nintendo didn't do it first.

Not sure I'd call it copying just Nintendo. Sony seems to me they'll emulate anything if it has shown it can be successful.

If there's a market for something, Sony, being a conglomerate, may enter it. In this case, the mini-console market.

Well, some copying is more embarassing than other. The PS Classic is an idea that makes sense regardless of who came up with it first, which was not Nintendo, by the way.

I mean you can't deny they haven't done it before at least most recently with their own "Classic" branded console, but's just all fun and games to joke about. No need to take it too seriously or get needless worked up about it.

Maybe in some cases if you use the word "inspired" by Nintendo it comes off less threatening.

But all company's band wagon on trends no matter the source, and yes Sony has done this with the source of the trend yes being from Nintendo.

Tbf, it's not like Sony always ends up being successful when they do this.

Copying what is selling is what the video game industry is all about. It's easy money. If consumers are willing to pay a lot more than what the production costs are out of pure nostalgia it only makes business sense to exploit that sentimentality for easy profits.

Sony's always been way too obvious when taking Nintendo's ideas, and the PS Classic is no different. I don't mind the fact that Sony is making a 'classic' console, but I have a problem with the way they're marketing it. The way they're marketing the PS Classic is stupidly similar to the way Nintendo marketed the NES and SNES Classic. The promotional image they're using of a hand holding the console just proves my point.

Copying, refining, improving.... I call all of it progress. Good on Sony, Nintendo, MS, Sega, and everyone else for moving gaming forward.

My mother bought the Atari Flashback back in 2010, and I remember seeing them at target years before that. Nintendo did not invent the mini console. Sega and Namco did similar products long before Nintendo as well. Nintendo just happened to see the most success with it.

PS Move is a grey area because Sony was demoing and parenting the move controller back in 2001; it just never came to be anything because it didn’t seem practical at the time. Either way, the idea predates Nintendo’s Wii.

PSASBR is the closest thing to a genuine copy, but at least it made use of some unique gameplay mechanics. Plus, the idea of party fighter featuring non-Nintendo characters, but instead Sony’s much larger and more diverse roster, was and still is an excellent idea. People calling that a rip off need to learn that not everyone is infatuated with Nintendo’s limited roster, and that there’s nothing wrong with being interested in a similar concept featuring characters like Kraros and Nathan Drake. There’s plenty of room in the industry for both games to exist and be successful.

I mean Sega and Atari did it before Nintendo....

Yes the PS Classic only exists because of new/SNES classic success but they're not copying Nintendo's idea,.

All companies should take influence and ideas from others, else we'd have nothing.