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Don't like the concept much and not sure how well the games will run. The licensed Sega consoles were based on emulation and often didn't feel quite the same as true megadrive games for example. The sound was worse.

If I was conceiving a NES console like this I probably would have gone for LED projector output. The NES game resolutuion was very low and such a projector design is incredibly cheap. They could have still produced this console with projector output and sold for the same $60 price. That product could have been taken anywhere and not need to be connected to an external display and easily battery powered for long hours. It would have been a greater novelty item plus with both wired controllers and built in display output it could have kept the gamepad response lag down to CRT levels making the games feel more responsive as per the original NES console connected to a CRT display.

People will soon get bored of the 30 games, be unimpressed with the graphics etc. This is for collectors, nostalgia/retro fans only. I think it will sell well enough to justify its existence but I don't see high numbers at all. I think it will sell higher than the Sega or Atari retro consoles purely because its an actual Nintendo product and based on one of the most successful consoles.

Also surprised how large it is. You could make a NES console nowadays like that the size of a Matchbox. If Nintendo had made it smaller it could be more a display item for cabinets too and if super nintendo and N64 versions are produced later they could all be displayed together on people's mantel pieces etc. The circuit board inside is probably tiny with the hdmi connector taking up a huge part of it.