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bonzobanana on 15 July 2016
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Miyamotoo said:
bonzobanana said:
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.


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.

I'm pretty sure it want have any sound or fps problems, Nintendo pay attention on things like those espacialy for VC games, you already have VC games and they are working great.

Who care if people bored after 30 games, this is $60 console not $300, and for that price has great value, basicly full price of one AAA game is $60. Just number of collectors, nostalgia/retro fans and Nintendo fans is huge, but definitely some casuals will bought this also because it's cool and cheap, great for holiday present.

How large it is!? Its smaller than NES cartridge, its have size of 4-inch mobile phone with only bigger height, its basically size of NES controller like you can see on pictures. It look like is size of package of cigarettes, you cant relly say that is large.

Have on mind that this is women hand

It seems large to me because the NES is such an old product. Using the latest technology you could  produce a console of xbox 360 performance level smaller than that if you removed the disc drive and hard drive and just relied on flash memory. I personally would have prefered it smaller, about a third of the size. I think this would have been even more collectable and desirable.  To be honest they probably could have put all the electronics in the NES controller and done a wireless connection to a hdmi dongle that plugs into the tv.