NES Classic Edition controller cords are only 3 feet long

[S.Peelman]

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.