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Dulfite on 26 June 2017
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LuckyTrouble said:
Shadow1980 said:
Solid selection of games. Could have used Final Fantasy IV (II), Chrono Trigger, and also maybe Gradius III and/or UN Squadron. They really should have had 30 games. The SNES had just as many classics as the NES.

Also, $80 is a bit much considering there's fewer games on it than on the NES Mini. They went from $2 per game to $3.81 per game. It's nowhere near as good of a value proposition as the NES Mini was.

I might try to get an SNES Mini just to have one, but I'm more interested in the Polymega retro console right now.

Realistically, if you consider the base unit to be worth approximately $10 and each controller to be worth approximately $5, you're looking at about $2.86 a game after the fact.

That said, I'm probably gonna go for this one. Even at only 21 games, it's a lot of classics with some of my favorite games (Super Mario RPG ftw). Nice to see that Nintendo managed to get some third party games too which may be why there are less games overall. A lot of the classics from the SNES era came from third parties, and I imagine getting many of those digital licenses in this day and age is an expensive chore to near impossible depending on where IP ended up and what companies went out of business and took their IP with them.

It isn't perfect, but this one is easier to justify the purchase of to me. The NES Classic came across as more of a novelty, including 30 games you would maybe spend a couple afternoons on and then move on. The SNES classic easily comes with $80 worth of play time. Sure, a Pi hooked up as an emulator box ultimately gets you more bang for your buck, but nothing wrong with grabbing something a bit more collectable. I'm sure this will be hacked wide open to hold more games anyways, so it's a win/win.

SNES games were much better, more enjoyable, and way more convenient to play than NES games. I never bought a NES mini because I hated and still hate playing NES games (they just are terrible feeling), but SNES games? Those were gold. I'd take a SNES mini at that price with 10 games, so 21 makes me happy. That being said I'm still waiting to see what their virtual console plans are for Switch before I decide on this. If they offer a subscription service like Netflix with retro games that I could access on my switch for a monthly fee I'll gladly pay that instead.