Sony needs to sell me a PS1 Classic with these features

[Turkish]

potato_hamster said:

Turkish said:

"So you want Sony to cater to a very niche market"

LMAO niche market, go educate yourself how big the retro market is right now before giving your next 2 cents

"that will likely cost Sony more to develop than they would make off of it"

I says they will likely make money off of it than lose.

"To get the level of upscaling,PSN connectivity, disc drive support and storage, it would cost far more than anything like the NES classic"

Yeah it's gonna cost just as much as the PS4.

See, the niche part is people wanting a console that has "perfect upscaling", a built in CD drive and PSN network connectivity, and are willing to pay a premium price for a device that offers such things.

Sony could easily offer a PS1 classic that had 30-50 PS1 classics, no built-in CD drive, has upscaling about as good ad the NES Classic, and no network connectivity, sell it for $60-$100, and the vast majority of that retro crowd that you seem to think would want such a premium product would choose this one instead.

Thats not a niche part at all, Sony can make a better upscaler than what the Framemeister costs for a fraction due to economies of scale. The company behind Framemeister is nothing compared to an industrial giant like Sony. Sony has the resources to sell something better for cheaper.

Something like this shouldn't realistically cost more than $99-129. The Nes/Snes classic probably costs Nintendo ~$20 to manufacture, they have crazy margins on it.

No one would want a PS1 with preloaded games, people will want their own PS1 libraries, both on disc and digitally. Sony's gotta be more original than doing the same thing as Ninty.