Sony needs to sell me a PS1 Classic with these features

[potato_hamster]

Turkish said:

potato_hamster said:

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.

lol. Okay man.

Let's break it down. I don't know what the framemeister does to do what it does, but they might utiliize some extremely specialized components to achieve what they're achieveing and it's not so simple for any company to make those components for fractions 1/10 or 1/30th of what it costs someone else just because they're ordering 2 million as opposed to 10,000. Even if they can, and can produce it cheaply, there could be IP that Sony needs to license that might not be cheap, which means Sony may need to pay a royalty more expensive than the components themselves in order to produce them. It is not that simple. You're grossly oversimpliying the concept of "economies of scale".

Why shouldn't something like this realistically cost more than $99-$129? Says who? Just because the sum of the components to make the device might be $50-60? What about the development costs? What about the Q+A costs? People are going to expect this thing to play every single PS1 game if it has the drive. That means ensuring they all work. And I assume they're going to want their memory cards to work as well. That's a whole other can of beans. Ohh and the digital copies of those games? You need to test those as well. Not exactly trivial.

No one would want a PS1 with preloaded games? I remember people saying the same thing about the NES classic.

Believe whatever you want to believe. At the end of the day, Sony isn't going to make your console, and you've been told why.