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potato_hamster on 26 July 2017
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Pemalite said:
potato_hamster said:

Ahh. So you want Sony to cater to a very niche market that will likely cost Sony more to develop than they would make off of it. To get the level of upscaling,PSN connectivity, disc drive support and storage, it would cost far more than anything like the NES classic, which would be seen as a money grab to the average consumer. This shit would never fly.

Carry on folks, nothing to see here.

Cost would indeed be blown out. Games are orders-of-magnitude larger than the cart systems, which has allowed Nintendo to hit such low price points with it's classic console systems.

However... Unless someone tries, we won't know what the market reaction would be like, would a $150-$200 classic system sell? Think about the amount of people who spent hundreds on Ebay NES classic consoles...

Perhaps there is a market for it, but I strongly doubt it. Let's say Nintendo didn't want to throw money away and decided to produce millions more NES classics at launch, kept producing them until they started showing up at Bed, Bath and Beyond, and then shut down production at 10 million units instead of the 2ish they did. After all that. they then eventually all sold out after being readily available on store shelves for months. No one would be willing to spend $200 on one. I think the price people are willing to pay for it has more to do with the lack of availability and exlcusivity of owning one, much like the people that are willing to pay $500 for a Nintendo Switch today, or the people willing to spend over $1000 on a PS4 at launch.

Yet, no sane person is looking at eBay prices for Nintendo Switches and saying "I think Nintendo should make a $500 console, and Sony should make a $1000 PS4, there's clearly a market for it".

Don't forget Atari flashback and Sega genesis/megadrive retro consoles from the likes of At Games. Neither of these were made in nearly as high of quantities as the NES Classic, aren't sold out everywhere, and aren't going for 3-4 times the asking price on eBay, even when the latter upscales, and has a genesis/megadrive cartridge slot. The NES Classic is unique.