Sony needs to sell me a PS1 Classic with these features

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potato_hamster said:

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.

Some good points.

As for the NES Classic being unique... It actually isn't. The SNES classic is replicating the NES classics precedent. It sold out in a couple days that it was on pre-order here in Australia.

The AT Games consoles weren't really advertised too well either... Plus they have technical issues, such as sub-par sound... No HDMI in an era where some TV's ONLY come with HDMI... Shit wireless controllers... List goes on.

The new Atari Flashback 8 and Genesis/Mega Drive consoles seem to be ditching their old emulation platform, so I am keen to see how well they do. (I've got mine pre-ordered along with the SNES classic and soon Xbox One X.)
But I don't expect them to be NES Classic or SNES Classic-like success stories though. Nintendo's classic consoles are riding the wave of nostalgia and social media virality, that is a hard thing to match...
The only other company that could match that kind of brand awareness is Sony, heck take a look at Crash, the sales on that game went bonkers.