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RenCutypoison said:
KLXVER said:

Its just a physical emulator with some roms. Probably 10 bucks to manufacture at the most.

You can't even build a scientific calculator with BASIC language support for 10 bucks. Even if the power is "cheap", there are still costs you can't cut off. And it's not some chinese bootleg console, people are expecting a good build quality, a glitchy (even mini) console would be terrible press for Sony.

There are also marketing, research, distribution and publishers' royalties costs and accessories to account for. Manufacturing cost isn't everything. It's extremely cheap.

I agree. The controllers probably cost more, people underestimate the work going into good controllers.

I wouldn't say these retor-consoles are cheap, but it's not $10 worth either. Main reason I get neither of these is, that I hate to have so much devices. I take the NES-games in the Nintendo-online subscription and hate the fact Switch no longer has Virtual Console.



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