Everybody is doing a mini console except Microsoft

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d21lewis said:

I may be wrong but every mini console has been 4th gen gaming or earlier. PS1 was fifth gen and those games look horrible now. Never should have been released as a mini.

A huge driver for these mini consoles is the nostalgia that goes along with the value. With the original Xbox, I just don't think enough people have that nostalgia factor for it to be a success.

What I was thinking.

Also, being able to get 20+ SNES games at an affordable price seemed pretty impressive. I've been doubting the possibility of Nintendo doing the same with the N64, given how much they value their backlog, but I suppose we'll see.

But an Xbox Classic would be on par with a Gamecube Classic or a PS2 Classic, and at that point the budget to make a game had gone up considerably and it's hard to see 20+ games from that gen being released at an affordable price.