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V-r0cK on 16 November 2016
Pyro as Bill said:

Tell me you aren't this stupid guys.

A PS2/3 doesn't count as a PS1 because it isn't restricted to just PS1 games. Compatability with a previous console doesn't make it that console.

No wonder so many people get confused with what a console is.

If you want to play more than the 30 bundled games you'll have to buy the other model obviously.

Well then please elborate as to how the NES mini is more of an NES than a PS2/PS3 is a PS1?

If people want to play PS1 games then can just pick up a PS2/PS3.  PS2/PS3 does what a PS1 can.  

Does NES mini do what a NES can?  Or are you basing this soley on it's name/look and the type of games it can play?

Not sure who's stupid here.... >.>



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S.Peelman on 16 November 2016

Lol. Well that's one way to look at it. I would count the NES mini (and the eventual SNES and N64 minis), seperately from their original releases. They're retro-rereleases with limited features. Would we also count the two Atari Flashbacks and those Brazilian Mega Drives and whatever else towards their respective parent consoles?



vivster on 16 November 2016

I don't get the hostility in this thread. Insecure much?
The NES Mini is a slim version of the original console. It has all of the games that anyone ever played on the OG. It definitely is a NES.

I'm just sitting here and wait for for the PS1 mini.



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SegataSanshiro on 16 November 2016

So with all the aftermarket handhelds and consoles Mega Drive/Genesis has outsold SNES/SFamicon

SEGA WINS!



vivster on 16 November 2016
S.Peelman said:
Lol. Well that's one way to look at it. I would count the NES mini (and the eventual SNES and N64 minis), seperately from their original releases. They're retro-rereleases with limited features. Would we also count the two Atari Flashbacks and those Brazilian Mega Drives and whatever else towards their respective parent consoles?

Yes we should. People are pretending that a console cannot have different SKUs with different features. By that logic we should count every SKU like Slim consoles extra because they don't come with the full feature set of the original.



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S.Peelman on 16 November 2016
vivster said:
S.Peelman said:
Lol. Well that's one way to look at it. I would count the NES mini (and the eventual SNES and N64 minis), seperately from their original releases. They're retro-rereleases with limited features. Would we also count the two seven Atari Flashbacks and those Brazilian Mega Drives and whatever else towards their respective parent consoles?

Yes we should. People are pretending that a console cannot have different SKUs with different features. By that logic we should count every SKU like Slim consoles extra because they don't come with the full feature set of the original.

Fair enough. This all will get pretty complicated then.

EDIT: Also, holy cr*p there's actually 7 Atari Flashbacks out there.



vivster on 16 November 2016
S.Peelman said:
vivster said:

Yes we should. People are pretending that a console cannot have different SKUs with different features. By that logic we should count every SKU like Slim consoles extra because they don't come with the full feature set of the original.

Fair enough. This all will get pretty complicated then.

Nah, people just need to accept that NES Mini is a NES console and we're fine. Unless they want to take X360 Arcade and PS3 Slim out of the sales total and make their sales look even worse in comparison to the Wii.



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Darwinianevolution on 16 November 2016

Can we really compare a regular console with a plug and play one? I mean, we should compare the NES Classic to the Mini-Genesis and Mini-Ataris released over the years, not an propper mainline console. If Sony ever releases a PS1 Classic, then that would be another thing.



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SegataSanshiro on 16 November 2016
vivster said:
I don't get the hostility in this thread. Insecure much?
The NES Mini is a slim version of the original console. It has all of the games that anyone ever played on the OG. It definitely is a NES.

I'm just sitting here and wait for for the PS1 mini.

Doesn't have Wizards and Warriors II or Strider or Famicom Wars (way before Advance wars) or Metal Storm or Kabuki Quantam Fighter or even Captain Skyhawk.



pokoko on 16 November 2016

I thought the OP was making a joke and it made me smile ... but it seems that he was serious.

That's kind of sad.