True, which is why I am, for the most part, aiming for dream cartridges. The Banjo announcement is what personally got me. Especially when I found out that Rare gave Evercade the games original source code and they were to reverse engineer them to modernize the games. Not based on any previous ports. Essentially, the Evercade versions of both Banjo games are the best remasters of the games yet.

It does show that there can be more to Evercade than just compilations of old games; they can even modernize them without messing with how they look or sound. Which is honestly what I want a lot of the time lol. I don't want modern graphics. A lot of times, I just want the original games with a modern control scheme.

Several of those are on the Neo Super Pocket (also from Blaze). Overlap is something they try to limit where possible. 

There was this podcast last month with the Head of Communications at Blaze and Digital Foundry about Evercade, and he dropped that they have sold over 1.5 million cartridges since Evercade's beginning. Which was in 2020. Not bad at all considering how old the games were on the majority of these cartridges those first few years. It was overwhelmingly 70s and 80s games. Even including Commodore 64 titles. Which was a big reason why I didn't have much interest in the platform. Too niche and too old for me personally lol.

Now that they're getting more well known titles, such as Banjo and Doom, and physical gaming taking such a massive hit by 2028, Evercade may be in the right place at the right time to take full advantage. Hopefully they'll drop even more big hits in 2027 to further establish themselves.

He also clarified that they are a small company and they're not immune from the memory shortages lol. Thankfully they don't need anywhere near as much memory as most other companies do. I know the consoles went up in price like $30 or so, and he did straight up say that it will happen again at some point. Cartridges will also eventually go up in price. They'll hold out as long as they can until they can't.

So it's another one of those things where if you want the cheapest option, a day 1 purchase is going to have to be the way, unfortunately.

Yes! I'm super excited for the Banjo pack. I preordered the Nexus 64 Edition. I'm a sucker for anything N64 and Rare related.

I'm hoping for more 32- and 64-bit games.

No way!!! I tried to get the 64 Edition, and it had already sold out lol. Was able to get the Doom edition though, which I am more than happy with!

We'll definitely be getting more though. The entirety of Nexus's marketing focuses on 32- and 64-bit games, so I'm anxious to see what else they're able to put out. Outside of Rare's N64 catalog, which I would expect to happen down the line, minus Nintendo-owned IP and Goldeneye, I would LOVE the original trilogies of Spyro and Crash, which is why I included them in my original list. If Evercade could get give them the Banjo treatment......I might die of happiness lol. I'm holding on to hope, considering their previous work with Activision and Microsoft as a whole, since Rare is even in on it.

This just dropped:

They really went the extra mile!

- Higher resolution graphics and fonts

- 60fps

- Widescreen support

- Modern controls

Incredible!!!!

Also, “and there’s more Rare to come on Evercade in the future” 👀