HOW COOL IS THIS?
Nintendo just doesn't know how to cash more money. Nintendo became meh latest years sadly. Also $60 that's like very overpriced.
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60$ for 30 great games that often sell for quite a bit more on ebay? Doesn't sound overpriced to me. Even just mega man 2 often sells for around 30$ for the NES version.
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Real games that increase in value over time, on a real console
This is nothing like that
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It's still a legal way to own the games for less than the cost of an original cart. The only other alternatives are virtual console stuff, which costs more.
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Compared to similar systems it's not very cheap though. About $20-40 would be more in line with what other systems like these costs.
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Don't forget that those "similar" systems aren't official and in a legal grey area. The only reason most of them haven't been taken down is because the cost of a lawsuit is larger than what they would get from it.
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Many of them are not in any legal grey area. SEGA have allowed several of these, as have Atari & Namco. The ones by Jakks Pacific are officially licenced (Atari & Namco), the ones by Mammoth Toys are as well (C64) as are the ones by Radica (Mega Drive/Genesis + some EA sports titles). Atari also made a series in-house, simply called the Atari Flashback. And these are the ones you're likely to run into, at least around these parts, and they are the ones I'm comparing it to. Most of them have less games than the NES one above, but they're on the other hand in the sub $20 region.
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Still not quite right. Only some of the Jakks Pacific and the Sega ones aren't in a legal grey area... All of which have a higher cost per game (at least when bought new), I might add.
The companies that licensed the others did not own the copyright to all the games that were included, only the rights to the console and some of the games. They sometimes had rights to distribute and produce copies for the original console, but that doesn't include ported versions to new consoles. However, most of the companies that did have those rights were already defunct. A non-existent entity can't sue.
Taking the Epyx games on the Comodore one as an example. They only sold the rights to distribute and produce copies for the existing versions of the games when Epyx closed down (to Atari and Bridgestone Media, NOT to Tulip Computers that provided the license for the C64 Direct-to-TV). They didn't sell the IP or the copyright to the games themselves and the ones who licensed the C64 clone didn't have any rights to it at all. The games from Hewson, which were also released on the Comodore one... Well, they literally never sold their rights to the games in any form until recently (which is why they are on Nintendos Virtual Console) even though the company shut down in 1991.
The Atari games are a complete mess if it comes to their copyright, as they were often copyrighted by one of the developers rather than the company, despite them working for Atari. This means that on paper, Atari didn't own the games. It was assumed the employees would always remain with the company... Eventually some people (a large part) left Atari when it collapsed and got bought out by Hasbro in 1998, taking the copyright with them. The Atari ones were released well after they lost the employees holding the copyright to the games that were included.
Furthermore, Radica hasn't produced anything like this. They only resold ones manufactured by Sega Toys and slapped their own brand on it...
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All I got out of this is that I can now buy a NES controller for my Wii
which can quite easily be hacked to install an emulator and every nes game ever
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Holy
Shit!
I NEED IT!
I wish there were more Megaman Parts though...
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This reminds me of the news of that super expensive Analogue NT from a while back. Hopefully this new one is good.
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-Can't use your original NES carts with the console - something even the most basic "Famiclone" offers - and there doesn't seem to be any means of getting new games onto it.
What's the point, like this it's just a fancy emulator that can't take new roms nor read cartridges.>_>
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My old NES has been dead for the last 10 years, I still have the controller and like 15 games, my SNES is still alive tho :3
If this wasn't too expensive (at least it is imo) I would have bought it ^^'
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Still have the original + most of the games that were released on it, so pass :3
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Zero reason to own this over an emulator in a classic NES shell.
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Cause it would make way too much sense to release old Nintendo games on Steam and consoles the way Sega has done with MegaDrive and Genesis games (eg: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/4838/)...
Nintendo lately seems to have a unendingly masochistic streak of making crappy, crippled products and then asking why they fail. But Pokemon Go is just one example of how massive the demand is for traditional Nintendo IP on modern devices.
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But nintendo sucks, and they are just interested in quick cash grabbing, they don't give a f*ck about gamers.
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I was going to say "that's pretty neat for people who loved that console!" but then...
Can't use your original NES carts with the console
What's the point....
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Since when can Snes9x emulate NES? (noticed how theres no S there?)
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its just a expression that Nintendo is still trying to squeeze juice from a 30 years old system and you cant even use carts while emulators are doing pretty good job
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I've been trying go legal lately, and seeing this made it a hell of a lot easier. 2 dollars is the perfect price for an NES game IMO
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If it had an optional CRT filter I might care about it, but meh. Game selection isn't terrible but it could have tried to license different games instead of their standard mix.
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i still have my old NES but this one offers a few games i dont have and wanted and could not find:) just not sure it will be worth the $60..$20 maybe be worth it for me, using hdmi instead of old rca connections would be nice but dont think it would make much difference with video quality.
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You can get a Retron 1 for about $20 that will work with your original NES cartridges and controllers.
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oh thats pretty cool thanks :)
it works ok how it is i dont think a hdmi connection is going to help with a 8bit console anyways tho :)~
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I have every NES game ever made for the US market and some for other markets.
Emulation FTW.
This is crap.
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Hell no, waste of money for me. I'd rather just run an emulator and output to a TV. I already have Nestopia with all the ROMs I could possibly want and a couple of wireless gamepads. Plus emulators have save states, quite possibly the best thing since sliced bread. I have an old NES in a box somewhere with many games and what with a good emulator there is basically zero incentive to ever pull it out.
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yep, its handy especially in those games where you can't save, or you would need to write down long codes....
this was annoying :(
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Im a JNES man myself and I'm always afraid of save states, or rather that I'm gonna save over top of one that matters by accidentally hitting a key or just being an idiot in general (like when I abuse them mid-leap in platformers). I love jNES but I would be willing to make a switch if there was an emulator out there that had a nicer more advanced layout for save states like screenshots that were in a window next to the slot number (which heck I may have even seen before) and the whole thing had options like adding a confirmation button or a "really save?" pop up for one game but the option to take it away for others. I dunno, I just always felt more secure using built in save features. Playing Zelda on an emu, I just don't feel as safe as I did when I'd start the game and it loaded and there was my game in the list of three slots. And even dumber still, I always kinda felt that built in saves were kind of an accomplishment... like something you could point to when you loaded a game or let a friend borrow the cartridge and you could said, "yeah, I did that, I'm awesome.". Sad I know right?
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will buy, maybe
I am 62,84% atm for an order
we will see
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My old NES still works perfectly, as do my old cartridges. I just need an old CRT telly because it looks really awful on a digital screen.
Maybe someday I will buy a used/broken one of these things to make my own hardware emulator using a Pi Zero or a C.H.I.P., but as it is, this is rubbish.
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i'll order one if they can read the old cartridge, i might have 150 of them and i don't play them anymore, i ran out of monitor that support the old cable D:
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What I said on Kotaku...The whole thing kinda smacks of something see on the shelf in dollar stores like retro Genesis and Atari devices that just plug in to our TV’s. An HDMI connection and a first party label doesn’t make this a notch above dollar store junk. The second controller being sold separately and the high MSRP actually sorta takes it to a notch below. At least with the dollar store stuff the price reflects what you are getting, and with this thing you aren’t getting what you paid for, you’re getting less.
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I put this in the off-topic section because obviously this site is about PC gaming. But since we are all gamers...anyone into retro stuff (emulators on PC aside).. might be into this. The console arrives on the 11th November and will come with 30 pre-loaded titles.
''Here's what Nintendo of America President and COO Reggie Fils-Aime had to say:
We wanted to give fans of all ages the opportunity to revisit Nintendo's original system and rediscover why they fell in love with Nintendo in the first place. The Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition is ideal for anyone who remembers playing the NES, or who wants to pass on those nostalgic memories to the next generation of gamers.''
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/07/nintendo_entertainment_system_nes_classic_edition_coming_this_november_ships_with_30_games
Some points that stand out:
-Price: $59.99.
-NES pad (Guessing the player2 one) will be sold separately for $9.99
-Has 30 great games (list is in the link above)
-Connects to your TV via HDMI
-Can't use your original NES carts with the console - something even the most basic "Famiclone" offers - and there doesn't seem to be any means of getting new games onto it.
-"Note that an AC adapter for the USB cable is required to play the system but is not included in the packaging."...what-didn't they learn anything from not putting a charger with the 3DS? /facepalm
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