The Nintendo Entertainment System is -sorta- coming back to stores - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Tools;50722777]Sorry but this seems like a massive cashgrab. I've seen tons of 8-bit consoles from chinese manufactures to prices as low as $2 You'd be able to run it off an ARM processor for a production price of like $10 too It looks amazing, I'll give it that, but it's a lot of money for the looks of a small NES.[/QUOTE] Only difference is Chinese bootlegs are typically of really shit quality when you pay for low quality items you get low quality

[QUOTE=J!NX;50722794]Only difference is Chinese bootlegs are typically of really shit quality when you pay for low quality items you get low quality[/QUOTE] The games included wth this console are 30 years old, I'm pretty sure they've made their money back by now.

[QUOTE=Tools;50722777]Sorry but this seems like a massive cashgrab. I've seen tons of 8-bit consoles from chinese manufactures to prices as low as $2 You'd be able to run it off an ARM processor for a production price of like $10 too It looks amazing, I'll give it that, but it's a lot of money for the looks of a small NES.[/QUOTE] What's wrong with making a cash grab on their rightfully owned products? Plug and play consoles have been popular for decades, and Atari makes a nice chunk of cash off of their pnp mini consoles. Bootleg NES consoles have also existed and been sold for a while. Nintendo has every right to get in on that market, and $60 really isn't that much.

[QUOTE=Tools;50722777]Sorry but this seems like a massive cashgrab. I've seen tons of 8-bit consoles from chinese manufactures to prices as low as $2 You'd be able to run it off an ARM processor for a production price of like $10 too It looks amazing, I'll give it that, but it's a lot of money for the looks of a small NES.[/QUOTE] Nobody who collects video game memorabilia is going to be like "why bother when I can use emulators or a cheap knock-off?"

[QUOTE=Tools;50722810]The games included wth this console are 30 years old, I'm pretty sure they've made their money back by now.[/QUOTE] Nintendo needs a cashgrab right now. The Wii U's in a better position than it was, say, 2 or 3 years ago, but they're still financially shaky.

[QUOTE=LTJGPliskin;50723836]Nintendo needs a cashgrab right now. The Wii U's in a better position than it was, say, 2 or 3 years ago, but they're still financially shaky.[/QUOTE] with Pokemon Go their stocks have risen pretty high. It's rivaling Twitter for the most downloaded app right now. I doubt they're doing this for a major cashgrab, but rather a smaller one.

[QUOTE=Hey I'm Grump;50724617]with Pokemon Go their stocks have risen pretty high. It's rivaling Twitter for the most downloaded app right now. I doubt they're doing this for a major cashgrab, but rather a smaller one.[/QUOTE] PGO will only last them so long and so will a lot of things

Nintendo is anything but financially shaky, they've got money so far up their ass that it's almost impossible for them to go out of business for the next 20 years.

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;50715910]RPi fucking sucks for emulation, since we're on this topic. It's such a fucking hassle to compile anything for the Pi's dumb non-standard GPU. And for some reason emulation station breaks my FTP server >8( Get an ODROID C2, it's practically the same price (Pi with power adapter and C2 with power adapter both come out to $50, though you might need a $5 wifi adapter for the C2), but the CPU and GPU are much more standard for what you usually see in consumer ARM computers. It can run Android without any special hacks or use hardware acceleration in a non-customized web browser, for example. Other benefits include having twice the RAM, a faster processor, and a way more powerful GPU (which supports 4k resolutions). It also has an MMC port for fast SSD storage. It's just all around better, so unless you intend to use the Pi to learn programming like they advertise, it's the better choice. I'll be replacing my Pi 3 with one soon. [editline].[/editline] Also we're probably not the intended audience for the mini-NES anyway. I imagine they're trying to capture the audience of parents and grandparents who buy shitty plug-n-play consoles for their kids. My grandma bought me a bootleg SoC NES clone in the shape of an N64 controller way back in the day and I loved that thing.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't say raspberry pi emu "sucks" but obviously a consumer product will be much more capable and easy to set up. I love my raspberry pi emulation box, but I also enjoy the setup, the figuring it out, and being able to customize it, 3d printing the case, et cetera. It's a different product.

[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;50726570]I'd rather have a mini-SNES. NES was a good console, but the games just do not have longevity.[/QUOTE] I'd rather have a Virtual Console console. Basically this thing but with an internet connection :v:

[QUOTE=Qwerty Bastard;50713779]I love how the box is basically the original NES box art with some tweaks, it's a cheeky little touch. [thumb]http://www.consolepassion.co.uk/sites/default/files/nintendo-nes-mario-console-boxed.jpg[/thumb] Even has the star background.[/QUOTE] Oh my god look at all those buzzwords, I love it

[QUOTE=fenwick;50727592]I wouldn't say raspberry pi emu "sucks" but obviously a consumer product will be much more capable and easy to set up. I love my raspberry pi emulation box, but I also enjoy the setup, the figuring it out, and being able to customize it, 3d printing the case, et cetera. It's a different product.[/QUOTE] Sucks compared to the C2 is what I meant. I respect the RPi guys for wanting to keep the Pi open and using the VideoCore GPU, but God it's such a fucking hassle. Just try using VLC or FCEU without spending an hour following outdated tutorials to compile it with extensions the Pi needs; it doesn't fucking work. The C2 just has a standard Mali-450 that you can find in tons of Android phones and other ARM computers; shit works great and I don't have to fiddle around with recompiling anything or using customized software just to watch a fucking YouTube video. Sure it's fun fiddling with things, but I wanted this Pi for practical uses.

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;50727630]Sucks compared to the C2 is what I meant. I respect the RPi guys for wanting to keep the Pi open and using the VideoCore GPU, but God it's such a fucking hassle. Just try using VLC or FCEU without spending an hour following outdated tutorials to compile it with extensions the Pi needs; it doesn't fucking work. The C2 just has a standard Mali-450 that you can find in tons of Android phones and other ARM computers; shit works great and I don't have to fiddle around with recompiling anything or using customized software just to watch a fucking YouTube video. Sure it's fun fiddling with things, but I wanted this Pi for practical uses.[/QUOTE] You could just say the C2 is like the Pi, except without having to deal with Broadcom's fuckery of things. Also support for actual eMMC modules instead of SD-cards for booting makes it a speed demon in comparison, and added native gigabit ethernet and not some USB based 100mbit shenanigans like the PI's Although for [I]baby's first SoC board[/I], the C2 is a little bit harder to use, especially for a Linux novice as a whole, lack of community and step-by-step guides for everything.