I just received a new flat screen tv yesterday
Gratz on the new TV!
thought we could start a discussion on here, many Youtubers are downing the PS1 mini I can't make a final judgement on either of mine because I just started to play them yesterday, the NES classic comes with 30 built in games and the PlayStation 1 comes with 20 games built in
The PS Mini issues don't really stem from the gameplay of the chosen games, its a combination of the following:
Poor game selection. Every choice was pretty much made based solely on name recognition, with no consideration given to whether it was the "best" game from a franchise to choose. In addition there are some pretty big omissions, likely made because Sony didn't want to hurt the sales on some of the modern remakes of those same games . franchises.
Poor overall design and user experience. This thing was rushed out the door and it shows. Poor UI, not a super great product build, etc.
Mediocre emulation.
And this one is just opinion from me: the games from that generation have, in general, not aged very well.
Granted, I feel that a lot of these issues are mitigated by the current price point of $20-30, instead of being priced at the original $100.