I'm pretty interested in it. It has 30 great games, looks like a solidly-built mini-NES and has the original controllers which provide the authentic feel from when you originally played these games.
What's aggravating is seeing articles on it on the web and in the comments sections, everyone bitching about the price. Wow...$60 for a souvenir/game system and thirty DAMN FINE GREAT CLASSIC GAMES. We aren't talking 30 Atari "beep-boop-bop!" games or one of those chinzy Genesis consoles with 30 home-coded turds to pad out the selection. It also has HDMI and Nintendo is making it directly, not some 3rd party. Things like not including the AC adapter for the end of the USB power cable are cheesy as is the short controller cord length. But the same people bitching about the price will go out to a bar or a movie or an overpriced dinner and spend more than that no questions asked.
Me? I could go eat a $60 meal. About 12 hours later (give or take) I'll pinch a big loaf of that meal in the toilet. Or, I could buy a $8 McMeal and this guy for about the same price and enjoy classic gaming bliss forever more.
edit: i'm really sorry, i ramble a lot >~> feel free to ignore
i agree with you about the preferring something physical over buying food yikes. but i have disordered eating, so i see it as a win/win in my case. >.>;;
on the other hand, how the hell does someone eat a $60 meal??? i think the biggest tab i've ever dragged up was $25... that was sushi, a bento box and a round of desert and hot tea. yikes. (there again, as a vegetarian, it's hard for me to accrue a big tab... big tabs, i think, come from quality steak and such, filet mignon, it's easy to not accrue a giant tab on cheap vegetarian sushi/seaweed salad/tofu/mochi ice cream hahaha. i remember my ex would order salmon or whatever and his side of our tab would usually swallow mine whole... mahi mahi or salmon and the quality fish sushis don't come cheap at aaaall. ...well, it's easy to be cheap as a vegetarian as long as you don't go to hipstery vegan restaurants that shun GMOs and other shit like that lmao)
but yeah, $60 is a new game, and the price of all these games on the virtual console is like double, almost triple, the cost of this little machine. the price is fine. it's really not that much at all. you get 30 games and a neat collector's item... $2/game, before considering manufacturing cost and the cost of the little console itself. it's a great deal. kinda funny games pointed this out too. don't NES games on VC go for $5??
only children can really complain about $60 ngl. i don't make a lot, i make maybe 100 extra bones a month if i'm being 100% honest, but even i see that the value of this is actually higher. tho one can argue about why old games still go for $5 in digital format, or whatever (especially in a day where $1 mobile games are everywhere...) but that's for another topic altogether and can be a demand/supply argument for people brighter than i am.
as for people blowing that much cash on a dinner + cinema experience... people live for experience and they see value in different things, i guess.
for me, going to cinema for a $12(? $17?) ticket + popcorn/candy/soda cost + $20 dinner or whatever, i have no idea how much this stuff costs anymore lmao, isn't worth it, because i don't see 'value' in film watching... which is precisely why i can count the amount of films i've seen in the past 5 years on one hand and probably have a finger or two to spare (the machinist, one or two of the godzilla films, alfred hitchcock's psycho, fwiw). i find it a pointless activity, that i get very little to no enrichment out of, i don't feel any accomplishment after film-watching (unlike reading a book/manga, drawing, playing a game to completion, etc). but other people put a lot of value into watching films (or anime or whatever). but they don't feel there is as much value in retro NES titles in a pretty package. that's just their own personal supply/demand in their own head, i guess. my ex roommate got a lot of enrichment out of going to the cinema... he was constantly watching movies on netflix, constantly going to the cinema, at least three times a month. as for me, i found it a pointless activity, so i wouldn't partake (to his chagrin)
people prioritise things based on what they feel they get from that experience... some people dig that whole "going on a friday night to the cinema after dinner then renting another film before bed" jam, they don't think about blowing that cash for that reason. but buying this, when they could just download those games via piracy... yeah.
i guess it's the same for anything else. i think i'd be more likely to partake in film piracy (I DON'T, i don't even have internet to pull that off right now LOL) than, say, my roommate, who paid for netflix/redbox/cinema tickets, because i don't feel that it's a value to me to pay for film (i don't feel it's a value TO MY TIME, though, whether i get it for free or not, so i don't bother at all). on the other hand, he was much more keen on downloading DS games online... because he was borrowing my DS, so he didn't have a permanent platform to play them on... the value wasn't there for him.
on the other hand, we at this site all seem to prefer owning copies of games rather than renting/borrowing/pirating for a reason yeah? ;'D
dunno why i'm rambling about this shit, which you all probably know by now.
but yeah.
i mean, i get why people complain about the price, but it's their own personal set of value, versus true market value. in other words, they're being self-absorbed. go figure, the game industry is full of that, haha.
