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Sony's surprise release: Here's the PlayStation Classic

article published on 19 September, 2018

Nintedo unveiled a surprising product in 2016, a retro gaming console called NES Classic. The tiny NES-looking machine is a gaming console with 30ish retro Nintendo games, and it was a huge hit. Even Nintendo didn't expect it, and it sold out immediately, and a few times again. It came back in 2018, and Nintendo released a sibling, the SNES Classic. The success of these cheap little ... [ read the full article ]

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marleyboy
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_ 		23. September 2018 @ 09:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If only they could be bothered to tell us what game format they use. Mini cd roms, sd or standard original cd games.
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KillerBug
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_ 		24. September 2018 @ 23:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Probably onboard encrypted cd images, the CD spot is scaled with the rest of the system. 20 CD Images and an OS can be put on 16gb easy enough, and this is likely more for people who don't have any back catalog on disk anyway.

The controller is the crummy launch controller...so they couldn't be bothered to include the controller that a lot of the best games pretty much require...if they were willing to cut that corner, I'm not expecting much more than a closed-source raspi clone.

Then again, someone might hack it and have something better than a raspi in certain ways.
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