Box indeed.

No; my understanding is that the Chinese company responsible for the iQue Player got hacked and had all this stuff on their server(s).

Now watch Sony match pricing instead of undercutting. :P

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Don't forget that they intentionally refer to their customers as "consumers" to avoid that air of responsibility towards the people they do business with.

That’s what I said: anything except those I listed needs a CRT.

Still depends on the display and/or how you’re feeding it the signals. Game mode on my Samsung LCD from about 2009 will just show the fields and fill in black (equivalent to OSSC doing line2x on 480i with alternating scanlines). If you’re using something like a RetroTINK 2X or OSSC doing line2x, your TV is getting…

As long as you’re using a quality connection, the games look fine, at least in terms of visual fidelity. S-Video from an N64 would look fine for most people.

CRTs aren’t necessary, unless you want to play light gun games (excepting Zapper, Guncon 3, anything Wii, and anything supported by the Sinden light gun). Otherwise, I agree with you.

I haven’t been paying attention to console or game prices for a while, but, if we’re talking “just get it running”, it sounds reasonable for a GameCube or Wii, plus Super Mario Sunshine and maybe a third-party GameCube controller (assuming the console doesn’t come with one), to cost less than $100, and, if your TV…

I wasn’t arguing that Nintendo hasn’t done something like this before; just that John’s apparent claim that you can’t buy these games at all is not true. If he intended to say that you can’t buy them from Nintendo, that’s a different claim that I would agree with.

If he meant you can’t buy them from Nintendo today, then why didn’t he just say that?

That may be true, but that doesn’t make John’s claim true that you can’t do it at all.

...spread across three previous consoles none of which can be purchased today...

I’m still shocked that the PS4's optical drive can’t read CDs; that effectively puts out the possibility of PS2 support (or at least the possibility of full coverage), because quite a number of PS2 titles were small enough to ship on CD. I imagine the PS5 will have the same limitation, which would also quite…

To me, Jim Ryan (circa 2017) sounds disconnected. Saying PS1 and PS2 games look ancient says nothing about their approachability, relevance, nor enjoyability; and it says, at least to me, that he is not open-minded about Sony’s videogame customers, and that he disregards the significants of those games and consoles in…

Plainly, because I’ve heard more regarding the N64 and SNES in that context and not so much the GameCube.

Don’t forget that Nintendo didn’t always do their own thing with regards to competing on specs. The SNES and N64 were very much high-end hardware when they were released.

Yeah, I suppose I'm one of the few who actually bothers to jump through the hoops to check the comments on these deal posts. :)

Yeah, I suppose I'm one of the few who actually bothers to jump through the hoops to check the comments on these…

They recycled an older sale post.

They recycled an older sale post.