Expensive, low supply, sure, but Overhyped? Doesnt it do exactly what was promised?
Submitted 12 hours ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to retrogaming@lemmy.world
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hesh@quokk.au 10 hours ago
mesamunefire@piefed.social 12 hours ago
It looks fun, but not at that price tag. And the supply issues seem to not be resolving themselves.
I personally would get an actual n64 or emu if I was going about it, but its nice we have options. If people do actually want a “premium” experience, it looks like the actual device is doing its job. When you can get one.
hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Analogue is shitty about supply. I understand they are a small company and can’t make an infinite supply like nintendo, Sony and Microsoft can but their scarcity market is insane. I checked the reddit and it seems like its a lot of fanboys and scalpers that scoop up all the units and leave few for the rest of us.
Luckily I’ve been able to score an NT, Super NT, Pocket and 3D without too much trouble and now I can actually play my old cartridges on modern TVs again. I learned my lesson with the pocket though and waited until the colored versions came out for the 3D.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
The two or three N64 games that are actually worth playing have already been recompiled into PC versions.
alleycat@feddit.org 11 hours ago
What a lot of people don’t get is that this isn’t just a N64 clone, it is a FPGA copy with overclocking, 4k upscaler and crt emulation, and it supports wireless controllers (albeit just a few select models). It’s a good deal, if you don’t have any other retro consoles - then og hardware and a separate upscaler might be better.
HouseWolf@pawb.social 11 hours ago
I would say I would never spend that much, but then I remember my £1000 Desktop I mainly use for playing old games…
_Nico198X_@piefed.europe.pub 11 hours ago
Their stuff is cool but very boutique. But nice products tho!
braydan@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
[deleted]Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Oh cool, where can i print mine off for free?
Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Counterpoint: I bought one and its very nice hardware, its new so (hopefully) it will last a while, supports native hdmi, and supports wireless controllers out of the box. I paired it with an everdrive x7 and the 8bitdo controllers so the entire package is new and works like a modern console.
I sold my og n64 in like 2000 so re-aquiring that setup would have cost me nearly as much and would have been time consuming to modify to what I wanted.
Yes, it isn’t original hardware so if you care about the experience of the power switch clicking on or some other tactile quality of the original, it isn’t that. For me, the games are the memories I wanted and this was simpler and works better than an emulator (I tried a bunch of them and never got them where I could tell my kid to just go play and have him be successful at finding the emu, picking a game, using the controller on his own).