Sony is borrowing its best friend Nintendo's idea to bring its classic console in palm format. Meet the PlayStation Classic.

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Announced in a blog post today, this miniature rehash of the classic console with a very original name will feature defining titles like Final Fantasy VII, Tekken 3, Wild Arms and 17 other "legendary titles".

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"The mini console is approximately 45% smaller than the original PlayStation, and it emulates the original’s look and feel by featuring similar controllers and packaging," reads the blog post.

Each unit will come bundled with an HDMI cable, a USB cable, and two controllers for local multiplayer within compatible titles.

Pre-loaded with 20 classic title, the new mini-console launches December 3 at an MSRP of $99.99.

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[brunocar]

way to go sony, remove retrocompat from the PS4 and sell it for 100 dollars without analog support or an AC adaptor, fucking dicks.

 

[chrisrlink]

you know the drill scalper will buy every last one and sell it for 3X as much to desperate ppl

 

[Kioku]

I suppose, but on the cheap?

Not on the PS1 I don't think.. Xbox and DC have cheap cables that work well on modern displays though.

 

[the_randomizer]

Not on the PS1 I don't think.. Xbox and DC have cheap cables that work well on modern displays though.

Eh, I still think they would look bad, even when scaled.

 

[Krazyeye]

very curious to see what the specification might be like; hopefully it can be softmodded in the future

 

[J-Machine]

5 dollars a game with two controllers uprezzed to 720p and with much less power consumption sounds alright to me.

 

[JamiePashley]

way to go sony, remove retrocompat from the PS4 and sell it for 100 dollars without analog support or an AC adaptor, fucking dicks.

100% this. The PS4 is capable of playing PSOne games, it just looks like this is why they haven't done it yet. One day maybe...

 

[brunocar]

100% this. The PS4 is capable of playing PSOne games, it just looks like this is why they haven't done it yet. One day maybe...

every playstation console is able to, even their portables, there is no excuse, more anti consumer bullshit, the day they announced that you'd need to pay for online on PS4 i saw the writing on the wall and switched to PC and now im just standing back and watching in disgust.

 

[Windaga]

Not as expensive as market value. At least with the SNES classic.

Well that's what I mean. That's too expensive, too. At least, for what you're getting, in my opinion. The classics are great, but the Values are distorted, if not incredibly inflated.

 

[SonicMC]

Neat little option for those who don't have or haven't tried ps1 games... However not for me.

Ps1 psn games on ps3 are 6-10$ (not including sales). So to get those games would be 120-200$ on ps3 PSN.

I already have 28 on ps3 PSN. Unless the game list is completely different than the ones I already have. It would be more worth it for me to just buy the rest on ps3 than get a whole new console.

Different than the nes and snes; the PS3 already has HDMI out.

Many Ps3 PSN ps1 games also run on my psp/vita; so portable awesomeness included for me.

The PS3 also plays my ps1 discs; of which I also have around 20 different titles.

I will just be happy with what I have this time round

 

[HEADBOY]

Very original move, Sony!

No really, nobody could’ve come up with this
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Like, nobody...
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I guess you could’ve added a screen to it...
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Again, nobody has never ever done this before.
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To be fair, it's honestly no different from the Plug n Play games we got a decade prior. Everyone was making them, heck my family honestly had a couple of the Namco toys. We all ate it up just like how people are eating up the Classic Mini craze (Myself included, I have an NES CLASSIC with hakchi2).

 

[DeslotlCL]

Wow, even the stock image of "disembodied hand holding small system" is just a Nintendo knockoff. Way to be original, Sony.

And yet everyone is cheering them on. The PlayStation love circlejerk continues...

But sega have been doing mini consoles long before ninty, so ninty copied them! But nobody cares because it is nintendo, their god and saviour.

 

[Wolfy]

PS2 Classic when? Honestly I'm all for them making these classic consoles again, no need to spend ridiculous amounts of money on the originals for either a console that's having problems due to it's age, controllers that aren't tight, and games that emulators may not be able to fully emulate!

So these classic consoles are a god send, especially if they make a N64 and GameCube Mini XD I'd probably die for the GC one.

 

[eriol33]

I really hope they will include FF tactics and the emulation better be good! I really miss the crisp sound effects of FF tactics which cannot be emulated properly by emulators

 

[samcambolt270]

The only way I'd buy this is if we can hook a third party controller to it, and hack it eventually and put my own games on there. I never really liked those games and doubt the other 17 are anything I like either.

 

[PrincessLillie]

One can only wonder: How well will this work out? Considering the AtGames Genesis consoles were a disaster, let's hope Sony isn't having AtGames develop this. Other than that, I'm actually pretty excited for the PlayStation Classic. That's a steep price tag for PlayStation games though.
Hakchi2 for PlayStation Classic when?

 

[SuperDan]

No metal gear solid? ..

 

[pedro702]

i wonder why not use analog controllers, this makes alot of games much easier to play, srs dpad only mode is just sad.

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But sega have been doing mini consoles long before ninty, so ninty copied them! But nobody cares because it is nintendo, their god and saviour.

sega has been licensing mini consoles not making them, all the mini emulator boxes are all licensed and awful.

 

[sarkwalvein]

sega has been licensing mini consoles not making them, all the mini emulator boxes are all licensed and awful.

Exactly like Nintendo. They didn't develop the NES Mini hardware nor software.

 

[pedro702]

Exactly like Nintendo. They didn't develop the NES Mini hardware nor software.

all i see is nintendo developement and nintendo simbols on all the boxes, on sega consoles you would see other company's names like at games and such.