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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[HideoKojima]

This is called milking.

 

[CeeDee]

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.

You're not wrong. It's nothing new by any means, "plug and play" consoles have been around for eons.

But Sega's were outsourced and of cheap quality. Similar goes for the various Atari models.
Nintendo's handling of their own seems to have been what sparked everyone else to make their own similar, probably higher quality, miniature ROM machines - NES/SNES, Neo Geo, that C64 one, and now the PlayStation.

 

[DS1]

I've got nothing but mean, cynical, realistic things to say so I'll hold my tongue.

All I'm saying is it better have Tenchu and Parasite Eve or you're kond-of kidding yourself.

 

[TJHeartnote]

Who is willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that this thing gets cracked in a month or less. And all you would need is a exturnal Hdd and a OTG adaptor to get all the ps1 games on there plus other systems.

 

[GamerzHell9137]

When a limited emulator costs 100 bucks and they ask you to buy a power cable with it.
*claps* Scalping like Nintendo did with 3DS XL~

Just get a raspberry pi

 

[kumikochan]

Both of those were started after PlayStation development started.

32x was released around the same time as the PlayStation & there is no way it was in development as long.

Jaguar was released before it worked properly. Sony waited until they could get the price down and launch a working product. Sony did some relatively major last minute changes to the GPU to get the performance up, they dumped the previous revision into the arcade. Where the GPU will only ever run 1 game, rather than screwing over their entire generation of consoles like Atari did. Jack Tramiel used to pull the same shit when he worked at commodore.

Are you kidding me ? Do you even Know how development works ? The jaguar came out a year prior to the PlayStation so ofcourse it was in development way before the playstation. Lmao claims the psx was in development prior to a console that came out way before.

 

[Captain_N]

Id rather own a ps1 and burn cd's if i wanted to play games i dont own. Every ps1 can boot a burn with the disc swap trick.
Cool for collectors i suppose.
Wouldn't ib be kick ass if it actually read cds?
Those ps1 games are gonna look like shit on a 1080p/4k tv. early 3d games dont age well. When played on a modern display its even worse. They better add good crt emulation. The crt rounds out all the sharp edges and smooths the pixelated sprites.

 

[Kioku]

Id rather own a ps1 and burn cd's if i wanted to play games i dont own. Every ps1 can boot a burn with the disc swap trick.
Cool for collectors i suppose.
Wouldn't ib be kick ass if it actually read cds?
Those ps1 games are gonna look like shit on a 1080p/4k tv. early 3d games dont age well. When played on a modern display its even worse. They better add good crt emulation. The crt rounds out all the sharp edges and smooths the pixelated sprites.

Disc swapping is tedious and I despise CD lenses. At that point you may as well just emulate.

 

[Captain_N]

Disc swapping is tedious and I despise CD lenses. At that point you may as well just emulate.

Yeah cd lasers do suck. I tend to have multiples of my consoles for that reason. My original gamecube laser is gone. glad i had 4 gamecubes lol. Long live carts lol

 

[RayPanimals]

Hopefully we will have the ability to mod these and add more games or wireless controllers.

 

[tranceology3]

It is cool that console makers are bringing back classic systems with installed games - a very simple way to bring back retro gaming. However, why won't any console maker just take it to the next level and release hardware that is capable of emulating their games like PC emulators do, with super nice anti-aliasing, shaders, all the enhancements, etc. I am not an expert with emulators, but since these companies designed the systems from scratch, don't they have way more resources to work with to optimize a kick ass emulator? Then why not just resell some of these games as emulated remastered for $20. Once the emulator is done, they can just resell their whole library again. I mean technically they are already emulating them in these classic systems, but at their normal resolution - which is fine for people that want the classic look, but it would be interesting to see how well an upgraded licensed emulator would do on the market. Those PS1 games are just so damn painful on the eyes, especially on an HDTV, playing on a 480i CRT back in the 90s wasn't that noticeable though.

 

[Hanafuda]

Are you kidding me ? Do you even Know how development works ? The jaguar came out a year prior to the PlayStation so ofcourse it was in development way before the playstation. Lmao claims the psx was in development prior to a console that came out way before.

If you include the time Sony and Nintendo spent developing the Play Station / SNES-CD together, then development of the Playstation began in 1986. When Nintendo cancelled the deal Sony had a lot of the work done, but had to redesign as an independent product completely separate from SNES architecture. Technically, you're both correct, depending on how you want to look at it.

 

[ertaboy356b]

Vita TV can play PSone games. I wonder if it's just a Vita TV inside.

 

[smf]

Are you kidding me ? Do you even Know how development works ? The jaguar came out a year prior to the PlayStation so ofcourse it was in development way before the playstation. Lmao claims the psx was in development prior to a console that came out way before.

We know that the CPU in the 360 was a result of a design Sony asked IBM to build for the PS3 & yet the 360 came out a year before the PS3.

Either your logic doesn't hold up, or Microsoft had a time machine.

 

[Zonark]

Yeah I thought that, the lack of analog is a MASSIVE oversight, or a marketing ploy to bring out another set of DS controllers for more of your hard earned...

I bet they have Bluetooth on this though. At least they better...

 

[sarkwalvein]

I know how development works, your conclusion is provably flawed.

We know the PS3 started development before the Xbox 360, because Microsoft went to IBM and asked for the same CPU they were developing for Sony (in cooperation with Toshiba and Sony).

The 360 came out a year before the PS3.

By your argument Microsoft must have been developing the 360 for an entire year before Sony started the PS3. Obviously they just sat there doing nothing for 12 months.

I don't think SONY introduced 3D to consoles, but they made it to be the main focus on consoles.
(i.e. some way of 3D graphics was already there somewhat barebone in some Sega Genesis games, but it never was the focal point of the console)

Anyway, it was coming, if SONY hadn't made it the main focus, it would have been Nintendo, they were into talks with SGI about it since 1992 IIRC.
So probably Nintendo was the one that started developing the "first console fully focused on 3D"... Or better said it wasn't Nintendo, it was SGI, and it wanted to sell the concept to either SEGA or NINTENDO back then.

You can easily see that the 32X is a desperate move and more than an afterthought, and SEGA with the Saturn wasn't really thinking of 3D as the main mode of operation for the console, powering it up for 3D was also kind of an afterthought after getting to know what SONY was planning to put out.

 

[KiiWii]

I bet they have Bluetooth on this though. At least they better...

I would have hoped so, but it’s not “”authentic”” to NOT have cables to accidentally snag on your leg and drag the shiny new unit to the ground in about a thousand pieces.

 

[smf]

I don't think SONY introduced 3D to consoles, but they made it to be the main focus on consoles.
(i.e. some way of 3D graphics was already there somewhat barebone in some Sega Genesis games, but it never was the focal point of the console)

3d in games goes back earlier than the megadrive, but it was mostly software driven.

Sony were already working on 3d for their real time video effects system called System G. It's not as famous as the systems from Quantel and doesn't seem to have made it out of Japan.

If anything 3do/jaguar & playstation were all conceived independently around the same time in 1991. It's just that 3do & jaguar rushed to market with more expensive or broken products.

it would have been Nintendo, they were into talks with SGI about it since 1992 IIRC.

1993, SGI had tried to sell it to Sega but they were already working on Saturn. Nintendo didn't have anything and so they jumped at it.

You can easily see that the 32X is a desperate move and more than an afterthought, and SEGA with the Saturn wasn't really thinking of 3D as the main mode of operation for the console, powering it up for 3D was also kind of an afterthought after getting to know what SONY was planning to put out.

Sega have also publicly stated that the Saturn wasn't designed for 3d.

 

[WildDog]

When a limited emulator costs 100 bucks and they ask you to buy a power cable with it.
*claps* Scalping like Nintendo did with 3DS XL~

Just get a raspberry pi

The thing is that limited emulator most likely will be hacked to play more games or even other system.. Take a look at the Nintendo minis.
Down the road a Pi3b or Plus are more expensive, once you build the thing to play games... Plus if you play for a long time, you will get the red temperature icon... UNLESS you get a heatsink and a fan (plus the case that supports them), so more $$$$$

 

[kumikochan]

We know that the CPU in the 360 was a result of a design Sony asked IBM to build for the PS3 & yet the 360 came out a year before the PS3.

Either your logic doesn't hold up, or Microsoft had a time machine.

It's not about Microsoft tho. Your logic that Sony came out with 3D first is bullshit logic since there have been consoles before that did it. Even the Commodore 128 did it wich was considered the same as a console in Europe. The jaguar did it before, the 32X did it before. Even the Vectrex did it before and was considered 3D. If you're talking about polygon 3d then the Jaguar did it before and so did the 32x. Let me use your own shitty logic against you. Philips was working aside Sony with Nintendo but the CD-I came out in 1991 so they were even WAAAAAAAAAAAY before the PlayStation. Even the 3DO was a year prior to the PlayStation and was in development for a long time. No your statement that the playstation was first is bullshit, sorry to break it to you