@FX102A Tbh I can... sort of see why? Looking at it, it seems to tap on the market not of competing with other consoles... but rather markets similar to that which the likes of the NES/SNES/Sega minis are meant to cater to: nostalgia and their ilks.
The faux wood finish of the console itself seems also specifically targeted toward the people who recall the era of pre-NES gaming where it was a common features of consoles designs in the west and the general aesthetic of that era... despite not being itself a console of that era. The fact they managed to reproduce that look on the console itself without making it an outright facsimile of an original console of that era(as was the NES Mini to the NES) is actually a neat design trick in fact.
This doesn't mean it WILL sell because of what people pointed out about the games, but at the same time I could see why it MIGHT sell if it ends up selling okay amounts. Plus game-design wises... most of the games featured are very much of the style of a lot of the games previously seen during that era?
Like I can see why that would fail but I can see why nostalgia appeal might still end up working from looking at the design of the console itself. I'm sure that if I showed this to my dad who's in his 60ies, the reactions might not be completely negative.
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@FX102A Tbh I can... sort of see why? Looking at it, it seems to tap on the market not of competing with other consoles... but rather markets similar to that which the likes of the NES/SNES/Sega minis are meant to cater to: nostalgia and their ilks.
The faux wood finish of the console itself seems also specifically targeted toward the people who recall the era of pre-NES gaming where it was a common features of consoles designs in the west and the general aesthetic of that era... despite not being itself a console of that era. The fact they managed to reproduce that look on the console itself without making it an outright facsimile of an original console of that era(as was the NES Mini to the NES) is actually a neat design trick in fact.
This doesn't mean it WILL sell because of what people pointed out about the games, but at the same time I could see why it MIGHT sell if it ends up selling okay amounts. Plus game-design wises... most of the games featured are very much of the style of a lot of the games previously seen during that era?
Like I can see why that would fail but I can see why nostalgia appeal might still end up working from looking at the design of the console itself. I'm sure that if I showed this to my dad who's in his 60ies, the reactions might not be completely negative.