jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I’ve seen this exact claim many times, it was especially prevalent when the Playstation Classic was announced (heh) and yet I am yet to see a single reason as to why this would be so.
NES and SNES nostalgia is and has always been off the charts. PSX, not so much. How many gaming forums have thread after thread discussing PSX games? So why would it “totally smoke” the Nintendo classics?
If/when a PS2 Classic is announced, we can revisit this discussion (even then I have my doubts), but really, I feel this claim has very little basis.
I think this could have "smoked" the NES and SNES Classic systems, but only if Sony would have given people what they actually wanted. If this micro-console had pixel perfect emulation (none of this PAL 50hz crap or slowdowns due to emulator overhead) that would have been a good first step. They could have used POPs - or even replaced the guts with a PSVita TV thing and done better. They also could have included Dualshocks which a lot of people docked points from the system for - myself included. Finally - if they would have added some basic networking services to this, the ability to log in to PSN to download new games (bonus points for letting people get the PS Classics they already own) than this could have been huge. Adding basic trophy support (not as big of an undertaking as people would believe and could definitely be done without the developers being involved) would have made this a skyrocketing success story. But as I've said before in this very thread, I don't think Sony could have delivered on many or any of these goals without raising the price of this pretty significantly and people were already cautious of the $99 MRSP.