5th November 2016, 12:15 AM
Yeah, that is kind of odd, but they probably just chose the cheapest option that got them enough power, and it happened to be more powerful than some now-aging consoles. Heh.
As for the NES Mini, the concept is good, but I don't think I'll get one; I have most of those games on cart, and while not having to deal with dying old batteries is nice for the ones with saving, I have some in newer releases of some as well (GBA Zelda 1, etc.) to help with that. For people who don't own most of the games already though it looks like a nice thing to have. It's good to see Nintendo finally get into the classic standalone system market, which has of course been quite popular for many years now.
The one issue I see with this system, beyond the un-upgradable game list which is a standard issue with these things, is as you say the very short controller cable. What are you supposed to do, sit two feet in front of your TV? That's absurd! And it's not like it comes with really long HDMI cables either, so I have no idea what Nintendo was thinking. Apparently the cable is even shorter than that on a Wii Classic Controller Pro. You could get a Wii adapter port extension cable, since such things exist, but there's a problem there...
Additionally, in order to quit back to the menu to change games or save a savestate, you need to hit the reset button, which, remember, is on the console. So you really need to be sitting right in front of the console to use is fully, but few people do that! So yeah, big issues there. Hopefully people like it anyway so Nintendo keeps making things like this.
As for the NES Mini, the concept is good, but I don't think I'll get one; I have most of those games on cart, and while not having to deal with dying old batteries is nice for the ones with saving, I have some in newer releases of some as well (GBA Zelda 1, etc.) to help with that. For people who don't own most of the games already though it looks like a nice thing to have. It's good to see Nintendo finally get into the classic standalone system market, which has of course been quite popular for many years now.
The one issue I see with this system, beyond the un-upgradable game list which is a standard issue with these things, is as you say the very short controller cable. What are you supposed to do, sit two feet in front of your TV? That's absurd! And it's not like it comes with really long HDMI cables either, so I have no idea what Nintendo was thinking. Apparently the cable is even shorter than that on a Wii Classic Controller Pro. You could get a Wii adapter port extension cable, since such things exist, but there's a problem there...
Additionally, in order to quit back to the menu to change games or save a savestate, you need to hit the reset button, which, remember, is on the console. So you really need to be sitting right in front of the console to use is fully, but few people do that! So yeah, big issues there. Hopefully people like it anyway so Nintendo keeps making things like this.