Topic: Would You Buy a Rereleased Older Nintnendo Console If The Switch 2 Got A Price Increase

This, more or less. If Nintendo wanted to offer a digital to sell customers copies of SNES games to play. . .well, they already have a device that can do that: the Switch. A dedicated device would be silly, since it'd basically just be a fancy limited-function modern console. It might be somewhat cheaper, if it were limited to just the SNES, but much beyond that and you'd barely have any savings vs Just Buy A Switch.

The main point of mini-consoles like the SNES Classic was to offer a fundamentally different product, with a fundamentally different pitch to a different market. Being self-contained was a feature, not a bug. Probably the best way to think about them is that they aren't consoles, they are collections. The SNES Classic is a retro collection of 21 games, that just happens to be self-playing.

Tbh, with Xbox's embarrassing decline and disinterest in being a console maker, I've honestly wondered if Sega shouldn't try to release a Microsoft approved, Xbox Game Pass enabling console that also has a bunch of their old games and can be a Sega classic console in case it otherwise fails.

Partially because a Sega Dreamcast re-release in some sort would be awesome and deserves the success it never got, partially because we could use a 3rd console this gen that is actually successful and relevant.

@kkslider5552000
Yea, wouldn’t it be nuts if Sega somehow got back into things? It’s never gonna happen, but that would actually be pretty cool.

Dang. I’m so old and jaded that now I just want the video game market to go back to the 90s lol

I'd tend to think of the NES and SNES Classics as primarily ornaments that you could play the occasional game on. The same goes for the Mario and Zelda Game & Watches.

Once you start trying to apply the same idea to more advanced systems that are trickier and less accurate to emulate and have appreciable licensing costs for their better games, the price would increase pretty quickly. The idea of a Dreamcast Classic, for instance, might sound attractive until you realize that you might have to pay a couple of hundred dollars for it, and it'll only come with a selection of first-party games.

@Matt_Barber
With that said Dreamcast is incredibly easy to emulate these days and while the games are significantly larger than previous generations 32GB is thumbdrive at the supermarket tier capacity these days and would store a fair number of Dreamcast games

N64 is slightly trickier to emulate well and PS2/GC/Wii another tier above in terms of requirements. So those systems add more of a challenge. And when you get to DVD sized games suddenly the most budget capacities aren't quite enough for a collection. But even then it's certainly not impossible

Nintendo could release a console in form factor of NES that includes every first party title up until (and with similar capability of) Wii.

Shouldn’t be overly expensive, while could be a windfall for them, especially if require NSO (to access later gen titles) after a year or so.

Allow an internal ROM of ~128gb to be rewritable, while also include optional Micro SD expansion.

@Matt_Barber I think they should be releasing the systems and games again.

Being someone who's one of the few on here who does not like the Switch 2's high price, worried about price increases, and is afraid of being priced out of this hobby I've been a part of my whole life. I wouldn't mind if there were older consoles to purchase, but I wouldn't want it to be a 1 to 1 of the console.

For example, I have a GameCube, I wouldn't want it to be another GameCube, since would just become a spare system (I actually have an extra GameCube as a spare I got on deep discount a very long time ago, just in case mine stops reading discs). I'd rather be it a console with games built in. Basically like the mini systems.

I would love a small Nintendo 64 with N64 games built in that's fairly priced, just so I can keep enjoying Nintendo games. I do play current games on Switch, but I love playing classic games, especially ones I missed out on. Even though I don't like paying for online multiplayer (I'm a PC gamer too, what did you expect, lol), I will admit, the Nintendo Classics has been the one thing I do like about NSO. I like playing classics I missed out on, it's why I've been playing Tuff E Nuff on NSO lately.

If they made an all digital mini-console (I'm guessing that's what you mean @Nep-Nep-Freak) with downloads of classic games I could buy, I wouldn't mind it if it was affordable. This is coming from someone who likes physical games too.

I must admit with all that is happening with Dreamcast at the moment with versions of Starfox, Mario 64, Mario Kart, Grand Theft Auto 3, Duke Nukem Atomic, Postal etc. It feels like a lot of great games are coming to it to play again with a slightly different feel. I probably should dust off my old Dreamcast and fire it up again.

No, because i bought a Switch 2 last month exactly for this reason. Beat them on time people.