Playstation Classic Mini System

ballboff

@thelostsoul said in Playstation Classic Mini System:

Finally... we all knew that this will happen sooner or later...
I am a little bit disappointed that the gamepad does come without analog sticks. There are games which needs 2 of them, Ape Escape comes to my mind and racing games also benefit from analog sticks or someone just prefers to play certain games with analog stick, when it is optional. Does it use standard psx controller connection? It looks like, but probably it is much smaller and just a regular USB connection? Would be cool if the current PS4 wireless gamepads would be compatible.

20 games is just ridiculous low like the SNES Mini. There are too many games missing, its not possible to cover the most important games with this limitation. I have currently 51 PSX games installed and thats only because of "low" storage capacity. Maybe Sony does what Nintendont and Chrono Trigger will be integrated. ;-)

I find it odd that they haven't disclosed the full list yet. Surely if they had titles like tomb raider, gran turismo and crash bandicoot on there, they would want to sing and dance about it.

A Former User

So many of the best games on the Playstation were third party, so I am going to guess they are still working some stuff out. Seems strange that would be the case though if you are announcing it right now for release in three months...

BobHarris

@ballboff Could be a strategy...they will be in the news again every time they announce other games..build the hype train

ballboff

@livefastcyyoung said in Playstation Classic Mini System:

So many of the best games on the Playstation were third party, so I am going to guess they are still working some stuff out. Seems strange that would be the case though if you are announcing it right now for release in three months...

Yeah i've had a look at some of the companies that made their games, and all the sony ones would probably be on there such as syphon filter, crash bandicoot and maybe gran turismo could be good shouts. But they might see that as being a conflict of interests since they have new versions of GT. Crash bandicoot is available on the ps1 downloads from psn, so that could be well high up on the list. Games like metal gear solid and tomb raider might be more tricky. Twisted metal was another one that sony did I think. Tbh though with a system such as this whatever titles you put on it, will be top quality. What a system!

ballboff

As for the price, I think they've got that right on the money. Slightly more than the snes classic upon release, but a slightly newer console, so it figures. PS1 isn't that easy to emulate either, so there's none of this "you can build one yourself" sort of nonsense we got with the snes classic. Releasing just before christmas too, nice move sony, very nice move! I'm excited :)

A Former User

@ballboff said in Playstation Classic Mini System:

@livefastcyyoung said in Playstation Classic Mini System:

So many of the best games on the Playstation were third party, so I am going to guess they are still working some stuff out. Seems strange that would be the case though if you are announcing it right now for release in three months...

Yeah i've had a look at some of the companies that made their games, and all the sony ones would probably be on there such as syphon filter, crash bandicoot and maybe gran turismo could be good shouts.

Sony lost the rights to Crash Bandicoot and Spyro some time back so they aren't considered first party titles anymore.

thelostsoul

@livefastcyyoung I fear the same could happen with the N64 Classic Mini, no Rare games! Imagine a N64 Classic Mini without Banjo Kazooie, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and Diddy Kong Racing. Games, which defined the system.

sirhenrythe5th

@thelostsoul well, they have Mario64. MarioKart64, StarFox64, Zelda - Ocrina of Time & Majoras Mask....
Of course the Titles you mentioned will be hardly missed, but that Lineup above will get a lot of people buy the N64 Mini IMO.

Barcrest

Each time a company launches one of these I expect them to follow it up with more efforts to close down rom sites. It makes sense for them to do so.

PokeEngineer

@lilbud

Oh, crap! I grew up on the PlayStation 1 alongside the NES and the Wii, so I'm hyped!

lilbud

@pokeengineer I grew up on Gamecube, Wii and DS.

Rion

I grew up on C64, Amiga, Nes, Sms, Snes & Ps1

FlyingTomahawk

Another xxxxx mini or xxxxxx classic
yawn bored...

ballboff

@barcrest said in Playstation Classic Mini System:

Each time a company launches one of these I expect them to follow it up with more efforts to close down rom sites. It makes sense for them to do so.

that will come, don't worry.

Capeman

@lilbud said in Playstation Classic Mini System:

Now all we need is a new Wild Arms or a remake (pretty please?)

Have you ever played Wild Arms Alter Code F on ps2? It’s a full remake of the first one and not too bad.

lilbud

@capeman I tried it, but it wasn't my thing. I greatly prefer the original.

ruckage

@flyingtomahawk said in Playstation Classic Mini System:

Another xxxxx mini or xxxxxx classic
yawn bored...

I kind of understand but I still get a little bit excited when these are announced - if only because they look cute. Having said that I'm less excited for the mini version of the PS1 as I don't think many of the games have aged well (doubly so for when the inevitable N64 mini is announced) and there was already a mini version of the playstation called the PS One which was equally cute. I don't think these classic consoles are really aimed at us though.

And why are none of these companies adding an SD slot and selling additional game packs. It would extend the life of the console and provide extra revenue for the company. Seems like a missed opportunity to me.

lilbud

@ruckage people think that this is just a repurposed PSTV, and I wouldn't put it past Sony.

I feel like not having expandable storage works in their favor. Because instead of putting out a new game pack, they can just put out a whole new "classic" system.

Though give it sometime and this thing will be hacked. The dev behind the SNES Mini hack has plans to hack this as well. So once fans have expandable storage mods, then I feel that this will be a nice thing to pick up off the clearance shelf.

ruckage

@lilbud
Absolutely, I'm certain it will be hacked. And I agree there business model is probably just to sell new units with different games.

I still think it would have been far more interesting to actually have games for sale and on the cartridge based systems they could have even had miniature versions of the carts, people would have loved that.
Nintendo could have done a whole amiibo tie in with a character model from a game packaged with a working cart for the nes/snes classic. Collectors would have lapped that up.

lilbud

@ruckage said in Playstation Classic Mini System:

I still think it would have been far more interesting to actually have games for sale and on the cartridge based systems they could have even had miniature versions of the carts, people would have loved that.

Selling actual mini carts for these systems kinda goes against the market they are targeting. They go after the people who don't want all that trouble, they just want a plug and play system that is ready to go. If people wanted carts, then they can just go get a pre-owned system or use their original.

If the games were for sale individually, here is how it would most likely work:

Company announces plans to sell little carts to play more games.
The games come out in a drip feed, around once a month, and it's never the games people want. It will end up being the games people have bought 45 times (Mario 1, Zelda 1, DK, etc.)
Rinse wash and repeat with a whole new "classics" system.