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Post by dsparil on Jun 3, 2020 4:45:26 GMT -5
I thought the size was a joke, but it's not??? How is that even playable? Four games on an individual piece of hardware is a total ripoff. At least they put the Shining Force and Last Bible games together, but splitting up the two sonic games just seems like a scammy way to get die hard Sonic fans to buy two.
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Jun 3, 2020 4:50:08 GMT -5
Spreading out the games over 4 systems is...stupid, to say the least. But at least I have to give Sega credit for only including one terrible Sonic game (Sonic & Tails AKA Sonic Chaos). Who in their right mind chose that over Sonic & Tails 2 (Sonic Triple Trouble)? Let alone as one of only 16 games to pick from the GG library? Seriously, why is Sega so obsessed with rereleasing their bad games? Anyway, this is not at all what I personally want from a mini console. Authentic control replicas and a big chunk of classic games is what makes them appealing. This doesn't really go beyond collectors item. I guess having a RPG-centered one for this price isn't too bad, but still. (A gameboy would be amazing, except make it the same size as the original GB cause who in their right mind would want a smaller screen than that? What on earth is the point?) I think a smaller screen would work if it's well-lit, but it would go against providing a accurate controls representation of the GB. In Japan. I can't imagine a western Saturn Mini would be very interesting, nor very representative of the console's strength. A Dreamcast or Master System Mini would make more sense.
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Post by windfisch on Jun 3, 2020 5:17:47 GMT -5
Wow, I hate everything about it. The incredibly small size, the fact that they didn’t put all 16 games on ONE system but instead spread them out so you’d have to buy four versions of them. I’m actually semi-upset and won’t look into this thing anymore. Next! (A gameboy would be amazing, except make it the same size as the original GB cause who in their right mind would want a smaller screen than that? What on earth is the point?) Couldn't agree more. At first I thought "Ooh, that seems neat." But after realizing that it'll be actually "micro" and will feature only 4 games per system, "neat" turned into "collectible plastic garbage".
In case of another Game Boy, I'd want one with a larger screen, one that otherwise* actually replicates the LC display of the original or maybe the Pocket model, but with the ability to light things up (frontlit/backlit, I don't care). I just love pixels that cast shadows under an external lightsource and the transparency effects some games like ZAS produce by utilizing the screen's latency.
And yeah, I know that this scenario is extremely unlikely. So at the very least I'd like some elaborate Retroarch-style shaders.
*(edited for clarity)
No, it's not, since it lacks the important feature of only being able to play a limited number of pre-installed ("curated") games. Choosing games to your liking is so 00.
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Post by Bumpyroad on Jun 3, 2020 6:26:47 GMT -5
No, it's not, since it lacks the important feature of only being able to play a limited number of pre-installed ("curated") games. Choosing games to your liking is so 00.
Yeah, i'd be scratching my head all day if someone got me one of those.
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Post by shelverton on Jun 3, 2020 6:33:39 GMT -5
Oh, so if you preorder all four colors (that is 180 dollars right there for 16 GG games) you also get a magnifying thing so you can actually see the games you're playing.
SEGA is usually so generous with their retro collections so this baffles me. Of course there’s always the possibility that this is released as one system in the west (if at all) but as someone already pointed out, the game selection would probably change drastically.
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Post by dsparil on Jun 3, 2020 7:50:05 GMT -5
According to Famitsu, the original plan was for one game on each!
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Post by Apollo Chungus on Jun 3, 2020 9:09:03 GMT -5
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I genuinely love how stupid and ill-conceived this whole venture is. I'm not usually one to laugh at dumb or shitty things, since they're often harmful and basically going "haha this thing's terrible! isn't that funny" is a mindset I'll never understand. In this case, however, it's not so much offensive or terrible as it is incompetently daft, and the degree of it is really funny to me. Like, the only good idea for this was "Let's re-release the best games from this 90s handheld without the original issues it had so a new generation can enjoy it", and then it somehow became a game of introducing increasingly sillier and sillier ideas to make the end result essentially pointless.
It is a genuinely stupid idea, but I can't hate it. There's no malice behind it, just plain stupidity - and I find that kind of endearing.
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Post by kaoru on Jun 3, 2020 9:15:25 GMT -5
I too like how ridiculous it is. It's the novelty factor of these Mini consoles put to the nth degree. No one's gonna buy this to really play GG games, it is there as a collectors accessory.
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Post by windfisch on Jun 3, 2020 10:17:11 GMT -5
Personally, I find that kind of collector-mentality troubling.
Like, let's waste valuable resources just so that some people with too much money can have a few minutes of fun and then never use it again or never use it at all and put it to their shrine of other unused, sealed, fetishized objects.
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Post by lurker on Jun 3, 2020 11:02:26 GMT -5
It would have made more sense for it to be like the other plugin play systems, with multiple games (and possibly some cancelled, but finished ones), albeit more portable.
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Post by jackcaeylin on Jun 3, 2020 12:15:16 GMT -5
Even if the target group is "collectors only" regarding the Game Gear stuff, which would explain the price andthe choice of games is weird, but understandable. I don't really understand the true purpose from an economic point of view. That is too bizarre for me. I want to understand/see the reasoning from SEGA. The Capcom stick stuff with Alien/Predator Arcade made more sense than this.
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Post by Snake on Jun 3, 2020 12:22:32 GMT -5
How disappointing. I was really hoping to see a Sega Saturn mini announced, however unlikely that may be.
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Post by toei on Jun 3, 2020 13:34:30 GMT -5
I don't really see the problem. It's just some collectible novelty, like every Japanese company makes tons of all the time. People buy tiny figures that cost hundreds of dollars, this is at least somewhat neat.
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Post by shelverton on Jun 3, 2020 15:04:08 GMT -5
Maybe if it was marketed as keychains or something, that just happened to have four built in GG games. And priced accordingly. That would’ve been cool. I guess we have too high expectations for these type of things. The bar has been set pretty high.
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Post by chronotigger65 on Jun 3, 2020 16:34:32 GMT -5
People buy tiny figures that cost hundreds of dollars, this is at least somewhat neat. Especially the ones with removable clothing (removable features?)for the ladies.
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