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It's pretty impressive to look at and consider the differences in the complexity of the circuit boards in successive generations. It would be very interesting
by russnewcomer 11y ago
It's pretty impressive to look at and consider the differences in the complexity of the circuit boards in successive generations.
It would be very interesting if someone had a chart of BOM costs for the various controllers and systems, to see if the budget for controllers has changed since the NES/Famicon days.
Also of course, if Nintendo really wanted to make a killing, putting the original NES in a controller and selling that with an HDMI port on the end would be sweet. I'd pay $50 for a low-hassle, no-legal-ambiguities way to play NES games with my kid.
- ashark 11y agoThe Classic Controllers on the Wii (and WiiU, I suppose) aren't bad. Good, precise dpad, quick switching between face buttons. A kind of updated classic feel. You can buy quite a few NES games for those systems, among others. The main place you'll encounter problems playing legally on new equipment is with games where licensing issue have cropped up—we'll possibly never see a re-release of Goldeneye for the N64, for example, and some newer versions of games have been stripped of their original soundtracks (Crazy Taxi).
- porsupah 11y agoIncidental to the article, I know, but there's a wrinkle in Crazy Taxi's soundtrack story: for whatever reasons, whilst the console ports feature a new soundtrack, the iOS and Android versions retain the original.