PlayStation Classic

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thirstycurve

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Hello

Who here has bought the recently released PlayStation Classic? How is it? What games are on it? Is it worth it?

Thanks
 
Loot had it for just under R1k a week ago - not sure if they still do but yeah the price seems to be falling fast! i expect it to drop to below R1k permanently very soon at this rate.
 
There was one on demo at my local IC, thought I'll give it go, selected Abe's Oddessy and waited and waited and waited for the game to load and just got fed up and left. It felt like more than 2 minutes but could be less than a minute, I'm used to games starting up instantly.
 
It seems the PS Classic is a major let down. That's a shame it promised to be this great nostalgic thing.
 
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ryu said:
Loot had it for just under R1k a week ago - not sure if they still do but yeah the price seems to be falling fast! i expect it to drop to below R1k permanently very soon at this rate.
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Game still has it at R1799 but this is Game we are talking about.
 
Thirstycurve said:
Hello

Who here has bought the recently released PlayStation Classic? How is it? What games are on it? Is it worth it?

Thanks
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If you youtube a view review videos on it, you will see it is major letdown.

If you want to get it to later hack it and add PS1 roms on it, it might actually be a nice emulator system. However, what SA stores are asking for it, it is way overpriced.
 
Under the hood it seems as if it's more or less on par with the SNES Classic in as far as what it can do.
One would have thought the actual PS Classic hardware should be much more capable seeing as it's a generation newer than the Nintendo offering.
So they even dropped the ball there as well.
 
Chuckmyster said:
That is a massive CRT, mine was a 29" Sansui
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That was pretty massive for the time period, most people had 54cm TVs which were 22" :). Yours was a 74cm TV which looked huge.
 
Lupus said:
That was pretty massive for the time period, most people had 54cm TVs which were 22" :). Yours was a 74cm TV which looked huge.
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Yes it was a 74cm you right, never heard of a 40" CRT back then
 
I saw an old classic cartridge game at game the other day.
Made me lis for some contra/adventure Island.
 
Headsup! its on special again for R999 @ Nexus Retail
 
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-retro-game-console-498561192

What systems can you emulate? A lot of them:

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I don't think a Raspberry Pi 3 has enough juice to emulate a PS2 but the rest looks cool.
 
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