It's now $59.99 on Amazon! Best Buy & Walmart Have it for $59.99 too!
Apparently Sony lowered the MSRP across the board.
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i noticed the same at best buy. i'm on the fence to buy at $60 though.
$100 was no way in hell, $60 is close to worth modifying territory
I would maybe pick this up for $5-$10 just to mess around with it, but I still might not keep it after. Does anyone here really need this for any real reason? Most of the games are common and we would already own legitimate copies of, and anything else could be burned to disc to play in a modded system. Playing PS1 games is pretty easy too as PS1, PS2, and PS3 consoles are pretty common and easy to get. We're all collectors here, I'm going to assume anyone here who's into the PS1 would already have everything they need to play these games already, probably purchased years ago and still owned.
i could see modding it and using it on the go, hotel rooms and what not.
that was my main reason for the NES/SNES versions. SNES mainly because it has more room and an extra controller than the NES
Usually if I know Im gonna be staying at a hotel I will bring my GBA SP and 1-2 games.
Nz17 (01-04-2019)
And the markdowns keep on comin':
The PlayStation Classic's Price Has Dropped To $40
In fact, using a promo code from a company who makes wacky ads about how to pronounce their name, you could even get one for $34.
And no, I couldn't help myself. In my case, I stopped into a local GameStop, where they had over a dozen PS Classics on the high shelf next to a smaller stack of NES Classics priced at the usual $59.99. The clerk said they were having a 'spring sale' and that the PS Classic was $20 off. After some hemming and hawing, I plunked down the $40, and gingerly walked out with my 'prize'. Set it up a little while ago, and thus far have had a nominal amount of fun playing a few of the included games. Haven't really noticed the slowdown issues that much as of yet, though I don't have a lot of experience playing original PS1 games. In any case, should be interesting to look into the possibilities for hacking these things.
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hmm i wonder how much longer until certain stores hit $20
I am thinking that at $40, it is essentially a wash for them, so anything below that means they just need to clear up some space and theyre willing to take the loss.
The only way I can see the PS Classic being a good buy is if one wants to play old games legally and the CDs have gotten to the point where disc rot has made them unplayable and its not possible to download them off the PS Store. So thats a lot of "ifs" but for me, itd be worth it if the discs stopped working on my original console
So how is the modding scene? I'm kinda thinking these might be a decent way to play the original King's Field fan-translated.
I was able to get one from Rakuten a couple days ago with their 15% sitewide coupon code. After factoring in about $5 rakuten points I had, I paid just over $29 shipped. These come with 2 controllers already whereas a Pi you will have to buy controllers. Are these things perfect? Absolutely not, but at a $30'ish price point with 2 controllers I think they're worth it.
I'm not enamored by the Pi as a game system.
My NES and SNES Classics tickle my nostalgia bone. I can easily play my favorite games in, to me, near perfect emulation. Since it sounds like the PSOne Classic plays PS1 games natively near perfect, this would be right up my alley. Especially at those prices.
I had trouble playing translated KF1 on a modded PS1. Whenever I save my game, there's a random chance that the "saving" screen will never go away... meaning the file is corrupted, and progress is lost.
I recently played it on an emulator and that was fine. Its possible it was just that I was using cheap CD-R media but, well... I'm not made of money to keep experimenting with different CD-R brands.
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