Quote Originally Posted by Akito01 View Post
I'm not sure I understand the objection. This isn't a ROM player, after all, and neither Nintendo nor Sega is making this hardware anymore. For someone like myself, who have stacks of old carts, this is simply a way to play our legally purchased games where the original console hardware has become scarce or unreliable. If Nintendo started putting out NES's again, I'd buy one instantly, but they aren't, and my original NES rarely plays games anymore. Not everything is available on virtual console, so a machine like this is more of a boon to retro game players than an exploitation, at least as I see it.
I guess the only nice thing about this is that since more people are bound to buy these things, the price of original consoles will most likely go down. As a collector, I have no desire whatsoever to own one. Be it the nostalgia of having to hook up each individual console before I could play the game, or just the different kinds of lights that would show when you powered it on, the convenience factor doesn't outweigh the awesomeness factor.