https://www.polygon.com/2018/9/19/17877898/playstation-classic-release-date-price-ps1-games

just pre-ordered


Sony is following in Nintendo’s footsteps with its own miniaturized throwback console: the PlayStation Classic, a new version of the original PlayStation that you can hold in your hand and easily connect to a modern television.

Like Nintendo’s NES Classic and SNES Classic, the PlayStation Classic will come packed with a list of beloved hits from the system’s original library. There will be 20 games in all, but Sony only announced five of them today: Final Fantasy 7, Jumping Flash, R4: Ridge Racer Type 4, Tekken 3 and Wild Arms. “All of the pre-loaded games will be playable in their original format,” the company said in an announcement post on the PlayStation Blog.

Sony plans to launch the PlayStation Classic worldwide on Dec. 3 — the 24th anniversary of the PlayStation’s release. (The PS1 debuted in Japan on Dec. 3, 1994, and Sony didn’t bring it to the West until September 1995.) The retro console will retail for $99.99 in the U.S., £89.99 in the U.K., €99.99 in Europe and 9,980 yen in Japan.

For that price, customers will get the system and two controllers. The gamepads are full-size replicas of the PS1’s original controller, not the DualShock, so they and don’t include analog sticks or vibration. As you can see in the gallery above, the gamepads are wired USB devices that plug into the console in the same spot as the original system’s controller ports.

You can’t pop PS1 memory cards into the PlayStation Classic — save files are stored on a virtual memory card. However, the replica buttons on the top of the system do have actual functions: Power does what you’d expect; the open button swaps virtual discs; and the reset button suspends games. There’s no word on whether the PlayStation Classic will include visual filters or display settings like the options available on Nintendo’s retro consoles.

The PlayStation Classic is about 45 percent smaller than the system it’s modeled after, according to Sony. The back of the unit features only two ports: HDMI-out for video and audio, and micro-USB for power. The package comes with cables for both, but it doesn’t include an AC adapter, so users will need to supply their own or plug the system into a 5-volt, 1-amp USB port.

There also appears to be a plastic cover on the rear of the system, but there’s no word yet on what’s beneath it. (On the original PS1, there was a parallel port under that cover.) A common criticism of the NES Classic and SNES Classic is that there’s no way to get additional games on the mini consoles without hacking them. Could this flap be hiding something like an Ethernet port, with Sony allowing customers who own digital PSOne Classics titles to play them on this retro console? Or is it just for show?

The PlayStation Classic is available to pre-order at GameStop and Best Buy.

I'm coppin.

I care about the controllers more than the games. Those are some excellent fighting game controllers yo.

If not, I can pass.

Can't wait.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkV0P3J1LLQ

I might just make this a gift

Way too many good 2018 (even 2017) releases that will be on sale Black Friday to spend $100 United States dollars on this shit.

They said a lot of people stopped asking about it after the full list of games were announced

not to mention the price smh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYtDSEXPeaw


This dude's schtick is so close to losing me but somehow he keeps pulling me back in, his Red Dead videos were great fun too.


But the basic point behind the video is the one I've been making since the list was announced: the PS1 was by and large a WEIRD system, and should be celebrated for that more than for its big budget moments since many of those haven't aged nearly as well. The ones that have, like Tony Hawk, are licensing nightmares. This should have been an RPG and esoterica machine with more shit like Wild Arms and Jumping Flash rather than Resident Evil or GTA.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU0dn9pRKuw

Seems like a real half-ass, poorly thought through product.

I have one I can use but not sure the person I am going to give this too does.


edit

don't read my own posts, lol

>The package comes with cables for both, but it doesn’t include an AC adapter, so users will need to supply their own or plug the system into a 5-volt, 1-amp USB port.