Great! If you can find one at a reasonable
price or can wait another 6 months
The unit overall is fun'ish. The short 3-foot
long controller cable makes the console certainly makes it less convenient to
play. The display modes are a nice touch, there are three (3) a CRT filter, to
make your TV look like an older CRT Monitor with scan lines; a 4:3 ratio to
give you the ‘original NES game look’ with a slight horizontal stretch; and
pixel perfect where each pixel is a perfect square to give the user the same
experience as the designer. For video output, the system features an HDMI
connection, which puts out 60 Hz video for all games. If you can find one,
celebrate! If not, beware of counterfeit devices out there and wait until
summer.
The NES Classic Edition
system is a miniaturized version of the original NES released in 1985. Includes a full size NES Classic Controller
but can also be used with NES Virtual Console games on a Wii or Wii U console
by connecting it to a Wii Remote.
I wouldn’t say there are
cons but there are a fair number of ‘would have been great if they had just done
this…’ First of all the availability of the product is slim forcing up pricing,
Nintendo's decision to discontinue the unit as announced in April 2017 and it
was never suggested there would be a limited run on production. As it stands
demand outweigh supply pushing this product up to a price that may not
necessarily be worth the investment. Supposedly there is to be additional units
released in the summer of 2018. There
are only 30 pre-installed games, some decent titles but as these sets are
currently selling about 3-4x the suggested $60 MSRP which is a tough sell especially
since the device cannot play old NES cartridges.
Amazon Product Link: NES Classic Edition