So that happened... With the success of the NES and SNES Classic, it was only inevitable that Sony would follow with a mini version of their own console. After all, Sony has just as much of a legacy as Nintendo does when it comes to old school games.
What we know so far:
- It will release Monday, December 3rd of this year
- It will contain 20 games, including Final Fantasy VII, Jumping Flash, Wild Arms, Tekken 3 and Ridge Racer Type 4. The rest have yet to be be announced
- It will come with two original controllers, not Dual Shock controllers
- It will come with HDMI and a USB cable for power supply.
- USB A/C adapter sold separately
- It will retail for 100 dollars US
Will we see a repeat of the feeding frenzy that ensued with the NES and SNES Classic? Well for starters, it hasn't been that bad yet. I checked Best Buy almost 12 hours after the news was announced and was able to pre-order one. GameStop was also still selling them last I checked yesterday and at the current time of this writing, they're the only ones with pre-orders still available.
Had this been a Nintendo mini system, this would have not been a case. You wouldn't be able to go to any site two days after the announcement and find them still available. We all know the pre-order fiasco for the SNES Classic was even worse than the NES one, selling out in mere minutes after pre-orders went live, and that was with Nintendo having more stock of the SNES versus the NES.
There's several reasons why the PlayStation Classic hasn't sold out yet. One, the news is still fresh. Sony started selling them almost immediately after it was announced versus Nintendo making the announcement for their mini consoles months before. Everyone was primed to immediately bombard store sites the moment sales went live. Two, it could be that Sony has made a far more considerable amount than Nintendo did and they simply haven't run out yet. Three, it could just be that the nostalgia isn't as strong as Nintendo's. Lastly, the price factor and the lack of a fully announced library is what's holding some people off for now.
I expect GameStop will soon sell out of their allotments very soon, and then the rest of the people will have to resort to camping out at store fronts overnight or early in the morning, but I have a much better feeling that they'll be a lot easier to find than the NES and SNES Classics. Still, that hasn't stopped some PlayStation Classics from already being sold on eBay. One went for 360 dollars!
That's nuts. People are already scalping them, which isn't surprising, but they're still available in a couple of places (or were depending on when you read this)! This is scalping culture. This is how we're conditioned now. We automatically assume that they're already sold out, we don't even bother to try to see if they're still being sold. We have no problem spending hundreds of dollars on something provided we have the peace of mind in knowing that we'll get one. This has to stop. We as consumers should have the right to know that if we want to buy something from a company, that company should have that product to sell to us. We shouldn't have to pay an arm and a leg via a middle man who can make two to three times the profit just to get one. So hopefully, Sony, you keep these well stocked so the scalpers don't benefit.
Now, let's talk about the known games so far.
I kind of feel like this is Square's Mario or Skyrim. It's been released on everything. Of course this would be one of the titles included on the PlayStation Classic. After all, it's the defining game of PlayStation's era. It broke a ton of records and also, it was the one Nintendo game that got away. Had it not been for Nintendo's stubbornness, The Final Fantasy franchise may very well still have been exclusive to Nintendo. There's a lot of history to this title that some people don't realize.
With all that said, though, I'm not sure I'll be investing the time to play this again. FFVII is no NES game. It's long. My backlog is also rather long, and I can't even keep up with most current games today. Hell, I still have yet to beat Octopath Traveler. I really would love to play this again, because I just loved everything about it. The battle system, the variety of mini games, the music. Honestly, though, by the time I'm ready to play this game again, the full remake will have been released.
This was an odd selection to be honest. It's one of the first games I got for my PlayStation, but I don't really remember having that much fun with it. It was one of the first games that I remember moving in full 3-D, however, and jumping really high up and seeing the world below did give me a sense of vertigo. I'm actually kind of interested in seeing just how well this game did or didn't age (most likely the latter) and I also know without dual analogue support, it's going to be rough....
This was one of the games I owned. It would be nice to have it again, because I really enjoyed it. It was a role playing game that also had a bit of a western theme to it. I really don't remember much else about it since it was so long ago. I just remember really enjoying the combat system and equipment, finding better "Arms" and having a decent story. Just like FFVII, though, I need to find some time to replay it. RPGs are just so long!
This was when the Tekken franchise really started to get good. I loved playing Tekken because it was such a fast paced and hard hitting fighter. It makes me wonder, though, if they'll put any other Tekken on it as it was one of the more standout fighting franchises on the system.
This one I'm looking forward to because I never played it. I played a lot of Ridge Racer games, but only the first one on PlayStation. The rest were V and after. Just like Jumping Flash, though, this should be pretty interesting to play without analogue support. I wonder what the announcer will sound like, though... "Riiiiiidge Racerrrrrr!"
So, what will be the remaining 15 titles? Here's just some I'd like to see:
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Wild 9
- Metal Gear Solid
- Final Fantasy VIII (just because it got left out of every single version of the rereleases)
- Ape Escape
- Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
- Parasite 1 and 2
- Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit
- Tomb Raider 1 and 2
- Mortal Kombat Trilogy
- Crash Team Racing
- Resident Evil 1 and 2
- Gran Turismo 1 and 2
- Parappa the Rapper
- Suikoden 1 and 2
- Chrono Cross
- Silent Hill
- WipEout
- Einhander
- Twisted Metal 1 and 2
- Intelligent Cube
- Soul Blade
- Dino Crisis 1 and 2
- Syphon Filter
- Driver
- Spider-Man
- Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
Wow, that list grew long and fast. I'm sure there'd be a lot more games that I'd want on it. Honestly, I wish there'd be more than 20 but even then, 20 games would give you a lot of quality time with it. I just hope that the next 15 they announce are great ones.
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