looks cool but can games be played in portrait mode? The trailer shows digdug and pacman in landscape mode with the actual gaming area being a fraction of the screen...

I thought I read Pachter....

@PinkFloyd2003: glad to hear they fixed the audio problems! I have an earlier version and that was the only real complain I had.

cool, I didn't know. Is Nintendo selling them at $100 each? :)

Is this article for real? The Flashback series of classic consoles date back way earlier than Nintendo NES mini. Wireless controllers have never been that good on ATGames consoles but they are just an option (and rechargeable batteries can be used) and original wired ones are the way to go (try using wireless ones on the NES mini, oh wait... you are stuck with a very short cord there!)

And on a screenshot with games such as Alex Kidd, Alien Storm and Altered Beast and all you see is Air Hockey!?!?

I honestly think the NES and SNES mini are "the" quick "cash ins" with only a handful of built-in games and no expansion possibility at all, not this. Nintendo can clearly do much better than this if they wanted but... it looks like they don't want for some reason.

Seriously, I have too much respect for you guys and I have been reading Gamespot regularly since the year 1999 but, if i hadn't, I would think this piece was written by an upset Nintendo PR junior guy who is afraid this Genesis can cut their "mini" market share like it happened in the early 90s for the "big" consoles...

Getting hyped about Ready Player One though the trailer just shows a few glimpses of the Oasis as a future virtual world and not how they recreated the virtual 1980s within it, which is the most interesting part for me!

85 games and cart port: learn how to do things properly, Nintendo!

This is going to be an Android box like Ouya...

I didn't like Rez Infinite too much honestly. Polybius plays much better IMHO

@joshrmeyer: LOL. Sorry for being cryptic. I thought it was obvious I was talking about the overall sales for each generation back in the day, not the sales today to our enthusiastic retro gaming community! Let me rephrase then:

NES: 61.91 million units sold

SNES: 49.9 million units sold. (note the Mega Drive could have BC and that was used by SEGA in its marketing as a sensible advantage over the competition)

N64: 32.93 million units sold

Gamecube: 21.74 million units sold

See the decline now? None had BC. Wii sales, with BC, skyrocketed. Now, I also don't believe BC was determinant for the Wii overall success, but it may well have played a little but potentially significant role in the early and transitioning days, and it's still a handy feature to play some old gamecube classics.