PlayStation Classic

[Dragon Lord]

From what I read, it's only eight of the games on the Classic that will be PAL versions. The rest will be the NA versions.

Also I can't confirm, but I've read people talking about how it's apparently so they can fit language options into the games or something? I don't know, again, this is just what I've read from other people online.

Either way, good job Sony.

[Moonface]

I expect language is the reason as European games would have had like five options while American versions would likely have less back in those days. Not sure why a fighter like Tekken needs the extra languages though when the only text is the menu.

[Karo]

Hey Moony! I need tekken in german! it is so important to me you don't even know! <_<

I think it just so they can mass produce it and not worry about localizing it for each region.

[Monocle]

Because they're being cheap. Down to everything about it. Don't know about the actual hardware but I wouldn't be surprised if it was cheap plastic too.

Their selection of games was cheap, their use of an open source emulator instead of creating one when they themselves own the source material was cheap, and their creating only two versions of the Classic, Japan and everywhere else, was cheap.

This is the one of their laziest attempts at making money and it'll work.

[Dragon Lord]

That's the new Sony for you. It's only gong to go downhill from here. Strap in for the show, because Nintendo and Microsoft (yes, even Microsoft) are going to be spanking Sony the next number of years.

And yes, people will be stupid enough to buy this and make it a success for Sony. Sad as that is.

[Monocle]

Digital Foundry did their analysis of the hardware and emulation and it isn't pretty.

[Maniakkid25]

Going back to the PAL releases of the games, let's ignore the fact that that means the games are technically running up to 17% slower than the NTSC versions. Um, have you ever tried to play a 50 Hz game console on a 60 Hz TV? Because it's not pretty! This is actually a major f***-up on Sony's part because NTSC and PAL aren't just about frame rates. They're completely incompatible ways on encoding a television signal, so it can and will create all kinds of insane noise when you go one way or the other! People who use capture cards can tell you if your capture card is of a different region, then good luck trying to set it up and not get some kind of noise in the signal. Honestly, watching the analysis Monocle posted, it's amazing they got the compatibility they DID out of these conversions.

Personally, I'll stick to my PS2. Sure, I can't play Legend of Dragoon on PS2 (a known bug prevents advancement past the second disc on PS2), but most other games run well enough on it. ...Should look into a PS3, though...

[Monocle]

Apparently, Vita scene hackers have already hacked the Classic and dumped the firmware lmao.

[Metallix]

I’m kinda interested in this now that it’s $60 and I can put any game I want on it.

I think Sony made it as easy to hack as possible since they couldn’t get the games they wanted on it.

[Monocle]

well, it is still a subpar emulator and being able to side load any iso doesn't change that unfortunately.

[Metallix]

How is it subpar it’s PCSX. It’s what you’d get on your PC. Through a loophole Sony left you can even access the PCSX settings with a keyboard.

[Monocle]

I suggest scrolling up and checking Digital Foundry's video that I posted. It isn't optimized that well for the hardware it runs on so I don't know how it'll run sideloaded games. I haven't researched into it at all because i have no need. modded vita with the internal emulator the psp used which is superior to the classic's emulation

[Moonface]

Even optimisation matters aside, I still think paying $60 for an emulator you could run on a PC for free is still a bit much. It would need to be at least half that again for me to consider buying it as an emulator in a pretty box regardless of how well it runs.

[Monocle]

that's very true. especially since you're talking about side loading games, I don't know how legal you're intent is. What Moonface said is true. If you're going to use it beyond its intended purposes, whether legal or not, you might as well just get the emulator on PC where it'll run muuuuch better and cost less.

[ShiraNoMai]

Yeah at best I'd like it as a collectible to look at, definitely not as a piece of hardware, if I'm honest