Here are some more pics: http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/26/8850397/analogue-nt-premium-nes-nintendo-console
I can't see the bottom of the screen, the cart keeps blocking it. If the design hid the cart while in use, it'd look more appealing.
Maybe different ones, but these pictures came out today. I personally haven't seen any internals of the unit until today.
I have to call bullshit on the TV screenshot. Check the Final Fantasy shot, the very top part of the screen seems to overlap the TV bezel by a few pixels. I think the screenshots are photoshopped, probably from emulator.
Yeah they looked photoshopped to me too. Dunno about emulator shots, but they are definitely 'mockup' type pictures.
They may very well be screenshots of the actual games on the Nt via RGBS or HDMI. They do look out of place to me so they probably did take a screenshot and put it onto the TV in photoshop.
somehow it was different in my memory last year when I saw the pictures, nonetheless it still good looking specially in blue.
Looks poor quality to be honest. For $500 you best be getting a much better quality of component. They don't even buy used nes and use real cpus..looks like famiclone chips.
It doesn't look bad. But saying that NES is the most iconic console is just dumb IMO. It's just too old... SNES was more popular AFAIR. But why a "premium manufacturer" does not invest in controllers instead of this useless console? Controllers!!! For SMS, MD, NES, SNES, SAT, N64...
They are catering to the 40-50 year old with money who thinks nes is only system that was good. This changes each generation.
They're using the original chips as far as I know, and the quality must be good considering that they are made out of a solid block of aluminium. http://www.analogueinteractive.com/products/analogue-nt-information
It's a nice quality board, but not really anything special - just black core, transparent soldermask and 2mm FR4 board. I think it might be 2oz copper, too, although it's a bit hard to tell from the photos. They seem to be using rather small vias given the size of the tracks, but that might just be because te PCB house can handle it and they liked the look. That little switching regulator board is interesting - looking at the PCB layout I suspect it was designed to use a linear regulator, but that had a problem with overheating and they changed over to a 3-terminal type switcher. The other thing that strikes me is that the edge connectors look like single-spring commercial grade parts - they are normally rated for 50-500 mating cycles depending on vendor, although in practice they will last much longer. To be fair, the original Famicom was like that, too.
There's a thread about this on this very forum. http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/analogue-nt-an-rgb-nes-and-famicom-no-emulation.50737/
The Verge article mentions Kevin Horton as the lead video hardware engineer. Isn't that Kevtris, the person who is developing the Hi-Def NES (NES HDMI conversion kit)? Didn't know he was involve in this project too. Weren't people speculating that this system was utilizing Tim Worthington's NESRGB kit at one point? I guess that's not the case anymore.
I wonder how many units they will actually sell. This is a sexy thing, although I would prefer the Retron5 even with all of its problems.
The Retron 5's problems make it not worth it. Wait for this beast: http://www.cybergadget.co.jp/retrofreak/. I might actually pick one up for the sake of convenience, even though I have all those consoles.
