Nintendo fans in love with gorgeous new console you can order this month

Don’t get too excited, the Nintendo Switch 2 hasn’t shadow-dropped out of nowhere. Technically, this new Nintendo console is neither “new” or officially “Nintendo”.

The Analogue 3D is a “reimagining” of the Nintendo 64 that’s being developed by folks at Analogue, a console manufacturer that remakes and upgrades older, classic systems.

They’ve previously worked on the Super NT and the Mega SG in the past, but good luck getting your hands on one of those any time soon as they’ve been sold out for a while now.

However, if the Analogue 3D looks like the type of thing you’d be interested in then you may want to pre-order one ASAP for the low, low price of… oh my god this thing costs $249.99? Isn’t that exactly how much the original Nintendo 64 retailed for back in 1996?

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So what exactly are you getting for all of that money? We’re talking about a system that’s almost 30 years old at this point, so this thing better also do my taxes for me at that kind of price point.

Well for a start, the storefront for the Analogue 3D boasts that it has “10x the resolution of the original N64” and can display your old games in “4K resolution”.

It’s also “100% compatible with every original N64 game ever made” and it’s even region-free, so all of your old games will work with the Analogue 3D straight from the get-go.

Now, personally, I’m not sure that the idea of playing games that were designed to be displayed in 320x240 resolution on a 4K screen sounds particularly appealing. You’ll probably end up seeing some of the seams of these games that the developers knew would be obscured.

Apparently that’s something the folks over at Analogue took into consideration though, as they explain that the system’s “original display modes” are supposed to reproduce the “unmistakable essence of a CRT”. That’s a cathode-ray tube television for anyone under the age of 20 reading this.

Whether that’s worth the price or not is entirely up to you. Of course, if you’re saving up for a Nintendo Switch 2, perhaps this wouldn’t be a sound investment in the long run.