In late 2016, Nintendo introduced its NES Classic Mini, a miniature and modern replica of the 8-bit console from our childhood. A console containing thirty pre-installed games, and the following year by Super Nintendo Classic Mini, which contains a total of 21 games.
Will the Nintendo 64 Mini see the light of day?
Obviously, players around the world are looking forward to the continuation of the collection, with the Nintendo 64 Mini in 2018, followed by the Game Boy Mini next year… However, after that Nintendo no longer offers a ‘Mini’ console. a replica of Super Nintendo. At the end of 2020, the Japanese giant was launched ‘n “newsGame & Watch, Limited Edition Super Mario Bros..
In 2021, some gamers still hope to buy the Nintendo 64 Mini by the end of the year. However, it turned out that the operation for Nintendo was much better. Indeed, except that you must then suggest a replica Nintendo 64 controller (terrible), the Japanese group is having another problem here.
Concerns about games
Of course, Nintendo could offer the Nintendo 64 Classic Mini, with about twenty home hits, including two Zelda, Super Mario 64, StarFox 64, F-Zero 64, Yoshi’s Story, Pokémon Stadium, Super Smash Bros., Paper Mario … The however , setup can quickly raise issues regarding important titles like Perfect Dark or GoldenEye 007, signed Rare (now at Microsoft).
Likewise, Nintendo is currently unable to integrate certain titles, however iconic, into its Nintendo 64 Mini. Granted, right now it’s unthinkable to see Nintendo present a console with Conker’s Bad Fur Day of Turok, but two monuments to the console.
Also attention to the eyes
If 8 and 16-bit games have aged well enough, we have to admit that restarting Nintendo 64 games today (and then a little bit) is a real ordeal. We were in the late 90’s, early 3D, and a lot of games today are looking bad enough for the retina, including Revolutionary Super Mario 64, included in the Super Mario 3D All Star lineup.
To this is added a game design and a camera game that in 2021 might not do well with that many players anymore …
Of course, it’s not impossible to see the Nintendo 64 Classic Mini land one day, but as it is PlayStation Classic, which will take the risk of mentorpedo certain memory between players on one side, but also (and most importantly!) to offer a console that will inevitably lack certain important hits.
Not to mention the fact that Nintendo Switch Online has been able to offer quite a number of N64 games, as it already offers a lot of NES and Super Nintendo games …
