<story><title>Sega announces a tiny Sega CD retro console</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/06/adorable-japan-only-sega-mega-drive-mini-2-faithfully-recreates-the-sega-cd/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fcsp</author><text>I would really appreciate if those reissue consoles would rather be FPGA based mimics of the original hardware instead of essentially correctly shaped plastic around a raspi and retropie. The perceived success of devices like the Analogue Pocket indicate to me there&amp;#x27;s a market for this, and at the audience scale of first party devices this might actually hit non-enthusiast pricing</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anyfoo</author><text>I do share the sentiment[1], but I also believe that the target market neither cares nor really understands the difference. So from a perspective of both design and cost margins, it just makes much more sense to use whatever cheapest ARM SoCs is available as long as it is still &amp;quot;adequate&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Of course form a hardware hacking perspective, the FPGA would be fantastic, but those toys are not meant for that.&lt;p&gt;[1] Even though my thoughts on what an FPGA can really do better in this situation are &lt;i&gt;complex&lt;/i&gt;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sega announces a tiny Sega CD retro console</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/06/adorable-japan-only-sega-mega-drive-mini-2-faithfully-recreates-the-sega-cd/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fcsp</author><text>I would really appreciate if those reissue consoles would rather be FPGA based mimics of the original hardware instead of essentially correctly shaped plastic around a raspi and retropie. The perceived success of devices like the Analogue Pocket indicate to me there&amp;#x27;s a market for this, and at the audience scale of first party devices this might actually hit non-enthusiast pricing</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toast0</author><text>FPGA probably costs too much for these; and there&amp;#x27;s not likely enough money in them to make an accurate single chip system. (single chip NES asics exist, but accuracy isn&amp;#x27;t quite 100%; I&amp;#x27;ve read that at least one of the atari 2600 retro consoles was built with one and they just ported the games to the NES)</text></comment>