Neo Geo Mini Preorder £129

[digweed]

Amazon are taking pre-orders for the Neo Geo mini but has priced them up at £129.99.

I think this is too expensive but what do you think?

Link

 

[K1ngarth3r]

I was on the order page yesterday more than once thinking about buying one but couldn't bring myself to do it.

It's a nice item for sure, it reminds me of one of those crap LCD games from the 80's but with an actual NEO-GEO inside, which is very appealing...

K1ngarth3r2018-09-11 09:30:05

 

[muddymusic]

I was looking at that too yesterday. I didn't realise you had to buy the controllers separately as well which makes it even more expensive. They don't even give you a bloody hdmi cable!

 

[grobda]

an actual NEO-GEO inside

well, some SOIC running an emulator.

should be a nicer interface than a 161-1 cart at least

 

[K1ngarth3r]

indeed, I didn't mean an actual NEO-GEO

 

[big10p]

That's a pretty serious markup. They're probably having these knocked up in China for about a tenner a pop.

 

[Macro]

depends what the hardware used is before I'd go for one

is it an FPGA re-creation, or a raspi variant running an emulator ... I reckon the latter is more likely (and cheaper to knock up)

 

[penrhos]

The Japanese release is better (As usual) - looks better & better selection of games....

I'll be importing one of those once I can get one at cost price.

 

[Macro]

what! - with 10 versions of the same game! - Think I'd go for the international version if I went for anything.

both are missing the games I would want, so have to wait for it to be hacked

 

[Rog69]

Isn't that a £50 mark-up on the Japanese price? I think I will leave it for now.

 

[Venom]

I see there will be a playstation mini.

For me bring on a dreamcast mini !!!

 

[virtvic]

At that price, I’m oot, too.

 

[Brettster]

Solaris Japan are selling the Japanese version for £102 plus about £13 postage and the possible import taxes
https://solarisjapan.com/products/neo-geo-mini-arcade-console-snk
will mean the Amazon one is not too badly priced.

Neo Geo stuff has never been cheap!!

Hoping to pick one up while I'm in Japan in December

 

[Mark H]

How good are these - has anyone bought one yet here ?

 

[Brettster]

I have one, its a nice little ornament
too Small to play on the built in screen, too fuzzy when connected to a TV
mines been out of the box a couple of times to show friends then back into the box it goes, was almost tempted to buy an Xmas edition while I was in Japan, that comes in Red with 8 more games and 2 Red controllers. but decided against it in the end.