looks cool... a bit big tho

its actually really nice looking

Where do the cartridges go?

@zincrox: Agreed. With the amount of storage memory cards can hold these days, the system should be as big as a card reader.

@TheAdAgency: If you have to ask, you are not ready to know.

Seriously why don't hey make a system with every game ever made for the system on it? Surly there are big enough hardrives by now.
It's probably the same price as adding the old connector.

If you're gonna make the controllers black and red, why not the whole console? I'd like it better if the console matched the controllers.

Throw in a 1Tb hard drive, HD tv, and all the above capabilities, and you have yourself a deal.

@michaelportent: The console would look shitty if it was all black and red, like Freddy Kruger's VCR.

@fastm3driver: You can fit every NES game ever made on a CD with room to spare.

The problem is I have a ton of images and no carts. :(

@stonefry: That's what I'm saying. Is there a licensing issue? Just stick all the games on like a 2gb card.
A system like N64 would probably need a hard drive though.

@Kaiser-Machead:

LOLLLL

@Kaiser-Machead: Ha! That makes me wonder what kind of button mashing he does to watch season 2 of "Growing Pains."

@zincrox:

come on we are talking about a NES here, it comes with the territory

That's hot! It's very retro chic. Though I agree, they should throw in media streaming capabilities, a smooth OS, and maybe a tiny hard drive / flash memory to fit all the old classics on there.

For those of you who hadn't noticed...this is not a physical product, or even a concept design. It's merely a part of that guys graphical arts portfolio. What he though an NES should look like IF someone were to redesign it.
To be quite honest, I'm not sure how this became tech news...

I actually want one!

@SgtMac02: That doesn't mean we can't dream!

Why not just stick a micro atx computer in there, surely there is one out there with enough juice to power a nes emu and media streaming, along with snes, n64 and well, whatever you want really. Well, outside of the 128 bit and up systems. Though pcsx2 is coming along nicely, I was able to run the original dot hack vol. 1 at a sultry 42 frames a second on my lappy which is a centrino duo with 2 gigs of ram and an x1400. I might be able to hit 50 if it wasn't running this craptastic school image.

I had the original NES and lent it to my cousins one day... never saw it again... regret it every single day of my life... no one knows where it is now...

@fastm3driver: The licensing issue is that a "Nintendo Game" is not really 100% property of Nintendo, nor is it exclusively property of Konami or Capcom or Bandai or whoever made it originally.

You'd have to get everyone to agree to allow their property to be on one device. With the retro-trend, a lot of those franchises are being revived, so they're definitely still under ownership (Bionic Commando, anyone?)

So basically, it's a nice thought, but a legal nightmare. That's why the things that DO sort of come close ("100 games in one!" system-on-a-chips, etc.) are grey-market Taiwanese trash. Looks like it's probably emulation or a mile-high stack of cartridges for the NES true believer.

i'd rather have the NES-inside-NES-cartridge system.

Omg that looks sexy!

Wouldn't those square buttons on the controllers eventually slice the hell out of your thumbs? I like the curved console edges, not sure about the red stripe accents.

If you want a universal console, just grab an original XBox, mod chip it, upgrade the hard drive, and install all the emulators and roms you want. Everything from the Atari 2600 through the N64 can be played on it in full glory. Unfortunately, it's an XBox, so it's ugly as hell...

That thing looks awful

Remember the NES 2?:

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Comment on reNESED, The Redesigned NES @atomicplayboy: exactly, I have a completely modded xbox that takes care of every console system and game from atari 2600 - n64.

It needs an internal blowing mechanism so I don't have to take the carts out and blow on them. Maybe a small compressor. Make it load like a VCR where it grabs the cart and seats it inside. Hit the clean button, and it retracts a little, blows both the cart and the inside of the system, then re-seats it.

@cardboardbelt:
Mhm. I have two of those actually. Last I checked Nintendo still sells those "dog-bone" style NES controllers too. They were much more reliable than the toaster model... I have no idea why they changed the design for the US.

It should come with a built in fan that puffs air inside the cartridges upon insertion.

It's a little too faithful to the American NES. Same shape, pretty much the same color scheme (but given the iPod treatment).

It's a bit like all those terrible renderings of what Apple's next product revision will look like -- too much like the previous generation and not enough imagination.

@navstar: It's a RE-DESIGN of an EXISTING THING.

I don't understand why it's still so large (although I actually like the aesthetics)

NES games were, what, like 8bit? a motorola RAZR could run those.

@Pope John Peeps II

That's what she said.

does look pretty cool. love the red + blk color combo

This is Quite sexy, makes me want to repair my old NES and crank up some mike tysons punch out....

maybe, you don't have to blow it before loading.

It probably still has a better (read, more fun) collection of games than current generation consoles.

Javier Segovia? Javier Segovia? The dude's name is very nearly Javier Sega, so where's his Master System concept?

@Brian Sexton: Brian [b]Sexton[/b]......... hey-oooo!!

Ahh, blowing on Nintendo cartridges. The Santeria of video games.

Does it work? Scientifically, no, although I always thought that the "dusty contact theory" was cute. The problem is that if that were true, then adding aerated child spittle to the mix would not theoretically make gaming's version of rubbing chicken bones work.

But it made us feel that it worked, and that's more important.

@John Laur: I have a Generation NEX. It has a better port for the cartridge connection than the original NES, the Wireless built-in, a more compact design, and doubles the original's mono sound to be fake "stereo". Oh ,yeah, it also takes Famicom games. And it's relatively cheap.

I just had a nerdgasm.

I still have my original NES from when I was 4 years old, 1987 and she still works with ONE push of the button. Just shows Nintendo builds mafakas to last

@foureight84: maybe, you don't have to blow it before loading.

That's what she said!

hot

I would buy an snes or n64 version.