Complete disaster of the PlayStation Classic, which despite having better hardware than the original console, performs really poorly for using an open source emulator.
The return of retro consoles has many fans and Nintendo with the launch of the NES has shown that there is a good market. Sony is aware of this and that is why it has launched a new, more compact version of the Original PlayStation, the first that the company launched in 1994. The excessively high price and a rather poor catalog with no games in Spanish, is generating significant criticism among users. users.
Sony receives a lot of criticism for the quality and catalog of the PlayStation Classic.
As with the first console, this one is made entirely of plastic and inside we find a large PCB covered by a thin, rather shabby metal sheet that covers the entire surface and acts as a processor heatsink. We see two USB ports for the controls installed on the motherboard, banishing the old connector and also a microUSB connector for power and an HDMI video output.
We see how the worst of all is the hardware of this device and that is that it has the MediaTek MT8167A SoC that has four Cortex-A35 @ 1.5GHz cores and PowerVR GE8300 graphics accompanied by two DDR3 RAM memory chips of 512MB each working at 1866MHz.
For storage we find a Samsung KLMAG1JETD chip that has a capacity of 16GB and that houses a total of 20 titles previously installed with the operating system and the emulator, which, as we already have, is open source. This has generated controversy because the company charges against the developers of these emulators and now 'steals' one to save time and money, something that is pathetic.
The saddest thing of all is that the performance of this console is worse than the original and is that by using the open source emulator and not an optimized solution, it causes the performance to not be as good as we should expect. Titles in PAL format work at 50Hz, while NTSC titles work at 60Hz. If it is limited to 30FPS the performance is the same, but if this limit is removed we see that the new console performs worse and that supposedly its hardware is 30% better than the original console.
The NTSC-type Jumping Flash game runs at 40-25FPS on the original console while the new PlayStation Classic runs between 25-18FPS, where we see a significant inexplicable performance difference.
Source: Eurogamer
