all those stuff doing and all those official classic mini consoles do is emulating stuff , so just emulate that on your phone , connect some good controller to it and you golden , no need to buy anything more. you allready have device in your pocket with best specs and best screen out there.
Well that is true but for me I love mini consoles like the nes, snes, playstation, etc.
For me it isnt about just playing emulators. I know a lot of people are like "dude you can get just get a rasperry pi and play like a bajillion games", etc. I realize I can run an emulator on a lot of devices and play a ton of games. But I dont want to play a bajillion games, or even a thousand games. I know the easy knee jerk reaction is to just blurt out "but you can do this", well, I dont want to do that.
I have a job, mortage, house to keep clean and maintain, errands to run and so on. I dont have time to play games all day everyday. Plus in my free time when Im not doing chores I like to watch movies and do other things. Not to mention when I do play games I love my ps4 and my pc, so I play a lot of modern games as well and not just classic games. So my game time isnt 100% of my time.
I am nostalgic for my old games I played as a kid and mini consoles are perfect for me. I get to see how the original system looked sitting there, hold a controller I originally held for that system and I get a handful of games for those systems to play on a system I dont need to setup or configure or anything as I just simply turn it on. I can play some games and be satisfied. I dont need, nor want, nor have the time to play every single classic game available.