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Copyright be damned, I'm enjoying the hell out of my $79 machine. It's tipped the scales for me from collector back over to player. Plus my kids are always curious about what I am playing.

Purkeynator wrote:I'm enjoying the hell out of my $79 machine.

I had auto-notify set up on a few places that weren't price gauging on top of the already gauged price. New egg for example. It came back in stock and they hiked the already high price up $10 to $159.99. I think I'm going to wait for the hype to die down then I'll pick one up.

I don't see anything really on this $160 price revision on the R5 being true. Is this some retail scheme to play off the hype?

Tanooki wrote:I don't see anything really on this $160 price revision on the R5 being true. Is this some retail scheme to play off the hype?

It is right on the website: http://hyperkin.com/retro/retron-5.html

and an email:

Well they're dumb. I brought it up with the tech yesterday, while I was sleeping overnight I got written back he was not thrilled to learn about it from me and not the company. They have some nerve.

I wonder what the new hardware looks like. RetroRGB had a good teardown of the initial version: http://retrorgb.com/teardown.html

Wow, makes me feel even more fortunate that I only paid $76.19 for mine.

Got mine on trade credit from garage sale stuffs!!

Id be willing to bet a lot of money that the higher build quality is probably something to do with the pins/connectors. Either a part that allows them to eject more easily or just pins that are sturdier and don't bend as easily.

DonSilvestre wrote:Id be willing to bet a lot of money that the higher build quality is probably something to do with the pins/connectors. Either a part that allows them to eject more easily or just pins that are sturdier and don't bend as easily.

I suspect (as other mentioned) Hyperkin has raised the price in case of a court battle of the emulators.