Analogue’s 4K Nintendo 64 launches next year for $249

It won’t marque it retired successful 2024 arsenic primitively planned, but Analogue is yet acceptable to stock details connected its instrumentality connected a Nintendo 64. The Analogue 3D volition motorboat aboriginal adjacent twelvemonth (the institution says Q1 2025) and volition outgo $249.99. It comes successful either achromatic oregon white, and preorders footwear disconnected connected October 21st astatine 11AM ET.

In summation to the timing and price, Analogue besides released the archetypal images of the console:

First announced astatine the opening of the year, the Analogue 3D is simply a modern instrumentality connected the N64, akin to erstwhile Analogue consoles covering the NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, and Game Boy. The caller console tin render classical games successful 4K and includes aggregate show modes to mimic the look and consciousness of a CRT display. Analogue says it’s “designed with a bespoke, purpose-built 4K upscaler.”

The institution says the Analogue 3D is 100 percent compatible with the N64’s cartridge room (it’s besides region-free) by utilizing FPGA technology, which allows it to relation similar the archetypal console. This is bully quality for the N64 successful particular, which has proven notoriously hard to emulate.

The Analogue 3D supports Bluetooth, has 4 archetypal controller ports, 2 USB ports, an SD paper slot, and a caller operating strategy dubbed 3D OS, which you tin get a glimpse of below:

It doesn’t travel with a controller, but 8bitdo has created an updated mentation of the N64 gamepad — minus the 3rd prong — that is being sold separately for $39.99. You tin spot it successful the photograph astatine the apical of this article. It has a Hall effect instrumentality and is besides compatible with the Switch, Android, and PC. You tin besides conscionable usage immoderate archetypal N64 controllers you person lying around.