QUOTE | "The Grand Theft Auto series - and the games that make up this iconic trilogy - are as special to us as we know they are to fans around the world. I'm thankful Take-Two and Rockstar Games generously provided us with a cautionary tale to emphasize that remakes and remasters are not necessarily the same thing as preserving history or making it accessible to new audiences. Polymega can play more than 90% of games from the NES, Genesis, Super Nintendo, TurboGrafx-16, Sega CD, 32X, Neo Geo CD, PlayStation, Saturn, and soon the N64. QUOTE | "There are virtually no other options out there for playing the N64 library legally, outside of the original hardware - so it's an obvious choice for us" - Playmaji CEO Bryan Bernal, saying the company prioritized adding support for Nintendo 64 cartridges to the Polymega due to customer demand. I'm thankful there are a number of retro hardware companies out there like Playmaji, Analogue, Blaze, and Hyperkin working to make the games of yesteryear more accessible, and showing the larger companies and rights-holders that there's a growing audience interested in playing their back catalogues, and willing to pay for it. Positivity isn't really my strong suit, but I'm thankful this job continually challenges me to get outside my comfort zone.
So in the absence of one big story or overriding theme to the week's proceedings, I'm going for the easy seasonal gimmick and focusing on some of the things I'm thankful for in this industry. It's Thanksgiving weekend in the US and most of us at aren't actually based in the US, so we're here at work without a whole lot of news to write up for a change. This Week in Business is our weekly recap column, a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends.