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

It won’t make it retired successful 2024 arsenic primitively planned, but Analogue is yet fresh to stock specifications connected its return connected a Nintendo 64. The Analogue 3D will motorboat early adjacent twelvemonth (the institution says Q1 2025) and will costs $249.99. It comes successful either achromatic aliases white, and preorders footwear disconnected connected October 21st astatine 11AM ET.

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

First announced astatine the opening of the year, the Analogue 3D is simply a modern return 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 pinch a bespoke, purpose-built 4K upscaler.”

The institution says the Analogue 3D is 100 percent compatible pinch the N64’s cartridge room (it’s besides region-free) by utilizing FPGA technology, which allows it to usability for illustration the original console. This is bully news for the N64 successful particular, which has proven notoriously difficult to emulate.

The Analogue 3D supports Bluetooth, has 4 original 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 pinch a controller, but 8bitdo has created an updated type 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 pinch the Switch, Android, and PC. You tin besides conscionable usage immoderate original N64 controllers you person lying around.