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Again, the comparison or value to the specific group isn't what's factoring in to my question. To HOW MANY people they can sell this to and make it worth it in the end for the company is whay I'm curious about. Even globally, I don't imagine there are THAT many people with a physical collection of N64 games that don't already have the console and are otherwise looking to replace it. Thats why I'm saying the crowd to market to must be incredibly specific.
This Analogue group is very specialized in high-end, non-emulated resurrections of old consoles. They're known for their passion & product quality, and also a shitty website UI. In my opinion. It sucks. Can't be good at everything, I guess, and you struggling on their website isn't their problem.
So as you noted, they're charging enough for their product...and quite often when they do a limited run release (especially on a brand new console), they sell out within minutes. Sometimes they'll do a restock, much later, if they feel like it.
I also don't want to get anyone in trouble, buuuuuut it is heavily implied that while their hardware doesn't involve emulation of any kind, there may or may not be physical cartridge emulators that can run ROMs of all kinds of games. Legal & not so legal. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯