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When we started to delve deeper into the iQue Player, we noticed an interesting contradiction.
On one hand, everyone says that the iQue Player is an outdated Nintendo 64, but on the other hand, iQue itself claims that it is a completely new console with separate intellectual property rights, as evidenced by the registration of a separate patent: iQue Player patent.
As usual, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. On one hand, the iQue Player is indeed an outdated Nintendo 64 (hereinafter referred to as N64). Even N64 emulators can run iQue Player games, and people who have hacked iQue Player games say that they are the same as N64 games. On the other hand, if you look deeper, there were changes. Take a look at the list of features from the official iQue website, there are many more features than on the N64.
If it weren't for iQue's strange marketing and decisions, the iQue Player might have been able to realize its additional potential, but we will never know.
Photos
An interesting article with photos (from December 23, 2003) about the release of the iQue Player console has been preserved on the internet. In general, it's a regular console review, but there was one interesting point.
There were three additional options when purchasing the console:
1. 598 yuan (1794 rubles at the exchange rate at that time): the console itself + a starter game + one game of your choice.
2. 646 yuan (1938 rubles): the console itself + a starter game + two games of your choice.
3. 742 yuan (2226 rubles): the console itself + all 5 games (i.e., all the games available at that time).
However, since there was no iQue Depot (a device for recording games onto the console) in Beijing, the console had to be sent to the iQue Ltd. office to have the games recorded.
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