I do see people's points on how it adds up.
Guess I am a bit "distanced" from it all since I know he'll fabricate the next financial emergenREE anyway

Call it naivety if you must.
I don't get the appeal of those "mini" consoles anyway.
If I want to play retro games I emulate them or I have an original system.
Only someone even dumber than Phil would have actually waited all these years to play those games again if they wanted to.
Phil eventually dropping a shit ton of money on the classics console likely will happen... i can already hear the prestream begging
"okay guise now that i've played the Sega system EVERYONE contacted me and asked 'Fill, are you going to play the other retro systems?"
He's the KING OF RETRO after all - that can't capture anything that doesn't have a HDMI port.