Also, I would never let someone else talk about you like that because you are my friend. Benj is also my friend. Don't talk about him like that. 
Well, I don't know what to tell you. I own a NEX and 90% of what he said about it is either extremely exaggerated or simply not true. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the sound, for one thing. It plays every NES game I own, except for the unlicensed Tengen carts, and my NES collection isn't exactly small.
For example, he goes on about how bad the compatibility is. As already indicated earlier, they provide a game compatibility list on their website, and guyjin posted a list a few messages back. There's like 10 games out of thousands that it won't play. Big f*cking whoop! If there were only 12 games available for the NES, that would be one thing. But there's not, there's thousands. And out of the 10 it won't play, the only game of consequence is Castlevania III. That's pretty damn good if you ask me. He claims the "colors on all games" seem "a little strange." He also says this is "
huge bummer". If this is the biggest bummer he's got going on in his life, I'd love to hear his secret. Either way, again, not true-- there are like 2 colors in a handful of games that are slightly lighter or darker shades of what they are on an original NES. A casual gamer would never notice, and honestly you have to be in a pretty anal retentive mood to nitpick that. If it bothers you, you can do what I did and have special video setting preset on your TV that corrects for it. To be honest, the only reason I ever noticed was because I read that article before buying one and therefor was looking for the inconsistencies he mentioned.
I could go on and on, but most of the article is hogwash. It's too bad he's your friend, but the fact remains that most of what is written there is misinformation. It's not 100% fact, unfortunately, since my NEX doesn't have the issues his supposedly did. Maybe the early models were crappy or something, who knows.
About the only thing he hit on the head was the pack-in controllers it comes with sucking. But that's no big deal-- you can use any NES-compatible control device with it.
It's a killer console for what it is (a NOAC), but a genuine top-loading NES is probably the pinnacle of NES gaming (as long as you mod it for A/V out).
