Man, I'm a sucker for these things but I'm having a hard time visualizing a way to keep everything hooked up and looking neat.
I'm moving into a new place in December, and will have a TV room with a nice 5.1 speaker setup and a decent TV. So far, the things I figure I'll be permanently hooking up to my AVR are:
- Cable box
- Xbox One X
- PlayStation 4 Pro
- Nintendo Switch
- Apple TV (laptop / phone / tablet mirroring)
- Nvidia Shield (Kodi / Plex direct-play h265 10bit HDR 4K files)
That's 6 HDMI devices, and the AVR I want to pick up (Denon AVR-x4400H) only has 7 rear inputs if I recall correctly.
That leaves me with: NES Classic, SNES Classic, PlayStation Classic, and potentially more (N64? PS2? GameCube?) down the line to deal with. My main concerns are:
- HDMI mess. I guess I could use an HDMI Switch connected to the last remaining HDMI input and hope I don't end up in handshake hell.
- Cable management hell. Wired controllers in 2018 - why why why why why. There's just no way to keep a room neat if there's all these wired controllers to keep around.
I know I could just keep them away and only plug them in when I actually feel like playing, but I feel that defeats more than half the purpose. The vast majority of the games on these Classic consoles are available on other platforms. The big bonus with the Classics is the old-school "turn on and play" with little to no delay or fancy menus to navigate. But if I have to open a drawer and start plugging controllers and power and HDMI every time I wanna use them, then that convenience is gone.
Anybody else on a similar boat?
