How did I miss this from Hasbro Interactive?  Cool.

As for making a new console which will play the old cartridges, I don't think that would be economically feasible and doubt many would buy them. In my experience people who want to play on real hardware, want the actual hardware.

Perhaps this will change as more and more old systems die out.  In the case of the 2600, while I lost countless hours of my youth to it, there are only a handful of 2600 games worth playing.

I don't see any major player creating such a system.  Perhaps a small, expensive runs, which would make most people use emulators on machines they already have.