You guys argue over every silly and stupid thing unrelated to the release of the Super NT, lol.
Analogue has already cleared the bar that they aimed for with the Super NT -- the very best Super Nintendo successor for these contemporary times. Most of you are also talking about a possible jailbreak feature that people outside of the retro scene (but interested in the console & the SNES) has no clue about yet. As far as they know it's just an updated SNES clone console system, a clone for a system that was for many people one of the very best consoles ever made in their childhood.
If there was an argument to be made for cores it should look like this: This console will be competing in an arena that includes the Retron 5, as well as many clones that can play 2-3 other systems in one and the NES/SNES Classic, a console that has been hacked from hell to back to play other consoles' games. Also the retropie and Retrocade and consoles like that. It's very likely that Kevtris will allow for cores in the Super NT not because of the competition, value of the cores, or even legality of the cores. It may be a more simple reason -- Kevtris is an engineer who loves to reverse engineer systems and re-implement them into FPGA -- implementing them into the Super NT will allow for him to continue the trend on a much more powerful FGPA than the one used in the Nt Mini. It also allows him to continue to develop and debug said cores for the Zimba 3000, a console we know he's still working on. Not only this, but he also takes pride in the technology that he has developed and the fact that he can bring high quality cores in RGB to the masses if they use the jailbreak feature. If you want to see this as fact, simply watch the unlisted My Life in Gaming episode on the Nt Mini and skip beyond the 2 hr mark when Kevtris takes questions from the chat.
Cores or no cores, this console will sell exceptionally well regardless.