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Crowdfunded Game Console Is Made Out of Tape, Cardboard, and Fake Circuits
- CM30 11y agoWell, this is an interesting story. Reminds me a bit of the Phantom games console, that 'super system' that never materialised and seemed to be entirely be a scam of some kind. The most important about all this though, and which was mentioned in the video posted in the article, was about where exactly this console would make money or gain support. Cause only a small audience would buy a retro system like this, and it's likely not enough to sustain any real game development or long term business. And with the core of the system being basically the ability to play games from existing consoles, none of these games would ever really make sense as exclusives anyway. Bit like the Ouya that. Just not enough of a market, or with unique enough hardware to really support much in the way in terms of original games.
- kup0 11y agoThat's true. I don't see how any game could make any significant money from this. They would make slightly more being a "bundled" game with the console, but even then, the market for this console itself is incredibly small. On top of that, just a fraction of that market would even concern themselves with buying this. Most of that community is already collecting games for other systems or playing these games other ways. Of course, now that their reputation is shot, the market can basically be considered to be approaching non-existent.
- kup0 11y agoThis has been an entertaining (but unfortunate) situation to follow. It seems they are in a whirlwind of deception and denial now. Their top FB post has comments disabled/invisible. What gets me is even when they were being deceptive, they didn't try hard at all. Did they not expect that people would notice they stuffed an unrelated PCI card into a plastic shell?