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I've been seeing a lot of coverage of this thing in various places so I thought I'd check it out.
Personally I'm interested to see where it goes, but I have some major misgivings.
Firstly, the lack of support for HDMI is baffling. Including RCA jacks is a cute touch, but not supporting the most prevalent video-connector type strikes me as idiotic. A bunch of modern TVs and monitors don't even support SD RCA anymore, so it feels like that's cutting off a chunk of the audience.
To make matters worse, I can't imagine many people investing in one at the current price and with the current look of the system. It's like $250 for a system that doesn't look all that great and that has almost 0 games on it.
The creator has said that they're pretty much targeting the "will program for fun" crowd, but they're also on about this being available to a wider audience at some stage, and has started advertising across Reddit and with these articles in various retro gaming sites. Seems like someone's passion project that they're hoping to spin into a new platform without anywhere near the right amount of forethought.
I will be super happy if this does well, proves me wrong, and features a healthy software library, but in the words of a random redditor: "why would anyone develop for this thing when they can make a game for an established platform like Pico-8 or just make a NES ROM?"
What do you guys think? Does thing have any hope in hell of surviving?
Personally I'm interested to see where it goes, but I have some major misgivings.
Firstly, the lack of support for HDMI is baffling. Including RCA jacks is a cute touch, but not supporting the most prevalent video-connector type strikes me as idiotic. A bunch of modern TVs and monitors don't even support SD RCA anymore, so it feels like that's cutting off a chunk of the audience.
To make matters worse, I can't imagine many people investing in one at the current price and with the current look of the system. It's like $250 for a system that doesn't look all that great and that has almost 0 games on it.
The creator has said that they're pretty much targeting the "will program for fun" crowd, but they're also on about this being available to a wider audience at some stage, and has started advertising across Reddit and with these articles in various retro gaming sites. Seems like someone's passion project that they're hoping to spin into a new platform without anywhere near the right amount of forethought.
I will be super happy if this does well, proves me wrong, and features a healthy software library, but in the words of a random redditor: "why would anyone develop for this thing when they can make a game for an established platform like Pico-8 or just make a NES ROM?"
What do you guys think? Does thing have any hope in hell of surviving?
