Soldato
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What a weird device. Is anyone intending on getting one?
It's a $180 handheld 'console' that comes with 24 games as part of Season 1, and you receive 2 games per week to add up to your 24 games over 12 weeks. The website does not shout about the next season(s) of games being included in the purchase price.
The device is black and white, not backlit, and has a mix of 'timewaster' style and more in-depth GameBoy era RPG style games, so far. Oh, and it has a crank thing as a control input.
I'm not seeing the value in this to be honest. 24 flash-style games with a control input gimmick? One of the games it comes with is literally just snake.
For context, the Gameboy SP was £145 adjusted for inflation in 2003, with a colour backlit screen and was moderately high-spec for the time. Today a raspberry Pi 2 W is a quad core 1GHz 512MB RAM board-thing with a consumer cost of $15!
I don't see the appeal in the crank. It doesn't solve any existing game input problems (controllers and KBMs have basically been the same since, what, 2000?) and I can't see what it adds over having to twirl an analogue stick around - you know, the most annoying kind of mini-game action you have to do.
I like the idea of a cheap device (£50) that has a basic (480p) colour screen and can run fun basic indie games that are put on a storefront for free, for a week, and get updated/rotated like GamePass or you can buy them at £2 a pop or whatever. But surely that could be a service provided on my mobile phone?
Eh its a pass from me but its an interesting development in delivering and playing games!
It's a $180 handheld 'console' that comes with 24 games as part of Season 1, and you receive 2 games per week to add up to your 24 games over 12 weeks. The website does not shout about the next season(s) of games being included in the purchase price.
The device is black and white, not backlit, and has a mix of 'timewaster' style and more in-depth GameBoy era RPG style games, so far. Oh, and it has a crank thing as a control input.
I'm not seeing the value in this to be honest. 24 flash-style games with a control input gimmick? One of the games it comes with is literally just snake.
For context, the Gameboy SP was £145 adjusted for inflation in 2003, with a colour backlit screen and was moderately high-spec for the time. Today a raspberry Pi 2 W is a quad core 1GHz 512MB RAM board-thing with a consumer cost of $15!
I don't see the appeal in the crank. It doesn't solve any existing game input problems (controllers and KBMs have basically been the same since, what, 2000?) and I can't see what it adds over having to twirl an analogue stick around - you know, the most annoying kind of mini-game action you have to do.
I like the idea of a cheap device (£50) that has a basic (480p) colour screen and can run fun basic indie games that are put on a storefront for free, for a week, and get updated/rotated like GamePass or you can buy them at £2 a pop or whatever. But surely that could be a service provided on my mobile phone?
Eh its a pass from me but its an interesting development in delivering and playing games!
