FJosh

I see some of you guys playing this, how is it? Worth $30 or not really?

In my opinion, very little.

Yes but that's only because most of what Steam has to offer is Unity shovelware asset flips. If you're asking if a $180 laptop can play modern games, I very much doubt it. You'd have a better experience, by far, saving up the extra $70 and getting an Xbox One S or for the same price (or less used) a 360 or PS3.

Something for Atari to think about if using Android is how easy and rampant piracy is on the platform.

I loved (still do) my Ouya. I really didn't and still don't understand the hate it got.

The only way they could interest me, if this is basically just an Android box, is if they use the Nvidia X2 SOC. I don't see that happening though, Nvidia is probably tied up on that front churning out X1s for Nintendo.

If it's just an Android box what's the point? It's not likely to be using a more powerful SOC than the Nvidia Shield TV and you can buy one of those today and run an emulator from Atari on up to PlayStation 1 as well as Nvidia's game streaming service, and 4K Netflix/Amazon/YouTube/Whatever.

So there's still hope for me? I ordered Final Fantasy 6 and Chrono Trigger (the Super Famicom versions) from Japan 3 months ago, the seller shipped them separately, and I have only received Chrono Trigger so far. So... I might get FF6 in around 25 more months?

To be honest with you, I'm not really sure. I expect you'll be able to see when people on your friends list are online and can invite them to play something that hopefully isn't just Splatoon 2 (Mario Kart would be great) as well as voice chat.

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nintendo-switch-online/id1234806557?mt=8 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nintendo.znca&hl=en The servers still aren't up but I thought I'd give a heads up.

Where did you grow up? What's your first name?

Collecting carts and optical games without actually using them would just make me feel silly. It all does seem a little pointless when you can just do the same software emulation on a device you already have... well, because it is... I couldn't tell you why I'm still drawn to the idea.

Lots of skepticism for this thing here. It's been shown in person running at a gaming expo in California, the photoshopped controller and all. I'm personally excited about this project. Yes, I can use my Shield TV to emulate all consoles up to N64/PS1 and even Dreamcast (same Nvidia X1 chip that's in the Nintendo Switch) but there's something about pushing a cartridge into a slot that just makes it different to me, purely a mental thing. I also have a SNES that gets upscaled via my AVR (Yamaha Aventage RX-A1020) and I've been planning on a Genesis but I'd be happy to have so many consoles wrapped in one package where I can just swap modules off my shelf for different systems. The older optical systems are not going to last as long as the cartridge based systems either. If it comes to fruition, great! I'll get one. If not, oh well. I'm pretty hopeful about it though. Way more hopeful than the I was about the Coleco Chameleon. The only thing giving me a bit of pause so far is the lack of info on how they're going about the requirement for a BIOS for the optical systems.

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