Yeah, I'm one of those that isn't "getting" it. Very little of this makes sense. A 2D powerhouse capable of "hundreds of thousands of sprites", all the games are going to be good, no ports, and all between 3 to 8 bucks. Yeah, whatever lol. I'm sure all the amazing indie devs are gonna come flocking with their hundreds of thousands of sprites at $8 max and develop for this first. And on top of that a lot of the stuff really reeked off "back in the good old days" sentiment like "Efff DLC, eff 3D graphics, etc." Hmmm, sounds familiar.
The only thing I see going for this is it seems to have credible people on board and it's not crowdfunded. (I think) Other then that I have a really though time seeing this succeed or even what the point is.