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The casual crowd isn't even looking at an Xbox One S or PS4 though. I don't think the marketing is targeting them either. My mom loves farkle, haven't seen a single ad for that on those systems. But I bet that will be on prominent display for board games/etc. with Amico. Especially shaking the dice and tossing them on the screen. That's not an Xbox or PS4 thing.

Yeah that guy is a full on troll account with videos that get 90 views.

I've gotten products in the 150-200 range that feel like they are in the 150-200 range. ... That is, budget POS... The plastic is cheap and creaky when you push on it, the device feels light and airy like you can break it by picking it up... Very obvious manufacturing flaws in the molding like bad connection points (where the plastic pieces of the shell meet). I'm sure a lot of you know what kind of cheap chinese plastic products I'm talking about, with really shoddy parts and gummy buttons/d-pads, etc.

I don't mind a console adding an extra 10, 20, or 30 dollars to the initial price tag if the price is for additional, beneficial features or hardware. I would prefer spending a little more money for a better product that can have better usability over time. The fact the Amico controllers originally had resisitve touch and have been upgraded to capactive touch is a huge boon. That'll make them feel like modern devices and not 2000's devices. If they are inflating the price to just add feature creep, or things that aren't needed, then that's a whole different story obviously. I agree, the additional price tag for limited edition colors may be a bit too steep, unless they include something extra. ... With that being said I'm still going for Galaxy Purple. 🤡 But I know I'm not the casual market.

I'm with you on this one. I think the overabundance of indie pixelart games is kind of suffocating lately. Also, Stardew valley is based on a lot of time sensitive goals. It doesn't really have the relaxed "no work" feel of Animal Crossing.

There's a lot of angles that game could take on the Amico as well. I imagine trying to stay quiet and stay unseen could be meters you have to watch as you get closer to get better pictures, etc. And maybe the more pictures you get the more it fills out a "lore book" that has information on the creature, ghost, or alien. Maybe raising your camera could be motion controlled and the slower you do it the quieter you remain, etc.

"Stranglers Worst Nightmare" could be a horror game.

A dark brown stained version?

Man! I love this idea! That could be pretty fun.

I like your ideas! But would it sell? Something I've wondered. That is the ultimate question. 😎

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Mutant Shark Shark.

I found this for you ColecoJoe. No more needing to yawn! Enjoy the free rose. 🌹

TOMMY! do not control the narrative. For it is the order of Dr. Prime. Leader of DOOM.

Just got word from my company that offices will remain closed in China but our production starts back up in China on Monday.

After considering this, I'm with John now. He's right. The virus is just a virus. Atari is forever.

yeah but according to john, and I quote, "Not every single person has the virus" So who's right and who's wrong here?

Absolutely fantastic write up and I would agree with all of your points (omitted them to save space lol). That drives another Amico criticism that also needs to be squashed, a lot of misunderstanding or misinterpretation of what the circle pad is vs what it isn't. Everyone is looking at it saying "I can't see myself playing blank and blank on that." Chances are like Tommy says, you won't be playing "blank and blank" on the Amico, and the games you will be playing are designed/tailored to or work even better WITH this layout as opposed to another you're thinking about. Usually people seem to think the analog stick is the be all end all of controller design or a panacea as it were. This really isn't the case, and especially not for older games. I would say the mouse and keyboard are pretty close to perfect. Gyro can imitate a mouse's ability to aim pretty decently, and when it comes to navigating a game the mouse if combined with a traditional D-Pad (WASD) or analog stick together are pretty damn great. Ultimately I just want to see more innovation and more ideas given their time to shine, so things can evolve. Because where we are now isn't perfect nor is it the end of all design. But if no one attempts to make anything new, we're just going to have 12 buttons and two analog sticks for the foreseeable future. And that seems like a bad way to go into the future of the 2020s to me. Right now we're seeing an awfulll lot of "samey" games coming out... A ton of them all focus on a central character, with camera around him/her, fighting bad guys, in a story based campaign. They're all looking very very similar and all built very strictly around what two analog sticks can do.

Thank you! That was killing me. I knew he was french.

Just saw this - I think Tommy has stated the disc is essentially an advanced D-Pad. I'd go further from what I've seen and say it reminds me a lot of a D-Pad mixed with something a lot like an analog stick's functionality. It has 64 positions, will be pressure sensitive, and can accept you rolling your thumb around (like an analog stick) to different directions without having to literally spin it around like a disc. A traditional D-Pad only has 8 directions, so no issues with controls there whatsoever. A platformer designed for this 64 position "disc" would have a lot more options for directional movement than a classic D-Pad. Especially going up stairs in a background layer (always a pain in Castlevania with an 8 direction D-Pad). For an "analog stick" type experience, we have to consider how many positions a circular zone on a stick may have. You usually have two little sticks in the Analog Stick moving around that determine the analog stick's X-Y positions precisely, (I just typed stick a lot...) and there's only so many numerical digits on that X-Y plane that an analog stick can communicate. It's probably more than 64 positions, but 64 positions in a circle pad is so many distinct positions that if an Analog Stick WERE limited to that range of motion, you probably wouldn't see a big difference. To determine this, you would need to take an Analog Stick and slowly begin to rotate it around... Every time you hit the limit and the camera begins to move slightly would be a new position value. You could tell this really easily with something like Mario 64, as Mario will start moving more and more quickly around in a circle as you hit different coordinates. This could also be part of the games programming, too. There's a lot of variables that go into positions on an Analog Stick but I bet most games aren't programmed to recognize hundreds of pinpoint positions on a stick. Edit: We won't really be able to test this fully as I don't think there are going to be any fully 3D open worlds, at least at launch.

This is a famous director, it's not Hitchcock. I've forgotten his name but the quotes live on.

That John guy HAS to be a troll at this point. Not everyone has the virus so get to work? Maybe he isn't a troll, because it's hard to make this stuff up. This is a pandemic JOHN. Newborns have the virus now. Maybe if Atari had been on their game and launched it when they originally promised... What does he even want it so badly for at this point anyway? Antstream? 🤡

It's sad that Tommy can't get a hold of the Atari name as well. I guess Rollercoaster Tycoon keeps the brand worth a lot more. Somehow lol. We could have the next true Atari console and next Intellivision console coming out. But they might compete, so maybe just Amico is better. I really have bad feelings about the VCS. As a PC it's already multiple years outdated.

This was absolutely awesome. The more Tommy shows the better! The open communication is pretty amazing (compared to our pals over at the Atari VCS indiegogo...)

I was hoping he would be civil and ultimately result in regular chatting. It's often that trolls are put in their place and they come around to realizing what they were doing. This one didn't. There was no "flame war." He just embarrassed himself by being called out several times by Tommy and then he got himself banned for ignoring rules about politics.