Which Will Come Out First Poll

[Flojomojo]

I hope it’s only available in prohibitively expensive bundles, to dissuade me from impulse-buying something I don’t need. ?

[Steven Pendleton]

On 9/28/2021 at 12:24 AM, Flojomojo said:

Has anyone ever seen a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X for sale on store shelves? Seems like the kind of thing we would see stacked up at Costco by now. 
 

Same goes for Evercade. Is that mail order only? 
 

Analogue and Polymega are hobbyist things like Everdrives, so I can understand those being online-only, but the absence/irrelevance of brick and mortar stores is interesting to me. 

Yep. I saw 2 PS5s several months ago. One was in Surugaya in Akiba for 74000 yen. The other was at this place close to Surugaya. You can see the PS5 box inside the case on the right side on this screenshot from Google maps.

 

[Parker77]

Evercade delayed a month due to shipping difficulties. They've release a nice, clear, concise statement explaining exactly what the issue is and when pre-orders will be fulfilled. These things happen, it's when they're not communicated properly that people get riled.

[wolfy62]

Steamdeck delayed until February. 

Its typical of everything electronic right now.

[MrBeefy]

Playdate had some bad batteries so they delayed again. Does that mean the Pocket is possibly the next in line?

[Steven Pendleton]

1 hour ago, MrBeefy said:

Playdate had some bad batteries so they delayed again. Does that mean the Pocket is possibly the next in line?

Pocket ships like 4 days from now.

[MrBeefy]

24 minutes ago, Steven Pendleton said:

Pocket ships like 4 days from now.

Nice. That's exciting.

[Steven Pendleton]

2 hours ago, MrBeefy said:

Nice. That's exciting.

I'm not very excited about it as a fake Game Boy/Game Boy Color/Game Boy Advance since I can just use my real GBA SP for those if I want, but rather as a replacement for the PC Engine GT (I REALLY hope it can run PC Engine CD games. No reason for it not to be able to do so from the SD card, but...) and its potential to run games from other, non-handheld systems. It's powerful enough to do at least Genesis/Mega Drive/SFC/SNES according to kevtris (his post got deleted with the rest of the Amico section, but he did say that there), so being able to have all of those games on "real" handheld hardware is a very nice thing. If it can do that + Neo Geo, I will be extremely happy. I may end up retiring my Nomad in that case, but I don't know yet.

Edited December 9, 2021 by Steven Pendleton

[MrBeefy]

So, Polymega, Switch OLED, the VS, and Analogue Pocket have made it.

 

So that leaves:

Steamdeck

Amico

Playdate

 

Looks like Pocket is getting some good coverage.

 

[Punisher5.0]

On 12/8/2021 at 10:01 PM, Steven Pendleton said:

I'm not very excited about it as a fake Game Boy/Game Boy Color/Game Boy Advance since I can just use my real GBA SP for those if I want, but rather as a replacement for the PC Engine GT (I REALLY hope it can run PC Engine CD games. No reason for it not to be able to do so from the SD card, but...) and its potential to run games from other, non-handheld systems. It's powerful enough to do at least Genesis/Mega Drive/SFC/SNES according to kevtris (his post got deleted with the rest of the Amico section, but he did say that there), so being able to have all of those games on "real" handheld hardware is a very nice thing. If it can do that + Neo Geo, I will be extremely happy. I may end up retiring my Nomad in that case, but I don't know yet.

I'm very interested to see if the hardware will be able to handle SFX and SA1 games. AFAIK the SuperNT still can't but since this can handle GBA it gives hope. Ohh and yeah AES would be amazing!

[Steven Pendleton]

33 minutes ago, Punisher5.0 said:

I'm very interested to see if the hardware will be able to handle SFX and SA1 games. AFAIK the SuperNT still can't but since this can handle GBA it gives hope. Ohh and yeah AES would be amazing!

I didn't even think about that. I think it's some sort of space limitation on the FPGA or something like that that prevents the Super Nt from being able to do those chips itself, but I forgot. I think kevtris mentioned it somewhere in his thread, but I'll have to go digging for it.

 

Anyway, yeah, if the thing can do Neo Geo MVS/AES, I will be extremely happy. That would be really awesome. I don't know if the Pocket is capable of that, but if it is, I'd be surprised if someone didn't make a core for it.

[roots.genoa]

I'm not sure about the SNES anyway, because I heard (but I'm not sure about that) that Pocket's FPGAs are "smaller" than Super Nt's (which was used to its fullest, hence no extra chip). If SNES is possible on Pocket, the second FPGA might perhaps be used for the extra chips, but I have no idea if it's technically feasible.

NeoGeo is easier though, because its architecture is actually simpler.

[Steven Pendleton]

3 hours ago, roots.genoa said:

I'm not sure about the SNES anyway, because I heard (but I'm not sure about that) that Pocket's FPGAs are "smaller" than Super Nt's (which was used to its fullest, hence no extra chip). If SNES is possible on Pocket, the second FPGA might perhaps be used for the extra chips, but I have no idea if it's technically feasible.

NeoGeo is easier though, because its architecture is actually simpler.

It can definitely do SNES

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20211010103208/https://atariage.com/forums/topic/301105-independent-amico-discussion-thread/page/19/?tab=comments

[roots.genoa]

Good news, then. But I tried to avoid counting on things that were not "officially" promised. I bought the Pocket for the advertised compatible systems mostly.

[digdugnate]

I will admit I have a little sense of FOMO with the Pocket releasing and everyone raving about it.    I'm content to read all the cool stories and experiences though for now!

[MrBeefy]

38 minutes ago, digdugnate said:

I will admit I have a little sense of FOMO with the Pocket releasing and everyone raving about it.    I'm content to read all the cool stories and experiences though for now!

The digital foundry video was good. I haven't watched samred's yet.

[MrBeefy]

Has anyone heard anything on the three remaining consoles? I know one is indefinitely delayed still. I haven't heard anything about Steamdeck, and I think I remember seeing a box of Playdates that needed to be double checked or something.

[MrBeefy]

Well looks like Steam Deck will be the next to make it to launch on February 25.

 

I think Playdate is sometime "soon" and the other one is still in limbo with some financial docs that doesn't paint a good picture.

 

Have any other new consoles been announced? @godslabrat you still doing that ruse spreadsheet?

[roots.genoa]

4 hours ago, MrBeefy said:

the other one is still in limbo with some financial docs that doesn't paint a good picture.

Well, they're going to announce a (new) release date within a month "or so™️"

[MrBeefy]

2 hours ago, roots.genoa said:

Well, they're going to announce a (new) release date within a month "or so™️"

Is "or so" the new "soon"?

[wolfy62]

It's gotten so bad with the A**** that no one even wants to mention the name anymore. 

[youxia]

I was living in blissful ignorance of this other console since the noise had died down here on AA, but this made me look it up. Oh boy. That other (hateful) website has just put up another dissection of this fine mess.

 

This time it won't be so easy to handwave it away, since it's all about financial documents, but no matter. I'm pretty sure that elsewhere the band still plays on....

 

[Downland1983]

4 hours ago, youxia said:

I was living in blissful ignorance of this other console since the noise had died down here on AA, but this made me look it up. Oh boy. That other (hateful) website has just put up another dissection of this fine mess.

 

This time it won't be so easy to handwave it away, since it's all about financial documents, but no matter. I'm pretty sure that elsewhere the band still plays on....

 

A lot of eye-popping info in that latest SEC filing.  The inflated price of the console over the sum of its parts suddenly makes sense.  It wasn't even profit margin.  It was the need to cover an extremely bad $810,000 loan that stipulated $100 of every console sold needed to be paid to Sudesh Aggarwal until the load was repaid in full.  And, they need another 10 million (2 funding rounds of $5 million each) just to keep the company afloat for another 7-9 months?

[Cebus Capucinis]

[digdugnate]

9 hours ago, MrBeefy said:

Is "or so" the new "soon"?

Heavy lifting!