Slightly Mad Studios are making a gaming system? The 'Mad Box'

[KennyLinder]

Ian Bell (owner) has tweeted the following, and the official account has re-tweeted it.

Any other info on this?

https://twitter.com/bell_sms/status/1080468977019584512

What is the Mad Box? It's the most powerful console ever built... It's literally 'Mad'... You want 4k, you want VR at 60FPS? You want a full engine for free to develop your games on it? You have it.

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[KoolAid]

It's a PC probably.

 

[Chainsawkitten]

I most definitely do not want VR at 60FPS.

 

[Deleted member 21709]

I most definitely do not want VR at 60FPS.

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Lol

 

[Redhead On Moped]

I most definitely do not want VR at 60FPS.

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[Maturin]

I don't want a console where the controllers don't work properly.

 

[Kabuki Quantum Lover]

SMS wanting to go down the Starbreeze path, I see.

 

[Brend]

Soulja Boy Tell'Em - Now with 50% more unkept promises

 

[Deleted member 39587]

just why.

 

[Strafer]

u mad bro?

 

[KennyLinder]

Sounds like something along the lines of a Steam Machine. What an odd way of 'announcing' it.

 

[saenima]

Completely Mad Studios.

 

[Deleted member 23965]

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In this guy's mind is 60 per eye = 120 fps or something :P

 

[danowat]

SMS, the kings of overreaching.

 

[JamboGT]

60 fps per eye eh.

 

[Xyber]

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[Deleted member 4970]

Well it would be slightly mad to release a VR machine designed to make you vomit

 

[jett]

Well this idea sounds indeed mad.

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That's not how that works.

 

[Eoin]

So...they accidentally ordered 1000 PCs for their developers instead of 10 and the figure that the easiest way to fix that was to sell them off as high end "Mad Box" machines?

 

[Deleted member 8752]

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Seems legit...

 

[Snazz]

Hopefully it's more successful/legit than Soulja Boy's "system."

 

[johancruijff]

 

[BernardoOne]

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Off to a good start lmao

 

[tuxfool]

Has to be a joke. January Fools?

 

[Deleted member 4532]

Bring back the Soulja Game.

 

[The King beyond the wall]

Completely Mad Studios.

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Underrated post. Therockclapping.gif

 

[iag]

60fpspe

 

[Deleted member 46922]

Maybe they should include two cpu's, one for each eye.

This year is gonna be just as bad as last year, isn't it?

 

[5taquitos]

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Fucking lmao.

Maybe there's still time to go back to square one.

 

[catswaller]

the combined per-eye metric actually is how devs talk about it -- that's the framerate you have to hit in engine to produce half on each eye. when a game is advertised as 90 it's because it's 45 per eye. Not sure why the dude said 60 when he clearly meant 120 though.

 

[K' Dash]

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off to a good start, I see.

 

[nolifebr]

https://variety.com/2019/gaming/news/ian-bell-mad-box-1203097617/

"It will support most major VR headsets and those upcoming and the specs will be equivalent to a 'very fast PC 2 years from now'," Bell wrote in an email. "We're in early talks with manufacturers of components so we can't say much more right now other than we have the designs specced out in detail. What is the Mad Box?" Bell wrote. "It's the most powerful console ever built… It's literally 'Mad'… You want 4k, you want VR at 60FPS? You want a full engine for free to develop your games on it? You have it."

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[TheManWhoSoldVG]

 

[Deleted member 2791]

this is just a steam machine

 

[blast0rama]

Good luck with that, guys.

I'll keep sweating about that alongside the Atari VCS and the Intellivision relaunch.

 

[MinerArcaniner]

this is just a steam machine

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My first thought.

There are a litany of questions surrounding this that I don't expect to get good answers for.

 

[cw_sasuke]

Creating a console when you barely can ship a successful game ? Good luck.

 

[Linus815]

this is a very Ian Bell thing to do.

 

[Kaako]

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Yo wtf ahahaa.
At least deliver that baseline of 90Hz if you're going to make a new high end console(PC).

 

[AtticusFincher]

Sounds like a move Starbreeze would make. Never make a Starbreeze move.

 

[Riderz1337]

So it's a steam machine.

Those things were popular.

 

[NoKisum]

Why do companies want to be the new Ouya so badly? Is there some hidden gold mine there I'm not aware of?

 

[rocket]

The box can do 240fps at 8k for all I care if they don't tell you how much it actually cost.

 

[Smiles]

shipping around 3 years? welp

 

[saenima]

I wish them the best of luck.

 

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[saenima]

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I feel like Molyneux has somehow acquired the gift of possession and is having some fun.

 

[TAJ]

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Wow, "Tighten up the graphics on level 3."-guy is running a studio.

 

[Kaako]

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To be fair, there are 120fps games(VR & nonVR) today running on PS4/XB1X so I'm a bit puzzled at that "beyond next gen" line.
Hell, I expect next gen console VR games to offer a 120Hz mode, at minimum.

 

[tuxfool]

Wow, "Tighten up the graphics on level 3."-guy is running a studio.

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Is this a specific incident?