Please don't give them any ideas :D MadQB sounds actually quite good.
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Slightly Mad Studios are making a gaming system? The 'Mad Box'
- Thread starter KennyLinder
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Oh, for a second there. I was like is namco backing this console.
The third concept looks much more likely to make it to market.
The cube on one of its edges just doesnt seem practical:
The cube on one of its edges just doesnt seem practical:
I can't imagine this disrupting the market anymore than the steambox did. PS5 and Xbox Scarlet will be well established if this even makes it on shelves within 3 years.
Yup, it's very annoying that the joycons are affected by minimal interference.
Damn, this "console" is going to fail spectacularly, isn't it?
Man, that takes up more space then it needs to. it's probably a Micro-ITX board with an intel and an nVidia card. To be honest it might be very capable and cost around $1,000.
It gets worse
Edit: this is pretty hilarious
This is silly now.
Are we sure this isnt a joke account.
Someone pulling an elaborate out of season April Fools prank on us.
Theres no way the this weird modem looking thing makes it to mark with a full front screen.
The Original concept isnt even logical at this point so im like 90% sure this is just jokes.
This twitter account seems like a parody:
The third concept looks much more likely to make it to market.
The cube on one of its edges just doesnt seem practical:
Yeah. I can imagine every marketer is screaming at him not to do the other two.
It gets worse
Edit: this is pretty hilarious
Why would anyone want email notifications on their game console?
I think the "why would anyone" applies to every single thing shown on that screen.
There's no need for the console to tell you what game you're playing, or what you're watching on Netflix. There's even less need for a console to have a touchscreen on it allowing you to change song. What do they expect, people to get up, walk over to their TV, start fumbling around with the touchscreen until they hear a song they like, and then sit back down? It's another one of those things that could only have been designed by someone who has barely used a console and whose experience with games machines has been almost exclusively playing on a device within arm's reach.
Seemingly all custom stuff.
But weve heard nothing of partners so we dont know if its Intel/Nvidia or all AMD.
The fact that all their "boxes" have different dimensions tells me they havent done anything yet.
Else they would atleast know the size of their motherboard and make the box accordingly, but the Cube looks small even for ITX, the Modem looks just weird, their pCars logobox looks like it could be mITX and the original concept just looks weird.
If those front fans are 100 - 120mm get the fuck outta here why does a console need to be that big.
I can see why a wall mount would be desirable for a home theater or something, but the rest of it looks like it's trying to be a gaming PC with a touch screen gimmick instead of a console.
I think this is actually the key misunderstanding right the way through the history of consoles. No matter how difficult making and shipping an electronic box might be, it's generally been a relatively easy part of the process of being a platform holder. It's always been much more difficult to provide a level of first party support that comes close to matching the key platform holders, to attract a level of third party support that means a system keeps getting new and worthwhile games, to market and publicise a system properly, and nowadays to maintain a huge back-end services infrastructure.
We've kept on seeing new entrants to the market with an "if you build it then they'll come" mentality when the reality is closer to "if you build it then you're down tens or hundreds of millions of dollars and your work has only just started".
Yep, for any investor looking to fund further SMS projects this is what they should know.
I'm pretty sure the Atari VCS is trying to win that spotlight currently. But I mean, they can use that as inspiration for their own story down the line!
I'm actually somewhat intrigued by that controller screen, even though I know from my Wii u experience that having info on the controller is awkward at best