Retro VGS: New Retro Game Console

[zapiy]

Brilliant.

[TrekMD]

Just saw this at Retro Gaming Mag:  TENTATIVE PRICE POINTS FOR RETRO VGS RELEASED AND FIRST GAMEPLAY OF THE FIRST GAME SHOWN.

[hamie96]

$200 price point wouldn't be too bad, the main problem would be attracting developers to the system.

[zapiy]

It needs to be £100 here for it to selling in big numbers I think.

[Akuza]

It needs to be £100 here for it to selling in big numbers I think.

Agreed, a new cartridge console by an unknown, isn't going to sell at £200, at around a £100 maybe abit more, people will jump in purely for nostalgia of it being a retro styled console.

[zapiy]

Ok so its been confirmed that the hardware architecture will be FPGA..

What that means i dont really know and would appreciate someone sharing there thoughts on this that knows a little about the pluses and minuses..

[Greyfox]

Ok so its been confirmed that the hardware architecture will be FPGA..

What that means i dont really know and would appreciate someone sharing there thoughts on this that knows a little about the pluses and minuses..

A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturing – hence "field-programmable".

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-pr ... gate_array

Interesting choice of chipset, but one for the indie devs in mind, plus as far as I know there is a few emulators done on this too, so multi host SD integration if they are clever enough to include this in the console. Making it highly desirable to both customer and pirate, most or less an Android OS.

[zapiy]

Yeah, i appreciate what it is and so forth.. more from a programmers pov..

[hamie96]

http://danstrother.com/fpga-nes/

I may just pick one up solely to make a Coleco emulator in FPGA. I can only imagine the headaches I'll endure though 

[zapiy]

Lol i would like to see that.

[TrekMD]

Here's an interesting read about the console from Retro Gaming Mag:  RETRO Video Game System and the Looming Identity Crisis Within.

[AmigaJay]

I agree in the fact it needs exclusives, pure and simple, nothing thats on Android or IOS, and for a developer thats a major risk, why turn down millions of potential mobile users for a few hundred-few thousand retro console owners, like he said the biggest Ouya exclusive dev jumped ship at the first sign of a bigger paycheck, it will be hard to get exclusive games on this, but it will be harder to keep them exclusive.

[TrekMD]

Maybe they'll need to make limited-time exclusives with different features on the console.  Features that would not be available on other systems would keep some sort of exclusivity to the Retro System and may, perhaps, help out.

[TrekMD]

If anyone wants to learn more about the console, I recommend you listen to Episode 18 of the Intellivisionaries podcast.  There is a nice interview with Mike Kennedy where he discusses the console and their plans for it. 

[Papa]

I think it's gonna have a lot of great games that really need to be on carts to seem like they're in the right place.  Assaulter, for instance.  It looks like a Neo Geo or suped-up SNES game but plays on Androids and other systems.  Shovel Knight comes to mind.

    It reminds me how much of a waste of resources it truly is to play a NES or Sega Master System game on a $700 game system at hundreds of watts.  I don't think it's wrong to get all of your favorite systems emulated on the console you just bought.  Especially if you replace the last one you bought with whatever just came out.  It can seem wasteful to get one of those new machines IF you only plan to download retro.  I just love to play on original hardware and am happy to spend the lowest wattage possible to do so.  Scraping up all of the best games out there that resemble so much the systems of old and putting them on cartridges to buy and own forever seems like a gift from above!

   I'm going for it when it comes out regardless and would like to see some old company names from back in the day.  Maybe Konami or Capcom, or even Sega could pop out some programs for it!  If it's only Indie games it still will have a massive library to work with. Just look at the Ouya!  I hope they have a good mix of ports, originals, rehashes and a lot of old-school!  I'd pay $150 or $180, but it's gonna be around $300+ when I grab up all the launch titles (or more), so I hope they can keep it low.  If I can plug in 6-button Sega pads it would be better, in my opinion, than the do-it-all pads they're sporting.  I like those and all, but not too many pads feel as perfect as that 6-button Sega pad. 

I can't wait!!