Doubtful, on both points. With the bad blood that gets created with how Kevtris publicly joined in on the roasting, they wouldn't want him back on principle, and for Kevtris to have done what he did, he was probably already very sure the prospects for any kind of partnership was permanently over.
Maybe they ate some crow, groveled to him, and he forgave them for being f*cktards. Its a possibility.
Getting past pride is a tough thing... Their statement that "
he's not the only game in town..." or "
his is a failed model from the start..." and given that Kevtris was willing to join the roasting shows they all were pretty sure they were done with each other. From their perspective, would you trust Kevtris not to go out and embarrass you again like that if things get tough ? I dunno how you patch things up after such a very public debacle... Heh.
That said, I think that they totally misjudged everything about this release, and if they think they'll get even half of the response they got in the re-do, then they are still smoking crack.
Exactly. You can't show lack of professionalism in these types of endeavors as tempting as it is to get down and dirty and tell it like it is... With them taking shots at each other, all the fumbling around, so little in planning yet asking so much in money, amateur hour videos that you or I could've done properly summarized as "
Power goes in, video goes out!" (HAHAHAHAHAHA!), etc. who would put trust in these bumbling bumblers again ??
Wanted millions of dollars, didn't get past $60k (which is still scary to me), but MAYBE in round 2 they'll have a better shot... Rrrrriiiiigggghhhhhtttt.
Agreed. I would imagine that these guys have burned through any goodwill they may have had. What sucks is they've probably made it harder for anyone who wants to take on a similar project in the future as well. I'd absolutely consider backing a $100-$150 cart-based console if it had a few killer exclusive games and, you know, some hint of a working prototype. These guys, though? Not a chance. My bullshit detector went on overdrive the moment I saw them speak.
But here's the thing, why would game developers wanna give an exclusive to something like this ?? Exclusives are already something that should be happening less and less.
They can give you a "killer app" right now, they can put it up cheaply on their website or pay a bit to Steam and get more marketing from an established site like that... That cuts out the closed-license fee model of consoles, production of pieces of plastic in the form of CD/DVD/BluRay/carts, you get instant world-wide distribution, that's millions of people around the world that'll have access to it... All the money spent on upfront costs in the old console model could instead be spent on making the game better!
This whole thing is fueled by nostalgia... I love my old retro consoles too, but, ya know, their purpose came and went with the times... I see how my cheap $30 tablet with its HDMI output and USB input can be turned into a powerful gaming console on the side with a USB gamepad and yet still do all the other things we can't live without like Internet, etc. Why do I want yet another library of carts divided onto yet another console when all the games made for it could pretty much run on my PC/tablet ??
