Slick salesman with a hat:The name's Lanley, Lyle Lanely, and I've got the greatest idea you've ever..
Well, it's not for you. It's really more of an AtariAge idea.
Rube: What's it called?
Slick salesman with a hat: VGS
Rube: How's it spelled?
Slick salesman with a hat: V G S
Crowd chants VGS, VGS, VGS, VGS
Smart consumer: That thing looks like a f*cking mess!
Slick salesman with a hat: You don't mean the VGS?
Miss Hoover: I hear those things are awfully loud,
Slick salesman with a hat: it plays as softly as a cloud
Convenience Store Owner: Is there a chance the company could fold?
Slick salesman with a hat: Not from what the kickstarter told
Drunk: What about us collectards?
Slick salesman with a hat: you'll be given plastic carts
Grandpa: Were you sent here by the Devil?
Slick salesman with a hat: No good sir I'm on the level
I swear it's gaming's only choice, the throw up your cash, and waste your joy.
Crowd chants VGS, VGS, VGS, VGS
Mom: The games all look like crap and broken!
Bob: Sorry mom the mob has spoken
Crowd chants VGS, VGS, VGS, VGS
Gotta hand it to ya Dan, in following up Kevtris' Simpsons' reference with a much better thought out one based on the monorail con-guy, you have thoroughly impressed me for the first time.
You know, to be fully honest about the whole idea of this, it offends me in a way...
I hate the industry model of OK, time for PS1, build new hardware, build up its library, now it's done, OK, time for PS2, build new hardware, build up its library, now it's done, OK, time for PS3, build new hardware, build up its library, now it's done, OK, time for PS4, build new hardware, build up its library, now it's done, etc., repeat ad nauseam infinitum...
So that's what we get from the big boys, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, etc. But now here come some fans who wanna do the SAME DAMN thing in a "me too" fashion, lock game developers on their particular idea for hardware but based on old ideas that were suitable for a time long gone and the ONLY affordable way to do things in the 80's/90's...
Yet another console, yet another and another is simply more division of game libraries and I would rather just see the targeting of dominant PC Operating Systems like Windows and now Android given its dominance for small devices like tablets and phones...
When the PC cost $2,000 back in the 90's and an arcade cabinet about the same give or take, bringing the experience of gaming to your home with an Atari 2600, then on to NES, SNES, Genesis, TG-16, etc. for $99 to $199 made economic sense. It allowed for bringing the arcade experience home and also for other types of games to sell like RPGs. But now that the console costs the same as about an equally powered PC, why am I still having to buy new hardware variants all the time from Sony, Nintendo, etc. ? Just make the games on universal platforms, i.e. Windows and Android! The install base for the PC is way beyond what it was back when consoles took off... Stop dividing me all the time with new hardware variants that are just as powerful now as my PC and cost about the same... The PC lasts much much longer and the backwards compatibility model can still keep things going on the next upgrade of your PC, etc.
So, you know, like many, I feel the console idea has outlived its usefulness as a cheap alternative to the PC and something mainly meant to specialize in games... I'll always value the experiences of growing up with them, but they're not the way to the future nor should they be...
These NG machines are just licensing cash grabs by companies and getting you to buy them because of exclusives they won't port elsewhere... If you make a videogame for Windows or Android, you don't have to pay a license fee for the privilege to code on the OS to say Microsoft or Google... That's an open-licensing model. If it's a closed model like all/most consoles traditionally are, any app/game you made, you'd have to pay a fee! So, developers can choose Windows, make the game, distribute it on Steam or for cheap on their own websites, no license fee to Microsoft and they're done! To make it for PS4, you gotta pay Sony a license fee, pay for a devkit if that's not included, and then pay to press the media... This model can't continue to survive... Why should it ?
These RVGS guys also exploit the aggravation of system updates and patches all the time... Well, 5 years ago, when you were stuck on a 1 Mbps DSL line, I can understand. We've moved on to 15-30 Mbps and in another 10 years, we'll be moving on to fiber optics and dealing with gigabit speeds, so downloading will be done in a blink of an eye. Not to mention later generations of PCs with faster CPUs and writes will take less time to install said updates/patches, so that's the solution to the aggravation, the continued advancement... Their idea is exploiting nostalgia and romanticism in the console days when that was just plain 0 and that's their idea for their new console, to make that 0, lock it out from fixes/updates which is just plainly a f--king stupid idea...
There are so many other rational things you could do instead of 0 network support like simply limit system updates only every quarter instead of every other day as soon as they're available so that the consumer doesn't notice them as much, and then only severe security fixes are available immediately or what have you...
Whatever... In short, IMO it's all a f--king stupid idea and I find it very insulting actually! They're a team of knuckleheads and I wanna see this crash'n'burn like it should!
