A New Cartridge-Based Console Is Coming Out Next Year

A 25 gb Blue ray disk is roughly 0.50 cent

but a usb/sd is around 20 euro/dollar. Just saying.

Someone mentioned SD cards and this would actually be a technological advancement for video games, to be honest.

There's no reason whatsoever for games to not be on SD or USB or MicroSD right now, instead of slow shitty bluray and dvd discs. It has to be some kind of stupid business arrangement that continues to give profit to Sony and other companies that sees all games still releasing on optical after 20 years. Any of those choices, USB or SD, are all much faster, much easier to store, much better value, and are inexpensive.

Like, why did these consoles rely on their BD drives for the games? It should only have been included as a method to watch movies. It's not as if BD drives are expensive. They're literally the same price as DVD drives now.

Oh but right, people would cry if the price of their games jumped an extra $20 to reflect the price of good technology.

yeah, cool and all, but can it run crysis?

if it runs the original carts, i'm in for the right price.

It's sounds like an expensive emulator that doesn't have any games only crappy ones.

I applaud the idea. Too bad emulators exist.

Will it support 4K

Give me a phone with physical game controls that can natively play indie Steam games. I'll pay out the ass for something like that.

I don't see this taking off

In all honesty: who needs this? They should have taken the failed crownfunding campaign as a sign. If I wanted to play really old games I could do that in plenty of other ways. But what games will run on that thing anyway? Crappy, modern retro games?

no.

I see why they are producing this console, it's a pain in the ass to get very heavy data updates on everything. It will be very "niche", put some decent games (aka emulators on HD) on it and I might get this.

Interesting thing to note, the console looks more than a little bit like the Atari Jaguar.

I'd like to be optimistic about this and believe this will be successful but history tells me it won't be. There's just no room for something new to even with good ideas behind it. So many of these types of things have come and gone over the years. I'm actually surprised that anyone wants to try this when the chances of success are slim to none.

They call them cards but the media for 3DS and Vita are both pretty much cartridges only flat. Just sayin'...

I really do not see how this is not just going to be a less convenient way of playing indie games. It's cool on the surface but just really not practical in any sense. I might get one if it's really cheap just for grins but it will probably sit next to my TV for a couple years, unused, then tucked away in a box for the rest of its existence.

If this inexpensive and has a decent game selection, I'm all over it.

make it BC with original colecovision carts and you got a winner.

It can play 8-, 16-, and 32-bit games, which Coleco says it is a "growing and popular genre."

Did someone just open a time capsule and pull Coleco out? Is this what they've been working on for the last 35 years? Get a clue. Retro-games are a niche market, not a growing genre.

The controller is an SNES controller with analog sticks. I predict this will do about as well as the OUYA.

don't like the thumbstick placement on the right, they were probably too worried about copying one of the other controllers designs but either both should have been downlow (like sony) or at least the right one.

I'm sure it will be nice. But, for people saying that they really need to be playing in under a minute, I never even thought about it like that. And I had all of the first consoles that came out. Also, the earliest computers. Imagine having to actually enter a run command to start playing!?!?!?

Emulators... Need I say more...

if there is one thing i do miss about the old school consoles, its turning it on, pressing one button, and playing a game inside of 10 seconds

8, 16 and 32 bit games, right on the indie developers alley.

I doubt indie developers manufacturing cartridges would be better cost-effective than offering their games via digital.

I'm actually looking forward to this

Does each cartridge hold 1000 games?

Coleco? New system? I just peed myself a little.

OUYEAH