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  Free to play seems really limiting, but from reading the kickstarter, free to play can also mean a free d... : wickoattack
  • Yeah, I think it's dumb for them to say everything is "free to play" when they are including demos in tha... : OverloadUT
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  doomed to fail : creeping-death
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    They'll hit their 1 million goal though in a day or so. Watch the money pouring in right now, its crazy. : Visceral Monkey
    • Just in the last hour or so it gained $100k. Nuts. : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • They are going to meet their $950 target in less than an hour. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      I mean the console itself. : creeping-death
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        how can it fail? at worst it will be able to play current android games. : kiddygrinder
        • They're hoping indie devs jump on this like they did iOS and even put their effort here instead of XBLA. ... : ZenFri
    • The thing is, that's almost irrelevant. Obviously the project would be dead from the outset if they didn... : Arcanum
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    7,888 BACKERS $984,008 PLEDGED OF $950,000 GOAL 29 DAYS TO GO : harold.johnson
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      It will be interesting to see what their stretch goals will be. They have some interesting incentives for... : Keefinator
      • Interested in this as well--can they improve the hardware in any way? It seems like they have a prototyp... : FeetofFury
    • a sucker is born every minute. : creeping-death
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    Agreed. At best it will be a niche product that lasts a while. : hyperwired
    • And thats not about the kickstarter, which has done awesomely, but the future of the product itself : hyperwired
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  I've always wanted to play Canabalt on a 60 inch screen :/ Me being a jerk aside the only nice thing... : Peanut Fox
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    Yeah, feels like at best this momentum could rustle some feathers. But other than that I don't really see... : Tawler
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      They don't have to, that's the beauty of it! : Mad Brahmin Disease
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        I don't even want them to. I've got plenty of devices to play their games on. : Mr.Manager
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          And none to play indie games on? I understand it's a great environment for that, but I still like my AAA ... : Tawler
          • Don't take what I'm saying the wrong way; I love all my gaming systems and wouldn't want to be without ga... : Mr.Manager
          • Well, I'd prefer to play them all on my TV. So I have to rely on XBLA or the stupid XBIG channel that is ... : Mad Brahmin Disease
          • That's a good point. If it has any market traction at all it will just cause MS and Sony to make their in... : ZenFri
      • yea, i dont see what different it makes it it is backed by the big guys or if it disrupts the big guys. ... : theDrMikey
• Just backed it. Thank God! I'm sick and tired of seeing shit on my console that doesn't belong there. Li... : rtricoche
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  DING! Funding is done! : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • http://chattypics.com/files/ScreenShot20120710at105938PM_tmh7bn98so.png : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • And it's still going strong at a rate of $5k per minute! : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  I find myself very skeptical. Developers generally turn to consoles because of their huge install base an... : MOOMANiBE
  • All Android developers suffer that fate anyway. A free game locked through an in-app purchase might get a... : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • They're pricing it at around $100 which is pretty cool. To be honest this is kind of exactly what i w... : disembodied potato
  • Very true. : ZenFri
• Just hope it doesn't get littered with $.99 awful games. : Memphis-Ahn
• Well...they have a lot of consoles to deliver in the next year. Good luck to them! : holinka
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  Good luck bringing a console to market with $1M : ForcedEvolutionaryVirus
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    You missed the part where the pledge amount is growing by $4-5k per MINUTE. If they sell the entire i... : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • I'm off by a zero. Math is hard. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      They have to produce ~8000 consoles too... : ForcedEvolutionaryVirus
      • I wonder if they thought about that before starting this multi-million dollar Kickstarter?... : bill crystals
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        Actually it'll be closer to 12,000 with just what they have available now (1,000 + 10,000 + upper tiers).... : pantsburgh
        • Sorry I guess it's been 12+ hours already. Still, they'll sell out in under a day. : pantsburgh
        • Yeah that is what I'm saying. Selling them is the easy part, making them for $100 will be the hard part. : ForcedEvolutionaryVirus
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      There are a ton of other costs that go into development and that's not even including marketing. Hell, ev... : Fred Garvin
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        They have certainly considered all those when they set their price. Perhaps it's just an incentive to get... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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          OLPC is a totally different concept and fundamentally a charity. This, I assume, is a for profit business... : Fred Garvin
          • ahh, i bet most people havent considered that almost all android apps are all touch based right now, and ... : theDrMikey
          • Yeah but what does charity have to do with it? Were they accepting donations that were not tied to a numb... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  The period at the end of "Hackers welcome." links to the anonymous twitter page. wtf? : pantsburgh
  • No way. LOLOL oh man.. that's a stupid invite. : Metasparks
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  paging DrMikey : doomed
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    haha. tell me about it. i understand that their pitch is more polished, and their team more credible, but... : theDrMikey
    • Just goes to show that the power of kickstarter is all in the pitch, really. You're convincing people to ... : MOOMANiBE
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      did the Shack ever mention your kickstarter? Did you ask them to? : pancake humper
      • i didn't ask through the shack directly, it was before i knew how to exactly. i think i submitted it as a... : theDrMikey
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      I don't really see it that way. The difference right now might seem trivial and subtle to you, but I thin... : singlespace
      • Yeah the platform and ecosystem plans set it way apart imo : Halen
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  Come one, come all... invest today in The Phantom 2.0! : willyfreddy
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    I wonder what would happen if the people behind this project just ran away with the money. : MOOMANiBE
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      Nothing. They are being given the money with no strings attached, : Lucy Labia
      • yep. only independent legal action would be an option, and good luck proving they intentionally fucked ev... : theDrMikey
    • There are a lot of big names attached to this project. Hopefully they aren't willing to wager their reput... : Rice-Rocketeer
• I backed it for the price of the console, I think it has promise and I think will be a better investment ... : eloader2
• Bitboys 2.0, this time they're making a console. : creeping-death
• The Verge has deets: http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/7/10/3147757/ouya-the-99-android-powered-hackabl... : mojoald
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  They are now at $1.8 million. All this before the 24-hour mark. 29 days left? We could see a new level of... : Keefinator
  • I'm betting we hit $10M on this. : mojoald
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    In betting the hit $10M : mojoald
    • I bet te hi £1m : imperator
  • Could be bigger than Pebble. : Rice-Rocketeer
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    But they've probably got a limited number of consoles they can promise to sell, so soon it will all the $... : shurcool
    • I wouldn't be shocked if they find a way to sell even more of them : Mecha Tofu Pirate
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  I think the 99 cost for what they purpose( along with design costs, packaging costs and shipping costs) i... : snowwolf
  • Snowwolf? Snowwolf! SNOOOOOOWWOOOOOOOOLF!! : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    Yeah I agree. They will have to have actual investors, because by the look of their video they will bur... : ForcedEvolutionaryVirus
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      my guess is they have investment already. I'd wager they are using Kickstarter as a clever marketing tool... : disembodied potato
      • +inf, this seems very likely given the office, staff and equipment they showed in that video. In which ca... : node
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    Rip Snowwolf : planetfunk
    • strangled with a neckbeard rope :( : EvilDolemite
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  Can someone do a refresher on how Kickstarter works... Once it goes past the target goal within the ti... : shurcool
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    No, you're only charged when the time expires and they are above the funding goal, the rest is correct. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      So why are so many people confident these guys will deliver? I haven't really heard of any of them until ... : shurcool
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        People don't know, its all based on an honor system. We're still waiting to get the first big Kick sta... : disembodied potato
        • You only have to put up a little money, so even if it does fail your risk would be pretty small. But yes,... : ZenFri
• Also, anyone notice the similarity of the concept with the nD? http://the-nd.com/ Except this one's less ... : shurcool
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  Of course, I can't forget the obligatory OnLive plug. It's interesting to me that this is so hugely popul... : shurcool
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    While the concept for this thing is interesting, it is doomed to fail because nobody wants trashy android... : creeping-death
    • Good points. At least the cloud model offers 100% security against piracy, whereas this approach borderli... : shurcool
    • Games are bad man :( Going through my Xoom, these are just a few games that are awesome on the big scree... : stonedonkey
  • Every time I've used OnLive there's been very noticeable latency which made the controls feel sluggish an... : singlespace
• I gotta get into this internet pan-handling bid'ness. : Godhatesfatpeople
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  What about the resolution ? Will it depend on the TV ? will it support full HD (1920 x 1080) ? : hanged_man
  • It has an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of flash storage, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetoo... : stonedonkey
• I hope Kool-Aid guy is the sponsor! OH YAH! +next version of Android should be Kool Aid! : biofrog
• I backed it. I'm thinking, the least it will be is a great emulator box. : GodZilly
• I'll read through the thread in a minute. What do you guys thing about Ouya vs. - Steam - Desura - On... : BlockheadBrown
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  So it's for android games? That doesn't sound appealing at all. If the idea is to have a box for indie... : JeanLucAwesome
  • Dude, check the link and read for 5-10 minutes the point is to get a console that's cheap, both for devel... : Raven2785