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Fun fact this is apparently the third delay for the Amico if you add this delay to the count:
For those of you that preordered the Amico, don't you worry lmao:
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(VGC) The Intellivision Amico has been delayed again to the end of the year
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Fun fact this is apparently the third delay for the Amico if you add this delay to the count:
For those of you that preordered the Amico, don't you worry lmao:
a look into their OS and game dev environment would be interesting
EDIT: wait this is running on a snapdragon and custom android?
Not surprising given the pandemic. This had pretty low odds of success to begin with and I'm sure dealing with the production issues that covid has brought on has only decreased the odds. I do hope the thing actually manages to get out there in the world even if... a lot of the execution looks suspect.
I think there is like, a kernel of a good product differentiation idea here. Tallarico has mostly lacked professionalism and marketing focus -- I don't get why the audience of what is probably only a few hundred middle aged retro true believers is remotely strategically important to what the purported value proposition is of this thing. I suppose you work with the captured audience you have, but this thing is not going to succeed or fail due to that crowd
I think there is like, a kernel of a good product differentiation idea here. Tallarico has mostly lacked professionalism and marketing focus -- I don't get why the audience of what is probably only a few hundred middle aged retro true believers is remotely strategically important to what the purported value proposition is of this thing. I suppose you work with the captured audience you have, but this thing is not going to succeed or fail due to that crowd
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lmao lowkey, this feels like one of those things where several years from now, they're gonna be rare to get cause barely anyone bought them and some small tiny community will start collecting them and find ways to mod the Amico
to be fair, I can definitely see them having a hard time getting components. they're probably scraping left over chips from Qualcomm and other companies. the good thing is they probably don't have too many orders to fill. actually, that's probably a bad thing
My hope is that it will get cancelled, they sell the Intellivision brand, and the new Night Stalker and Cloudy Mountain games end up on regular consoles and/or PC.
My guess is it's the lack of orders that is the real reason for the delay. This buys them a few more months to try and salvage some interest somehow. Not that they will, but they can try.
I'm willing to bet that their biggest issue is that they can't get that stupid controller working.
Would not be shocked if they didn't hit the threshold of where building them would no longer be a net loss or don't have the cashflow for a production line.
The supposed insider info says they had a window to lock in hardware before Covid, but chose to wait to get better prices and then a pandemic happened. Prices are way higher now and they've adjusted to different, cheaper components which has led to game delays because the new components aren't working exactly same as before.
Getting all their ducks in a row in the midst of a global pandemic along with a number of amateur decisions has led to a bit of a mess. Designing and releasing a console isn't easy, folks.
Getting all their ducks in a row in the midst of a global pandemic along with a number of amateur decisions has led to a bit of a mess. Designing and releasing a console isn't easy, folks.
Did they inform Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo about the new release date so they can push back their releases?