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Xbox co-founder J Allard heads up Intellivision
- Thread starter Earvin Infinity
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is this the tommy tallarico thing? that gameplay trailer they released a bit ago was just brutal. i can't even fathom what a path to success for something like this would look like
That's why it's more appropriate to use the word "largely" rather than "entirely".
Come on, could they not have even hired a conference room to reveal their game?. Did they really have to do it in what looks like a storage cupboard?!
Or a multitude of other games. It's just a statement aimed at older gamers who still think gaming peaked in the 80's, like this whole project has been. It's all based on completely untrue ideas. I've actually lost a lot of respect for Tallarico over this.
Yep.
If there was a path to success it'd probably look like a slow grind, with low initial sales and gradually building word of mouth as people encountered the machine in social settings and somehow the games were enough to convince them to buy one for themselves.
I don't think that path ever realistically existed though. I think the team behind this have overestimated the popularity of local multiplayer a bit, and underestimated how well existing consoles already cater to people who like local multiplayer - it's definitely not the focus of most games, but with consoles having literally thousands of games, there's sufficient games with local multiplayer that very few people are going to feel the need to buy a US$250 console.
I was in a pitch meeting once and referenced a character, wearing a wearing a hoodie and blazer combo, as being "JJ Allard" like and NO ONE knew what the fuck I was talking about.
I then went on to explain the legend of JJ Allard and everyone was extremely underwhelmed by it.
I don't know what I was thinking with that one.....
Or PS, or Xbox, or Steam...I feel like local multiplayer has been thriving over the past few years? This console seems intent on solving a problem that doesn't exist.
It seems like a neat idea with a few cool looking titles, but man for $250 it's just too much. Maybe if it were like a $100ish. I wonder if more games will come, too? Have they announced plans to like update it or is what's on the system all there will be? Haven't been following it closely
I respect the hustle. Just sad to see literal Xbox royalty attach his name to Tommy Tallarico's delusional vanity project.
It doesn't help that the decision makers in these supposed local multiplayer-less households are parents who definitely don't want to have to buy a new game system, let alone one they've never heard of.
Yep, these are the guys who said that this console would do 2D better than the PS5, which was just meaningless gibberish in the context of modern hardware - it read like a post from a games forum in 1997 or something.
It's the standard model, for as long as the can keep going with it - new games available on an online storefront of some kind on a regular basis. They say 40 games at launch.
This is incredibly sad. Just a guy in a supply closet with a washed-out screen making extremely sure that we all know that an unimpressive game only uses two buttons.
The whole Amico situation is like a Shark Tank pitch where it's clear that the person pitching the project is way too close to it, but nobody can get through to them, no matter how harsh they are. Except they somehow keep dragging other people who should know better into it.
Well, 40 games in one package is not 100% terrible for $250 I suppose if most of them are decent. More than I expected. Will have to see what the run down is on them when they launch
They're not free games, though. Each game is apparently like seven or eight bucks each, on top of the initial console buy-in.
Oh, word? I thought this was one of those like multigame pack in deals. Lmao, well, nevermind.
J "no period" Allard
I remember how Tommy Tallerico used to rip good games apart in his reviews, and here he is promoting this.
The name is the game is silly too as the type of crashes aren't sideswipes....
I remember how Tommy Tallerico used to rip good games apart in his reviews, and here he is promoting this.
The name is the game is silly too as the type of crashes aren't sideswipes....
I for one actually kinda like Tomy, but man, 250$ is just delusional. If they cut some features and released it for 100$ maybe it would've stood a chance.
This is...dismal. Tallarico spends such an incredibly long time excitingly detailing how you can both speed up and slow down, it seems like everyone is pretending that they're having fun, and a lot of what Tallarico says is just weird. He's enthusiastic about the idea that players have basic abilities to participate even after being knocked out, comparing to that a "typical game" where once you get "smashed into", they're out...but I can't recall the last time I played a racing game that worked that way. They nearly all let you continue racing (and the genre-leading multiplayer racing game gives you better bonuses the further behind you are). He's imagining things.
Then of course he goes on to remark that "just for the record...the girl's beating all of you", as if that was something unusual, worth commenting on.
What a mess this is.
40 is the number of games available at launch, not pre-loaded. The site for this machine says six games will be pre-loaded, without saying which games they'll be, so anyone buying it gets those six and then there's more on the store (each costing US$9.99 or below, again according to the official site).
It's so refreshing to see a moderator speak the truth like this. Your counterpart on AtariAge likes to ban anyone who doesn't act like a jockstrap for Tommy's ego.
What do they hope to gain by bringing on yet another irrelevant has-been? What can Allard do without the clout of Microsoft's wallet to catch him when he falls? Another Zune? They aren't as innovative as they think they are. Here's Allard quoted in 2004, talking about simplicity in games. "But maybe there are two different control sets. Maybe we rebirth the Atari 2600 joystick and there's a most in every game, or most games, that supports just the fire button and eight-way pad."
That was said before mobile gaming was a thing and casual, indie titles were everywhere.
Yep. They'd better be having fun, because they're certainly not going to get rich.
Personally I think it's fine to compete with Nintendo for the family market and younger demographic. However I think time has moved on. Minecraft exists. Mario exists. Heck the wii is still under my tv because my 5yr old loves it.
Holy hell I love how Tommy's definitely using his own music for this.
