A new gameplay trailer for a number of games coming to the Intellivision Amico dropped recently, and it served to point just how pointless the console itself is. Remember, this is a brand-new console that is priced somewhere between $299 – $399 that is showing off a bunch of video games that look like they can run on your phone or tablet.
Gaming consoles of specific beats and they always lose money for several years. They make money on the software, meaning that every console needs a killer app that helps to drive console sales. The Intellivision Amico gameplay trailer shows nothing along those lines. In fact, there is nothing on display that can’t be done on existing consoles.
Maybe I’m in the minority but nostalgia can only go so far. Sure, I came around after the Intellivision but I don’t have a $300 nostalgia boner for something like this. Yes, some of the game looks interesting but not $300 interesting. Everything in the above trailer fee like it could easily fit on one of those PS3/Xbox 360 compilation discs.
I know I’m an advocate for keeping things simple, but there is a point to that simplicity. In fact, I think a lot of these titles look fun only that they can work on any current console. When I can open up the Apple App Store and find all these games (or very similar clones) for free or only a couple of bucks you might have a problem. And I can’t even see any game that would play better with the new fancy controller
I’m not sure who this console is aimed for, especially when something like the EverCade exists, but I suppose that even boomers need a console to play for a few minutes before letting it gather dust under your TV.
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