The Intellivion Amico as I understand it, is an attempt by Steven Tyler's less famous cousin to grift on a brand that was a second banana in a third rate race via the means of swooping like a vulture over the ailing founder of a brand that was more interested in preserving the creation than profit.

And it is a disaster. Which is well on the way to becoming non-existent vaporware.

Say, if you were a CEO attempting to launch a new retro styled console in a cutthroat saturated market that'll have your head for looking the wrong way, would you:

Go out of your way to personally belittle a sub 250k Youtube channel and call the persona behind that channel a Gaming Racist?

Threaten to sue a journalist who found a spec sheet somewhere on your own website?

Demand that your software follow a set of arbitrary rules such as "No open/roaming 3d"?

Bury the lead on telling your investors of your third product delay?

Go on a drunken rant, no matter what context? (2:59:00)

Call the Switch a rape console?

(No really)

I could keep going for a while, there's a farm's worth of crap to shovel. But I feel I've made my point: This is not a project being handled professionally, and I'd like to take a stick, and start beating on the dead horse.

Discussion questions: Had you heard of the Amico beforehand? Do you think this is actually going to launch?

Probably gonna launch eventually, it will almost certainly fail.
Gonna be fun to watch, get the popcorn out homies this gonna be wild.

Certainly not a very amicable fellow.

"Gaming Racist"?!?

I'm trying as hard as I can not to generalize here, but how messed up can someone(/a country) get? This seems to be a neverending (screwup) cycle...

Say what you want about "Mr Tesla Musk" but not even he would be stupid enough to directly damage his own personal and the company's image like that. I honestly feel sorry for everyone else on this project for being dragged into the mud by such infantile behavior by the CEO like this. He really should step down since he obviously can't be professional.

Tommy Tallarico - If you're reading this, get professional help before it's too late!

Anyway; I did see the promo trailer few years ago via one of the HW designers, André LaMothe (seems like a really cool guy in contrast), and although the promo video was cool and all, and I thought it was a good idea, I couldn't shake off the lingering thought back in my head saying this will most likely flop if they don't keep it software only as this will mostly/only be of interest for retro-enthusiasts and those old enough to actually have been a part of that era when consoles had their glory days. And I can't imagine it will be cheap enough either to compete with other consoles (or the PC for that matter).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xokUnn1lBGA

That said, I think it will be more successful than that empty and hollow console Nintendo tried to dish out a few years ago... so there's that. But who knows, maybe it will eventually be a success, both with the fans and also be profitable. Time will tell.

I mean, there was that time when he called that diver guy a paedophile because he didn't like Musk's robot idea...

I know. But, that was one time and I think he learned from it. Here the guy seems to just keep going from one place to another...

EDIT: No actually, he wrote "pedo guy in swimsuit" or something. He didn't mean it like that directly or literally anyway, it's just something he said that just popped into his mind. I too sometimes blurp out something once in a while too, but I guess that's just how racy the human brain can be... Besides, the court ruled out any grounds for defaming.

So no, not the same thing.

No, I had never heard of Amico before and I have no clue if it's going to launch or not.

If you mean the Wii-U; while it was considered a commercial failure, it sold 13.56 million as of 2019.

I'm hedging it'll be sub Gizmodo in terms of sold units. (Fewer than 25,000) And that's being optimistic this isn't a pump-and-dump.

Yeah, I do wonder why Amico, except that it rhymes with his last name and Coleco. Which makes me suspect it was supposed to be the Coleco Amico.

If gamer is someone who plays games then

is consolidator someone who plays on a console?

Also, is handyman an adult male who plays games on a handheld device?

Do you think a Ferrari will end up crashing?

I don't think so. I don't think it will end up being like the Retro VGS, I think it will end up like the Ouya.

I did know one of the guys behind the Retro VGS. Long story short, the guy was a con man. Tried tradmarking a nonprofit I was the VP of. He hired a dollar store lawyer. We asked lawyer to read the 503c and state notice of incorporation.

I wasn't talking about the Retro VGS, but if a Ferrari also crashed there, that'd be a spooky coincidence.

No, a handyman is clearly someone who plays with their own hands, a consolidator is someone who makes solid concentrates.

For perusal: Lying to the SEC seems like a different kind of move.