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Quote Originally Posted by Gentlegamer View Post
Merry Christmas, DP!

RetroVGS is now... Coleco with a Wii controller?

No that's not what this is.
Coleco is licensing the Retro VGS and is thus financing it so there is no need for a second . indiegogo or kickstarter. The Retro VGS itself is not a Colecovision or anything like that. It's a new console that will play indie games on a physical cartridge based format.
The controller for the system is being provided by Interworks, which has an existing WiiU controller design. The controller for this system will not be a WiiU controller, and probably not look like the one shown in the mock up image. All images of the Retro VGS are 3D mock ups and not anything real.



You're looking at a 3D render model. Not a real prototype of any sort.




Maybe, maybe not. it all depends on what happens. You shouldn't be making any predictions right now. There's too little information to go on. I'm not saying that I'm sold on the Retro VGS but I don't think there's enough concrete information at the moment to be negative.





It would appear Coleco is privately funding the Retro VGS rather than Kennedy forced to try indigogo for a second time. According to the press statement, he thing will be for sale starting in February.....which means that somewhere between the indiegogo campaign failing and now, there must be yet completely unshown, unseen working prototype. That leads me to have hope that this thing might be worth a look afterall.




Again what I said to portnoyd: don't jump to conclusions based on nothing but an announcement. If you're going to be negative, then at least do it when there's something to base that view on. Right now, we know next to nothing other than Coleco is going to be financing and thus branding the Retro VGS.
It seems like you're the one speculating here. The Retro VGS official Facebook page is showing both a Toy Show and a Kickstarter logo over the new "Coleco" VGS photo. I suspect (and I will admit it's speculation, but I feel pretty confident about it) that "Coleco" will not be providing funds and has simply lent their IP (which appears to be just the brand name) and perhaps some existing space that they had reserved at the Toy Show to try and sell this product that doesn't exist. If they book orders, great. If not, they haven't lost much but a bit of time and they probably have some kind of equity interest in whatever company Mike has set up to develop and sell this "product".