RetroN5: Hands on first look

[Drclaw411]

That's big of you to admit your fault. Lots of people would try to blindly defend their position to the bitter end.

Anyway, I'm glad to hear the firmware rumor was false, but that leaves me to wonder about two things:

1. Who would start such a rumor to begin with, and for what purpose? fanboys being butthurt over the possibility of *gasp* an emulation machine that may potentially render their beloved original hardware obsolete?
2. Even if there was a firmware issue that would cause a delay, what on earth would lead anyone to assume that means the whole thing is vaporware?

I originally saw it reported by another member of NintendoAge. Now, I don't know if that guy just made it up or indeed it was told to him as he reported by whatever store clerk that sells Hyperkin merchandise that he was referring to. It was fairly convincing considering the pictures of the stress ball, and that nobody had ever posted pictures of that stressball before (Hyperkin said those stress balls were from last e3 apparently). Either the original poster was lying or the store clerk was. I have no idea why the original poster would be intentionally lying, he has many times defended the R5 in that thread when other people come in to the thread and shit on everybody who has it preordered. He did say that the store worker was apparently not given a demo R5 unit that was promised by Hyperkin, so maybe she was upset that she didn't have a demo unit for her store and decided to spread a rumor about Hyperkin essentially scrapping the project?

As far as why it seemed to point to vaporware, the original post claimed that Hyperkin's official word was that they don't know when or if (if being the key word) they would be able to get the console fixed and ready for release.