I totally get and understand your position quite well. Long ago and spottily since I've work in gaming both on the game end, and the media too. I know how screwed over the middleman like yourself gets. You're basically the publics bitch and bitchingpost for other peoples mistakes much like how people say 'fuck these gas prices' and drive off with a tank of gas because they blame the dude making 3 cents a gallon, not the oil company as they're the point of service. But as you said, it's impression. Regardless if they fouled up underestimating price, blew it up more with the design changes(tray/adapter space), or whatever else, they never addressed it in a positive and mature way and still have not. Instead each rep has a different price point, a different fuzzy date of arrival, dumping on emulators (when theirs is just that), sticking consumers and retailers holding the bag on the 'apparent' 40% price increase, and so on. Had they just clammed up, said no price, no date, and just teased it a little more as time went along closing to release and dropped the price bomb maybe a month or two prior to knowing they could ship stuff out as it was already here from China, they'd be looking like saints compared to now.Originally Posted by StoneAgeGamer
Personally I was super interested in it before the drama and price increase, but at this rate I'm taking a back seat on it until I see a lot more action from buyers and then I'll decide if the added $40 is worth my time, or wait for random amazon.com price fixing reductions or a used one on ebay/nintendoage/here. I think the tools it has within have a lot of merit, it's largely attractive to me with a 2 year old running around as I can't finish games with no passwords/saves anymore worth a damn and it would be nice not to dump around with ROMs (as I have this already on my nexus7 with a moga pro.) I'm sorry how you got blasted over this and the SD2SNES, as I also thought at the time (and still kind of do) that the price on that thing is insane compared to the everdrive and power pak, but I get it does handle more and will do more as they roll out firmware upgrades.
Stardust, preaching old news to the choir as I know the feature set. Me calling it a knockoff is due to it being an emulator, likely pulled from an existing source per machine (fceux, snes9xex, kega fusion, etc perhaps?) I know from personally watching it the Retron3 is a hot turd, and instills no confidence in their NES line of product at all. That's why the SupaBoy stunned me how well that thing (v2 that is) actually works so much I bought it. I think the $140 isn't just a for casuals hard pill to chomp down on, but also those on a thinner budget too. I sell my collection bits I've lost interest in to get new stuff, and the few things I still rarely can find to flip as well with games/vintage toys, but for me to have $140+tax lying around isn't that easy, trickier than $100 which I had been holding initially from both Christmas and B'day(march) money and then after all the garbage I used it.
Why is this devolving into a school violence bullying thread? I'm all for it, but that needs to be in the general board.
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