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@Arcadia_Official your previous comment sounded more like you had a problem with the AES

@Arcadia_Official do you buy American games?

@Arcadia_Official Snk isn't making or selling this. They licensed it.

@Arcadia_Official Plaion isn't Saudi

@mjparker77 that was all during pre-production, so it shouldn't affect anything. It just means the first production batch will be larger than they initially anticipated.

@CookieByte so can a pregnancy test and an HDMI cable

Calling the Loopy a game console is a really far stretch. It's just a fancy toy.

Didn't he say he was using AI for the coding? Removing AI generated art assets isn't enough, he's going to have to restart the entire project from scratch if he actually wants to ditch AI.

@KingMike it's easy to keep track if you hate the company!

Never buying another Playstation product. They're now on the list with Nestle, Ubisoft, EA, and others.

@tektite_captain you're aware that companies can get into serious trouble if they lie about their sales data, right? Commodore has investors, so falsely reporting on their sales data can result in large fines, lawsuits, and criminal charges for execs (Peri). It doesn't matter if they're not publicly traded, they have angel investors so falsifying this data would be a breach of fiduciary duties.

You're accusing them of a very serious crime because you refuse to accept that anyone in 2026 actually wanted to buy a flip phone or a C64.

Where's that guy from the last thread that claimed they were lying about the number sold and that the company was going to go under? 🤣

Defeats the purpose entirely

Why do every single one of your posts try to drum up drama where there is none? It's an ugly vest, if you don't like it then don't buy it.

@tektite_captain Sure, everything is exactly as you say. All of these sales are imaginary and the company isn't making any money at all. They will have to shut down next month. They also didn't make any money on their last product, it's a wonder they're still in business or had any money to fund R&D of their new product.

@tektite_captain they didn't say anything about sales figures, it's public info on their site (displays which batch you will be part of when ordering, and batch size).

7000 units is really good for a startup that has literally never shipped a phone before, and at this rate the phone will surpass the sales of the Commodore 64 Ultimate which was also a successful product. A few million dollars in revenue is nothing to sneeze at, and if you're going to pretend that's somehow a failure than that would make you the grifter.

@tektite_captain 7000 units sold and it hasn't even been 24 hours yet. That's a few million dollars in revenue.

Between the price being lowered, and the $100 launch discount on the website, this brings it down to $300 which is much more acceptable.

Unless it includes rumble, it's still not perfect

@SecretSeashell most people didn't spend a whole lot of time on the internet before it was in their pocket. You seem to be operating on the assumption that time not spent on a smartphone will instead be spent on another internet connected device, which seems to be the opposite of the point (and likely a sign of addiction).

@breach187 what does nostalgia have to do with anything? Commodore went bankrupt before I was even born and I bought the C64 Ultimate.

@OorWullie it's not that absurd. The price of components has gone up a lot in recent years. Had it released a few years back the price would have likely been around half. This is also running on custom hardware, it's not just some lazy repackaged Chinese junk, so engineering costs need to be considered and not simply the bill of materials.

@Quick_Man what in the hell are you talking about?

@mjparker77 the closest alternatives on the market are around the same price or more expensive.

@N64-ROX digital minimalism was a pretty popular trend just a few years ago, and many people did ditch their smartphones for old flip phones before the signals they rely on got shutdown. Some others decided to keep their smartphone but did various tricks to try and make it less addictive, like installing themes to lock it down to only the bare essentials, or making everything black and white.

Maybe it's not for you (it's not for me either), but to claim that there isn't a market for this is absurd asinine.

@breach187 it's pretty clear that the target audience for this device is people who hopped on the digital minimalism trend a few years back, and that was mostly a zoomer thing.

@gingerbeardman I never claimed to know the details of your life. What I do know is Japanese, and that it's very, extremely obvious when something has been machine translated (whether by AI or not). I responded to a claim you made about your (probably non-existent) friends pretending that they couldn't tell you were using a translator.

@gingerbeardman I'm not

It's not a bad idea as a product and there absolutely is market for it but the price is atrocious.

Personally, if I wanted to give up on smartphones I would probably just get a phone with an e-ink screen since it would still be able to use any apps if I absolutely needed them (which, sometimes you do in this modern world).

@gingerbeardman I'm fluent in Japanese and have been living in Japan for 1/3 of my life. You can absolutely (quite easily) tell if something is machine translated or not (whether by AI or something like DeepL or Google Translate). These tools are nowhere near as good as you believe they are, and as a beginner you have no basis for making any such claims.

And yes, your friends did lie to you. It's called 建前 (tatemae), you will probably learn the word in your Japanese textbook at some point.

There's nothing wrong with making a game inspired by another game, but you need to innovate on the idea enough to make it unique and to truly make it yours, rather than produce a straight 1:1 clone.

@gingerbeardman they're all terrible at translate and your friends lied to you to be nice. Learn a language and you'll quickly find out.

En/Jp bilingual person here:
AI translation is really bad. Like re, really, really, really bad. It's terrible. You shouldn't use it. It's bad.

Please don't ruin games like this.

I highly doubt Sega would outsource the development to a Western company. All of their recent devices (both Mega Drive minis, Game Gear minis, both Astro City minis) were outsourced to Japanese companies. More than likely they would probably outsource it to the same companies who did those.

I'll never forget those leaked internal Sega docs (slideshow from a 1997 company meeting with sales data) that contradicts the "very well documented" story that everyone believes. Sega of America didn't do as well during the 16bit era as Kalinske would like us to think.

I feel like Compute's Gazette deserves a spot on this list. It's a great magazine for anyone interested in retro computing and every month they publish type-in games and programs just like in the old days.

@-wc- are you trying to somehow say that these images of women in bikinis are somehow related to LGBT culture? What a bizarre comment if I've ever seen one.

@Sketcz over here in Japan, most towns have nude statues around town. The one in front of my local city government office features a nude child. I think you were probably right when you speculated that this squeamish mentality around nudity (both sexual and non-sexual) is probably an offshoot of puritanism because it mostly seems to be a Western (and especially American) thing.

@-wc- what does "woke" or "anti-woke" even mean? It's just a cute girl holding a Dreamcast, George. I don't see how this is at all relevant to American politics.

These specifics ads themselves might be fake, but at least it's not far removed from reality. Models dressed like this used to be common at trade shows, and magazine ads were never afraid to spice things up either. Especially here in Japan where gravure shots of various models were (and still are) included together in magazines with all of the latest gaming news or the latest chapter of your favorite manga. It wasn't too long ago that one of the Super Monkey Ball games had DLC levels themed around a certain gravure idols boobs as part of the advertising campaign for the game.

I certainly wouldn't mind gravure idols being used for advertising more consoles.

@damo are you going to buy the AES?

@alliekitsune you bought Nintendo games, how dare you accuse anyone else of being a horrible person when you literally funded the Saudi's!!

Somashekar Is an idiot. That's not a bait and switch, it's exactly what they promised. There's always people like him looking to stir up drama where there is none.

Do people actually buy this crap?

If I wanted to play a game that's like Ninja Gaiden or Shinobi than I would just play Ninja Gaiden or Shinobi. Indie devs should spend more time making original games and less time making knock-offs of popular games.

@Honkshot an ESP32, it's in the photos.

This (expensive) game will literally stop working if OpenAI ever updates their API (which is something that tech companies do often) or if the developer ever cancels his sub and loses his API key (highly likely given the price).