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While I never learned Japanese, I grew up watching anime and even playing Japanese games for a short phase. I have what some may call a weeb’s grasp of the language and culture (I’m less annoying about it these days). So while I don’t fully know enough to fully grasp a story without translation, I’ve picked up a few things.
Whenever I do notice a discrepancy between the audio and the subtitles, it annoys me. Whenever I happen to catch a cultural joke that isn’t translated properly, it annoys me. I know nothing about this game, but if the machine translation is missing nuances and cultural jokes, that sounds like it would annoy me.
I would much rather rather have a team of true fans do the translation without the use of AI so we can get all the little things right.

I’m glad to see this didn’t just disappear quietly into the night. At least not yet.

Cheeky little mouse cursor in the article cover photo.
(Delete this comment if it’s corrected)

The visual style looks much better and more unique than the multitude of copy/paste visual styles of practically every game on display on the PS State of Play.

Yeeeessssss. Play It Loud Again.

Xenogears was one of the best games of the generation and still lives on in my head today as an icon of the era and one of the best JRPGs of all time. It’s a shame it was rushed at the end and never truly had its story continued officially. Although the circumstances lead to Xenosaga and eventually Xenoblade, so I can’t say it’s all bad.

But this article highlights one aspect of censorship that is really frustrating. Due to the overtly Judeo-Christian religious overtones and the extreme sensitivity to such topics in the west, those of us who aren’t believers or practice a different religion are forced to deal with chilled speech.

The Vita hardware itself wasn’t the failing point of the console. It was arguably the best part of it. Copying that homework is fine to me, as long as they don’t also copy the proprietary memory card part. (Also I never cared for the rear touchpad, so I wouldn’t miss that either)

If it can emulate up to PS2 and Vita games without issue, and there are no weird failings of the hardware, then this may be a purchase for me.

Edit to the Update: I’m no longer confident with this product’s capabilities.

Oh! This is right up my alley. Time to get on the notification list.

The only uses I can see for having a screen on the controller are for Wii U emulation (which it doesn’t sound like this will be useful for) and Dreamcast VMU integration emulation (which is probably possible, but unlikely).

I think something to keep in mind here is that the 2DS was A product, not THE product. 2DS opened up the doors for a greater number of customers, but many 3DS customers would not also be 2DS customers. Having the option is important, even if the 2DS was a success.

One thing you said that I feel needs repeating over and over again whenever there are calls to make the next Nintendo console basically an N-branded PlayStation is that line: “Nintendo itself is the platform, not the hardware.”
People don’t buy Nintendo to play the latest technological hardware and software breakthroughs. People buy Nintendo to play Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon (as well as Big N’s other franchises).

This looks like it was designed by AI.

I’m interested in how this performs. Having a folding screen would be cool for both dual screen emulation as well as seamless 4:3 content.

I still love my New 3DS XL. I just kinda wish I could get better screens in there and maybe a little upscaling. Also more official replacement parts.

@RetroGames I agree. I think demand would be low, however. Still… it would be nice to have some officially licensed repros.

Someone should go let Matt McMuscles know about this.

I think Rerez already proved that it’s not 100% perfect in their recent video as they break down how one game in particular has a timing based title screen that doesn’t align perfectly with the original hardware.
Also worth considering, old authentic hardware itself may have slowed down or sped up minutely similar to how SNES consoles have over the years.
But it’s so close that it’s basically imperceptible without a side by side as this person has even admitted. So they’re basically making a big stink over nothing.

The only people this is going to affect are speedrunners who won’t be able to use the analogue 3d in place of original hardware to submit runs.

Ooh this is an exciting part of lost media and my childhood.

I haven’t bought anything from them in a number of years, but I still love the work that they do. This is a real shame.

From a consumer aspect, I think their biggest problem is that most customers only have room in their homes for one, maybe two arcade machines (not counting collectors). That kind of fits them in the large appliance space which means they need a constant influx of new customers, or planned obsolescence. Unfortunately, the home arcade space is a niche market so it’s unlikely they’d see a continuous flux of new customers, especially when the prime demographic is older millennials and above.

I think what would have helped them would be to sell various styled cabinets and the actual arcade game with control deck separately. Something of a hybrid between arcade cabinet and home console. Want to play a different game? You don’t need a whole new cabinet taking up more of your limited living space. Just undock the control deck and dock in the new one. Blam, new arcade. If you don’t like your cabinet design, you can always buy a different one and your existing control decks would still work (in theory).

They could even go the extra mile and give their detachable control decks an HDMI out so you can plug them in to a television like those ∞-in-1 consoles.

This seems like it’s too good to be true. It really feels like an overpromised Kickstarter pitch that will ultimately fail to deliver on those promises and screws around with backers for years before ultimately, begrudgingly putting out a slapped together shoddy product that falls short of a good experience.

But only time will tell for sure. I know the Ryzen AI Max APU/NPUs (whichever they are categorized as) are supposed to be almost magical, but I’d still be wary of backing this one myself.

It looks like a Toughbook in style.

Yes! Yes! Bring back the Play it Loud marketing. I love to see it.

@MARl0 I think I agree with you.

Fake trailers have been a thing since video streaming on the internet. Although, IP protection has been increasing in recent years as well. I could see this case going either way.

I wonder if the quality and success of the Analogue 3D had anything to do with this. Harder to put out an inferior (for the sake of argument, there’s no basis for this claim) product when there’s a good example for everyone to point to.

Hope they’re watching out for SEGA-sponsored police raids.

This looks gorgeous and well made.

He’s not wrong. It’s already happening.
AI generated websites taking advantage of SEO to generate clicks and ad revenue just filling in whatever information it wants to, then AI search summaries like Gemini take these things at face value and repeat it confidently incorrectly. Users don’t verify the information because when you’re searching for a quick answer, you’re not looking to put in the same effort as writing a thesis.

How many ‘users’ out there on social media sites are just bots or AI talking to each other? I’m not suggesting we’re in the dead Internet theory, but we are watching it happen right now.

The Internet is one of the great wonders of the world. It brought the age of global information to the world. Who would have thought flooding every corner of it with the firehose of falsehoods would be a good idea?

I would 100% buy this if N64 cartridges were still in production. As it stands, I no longer have any of my old N64 games, so my interest in this product is merely one of nostalgic excitement. I’m glad this exists and is as good as it is.

It’s really hard to tell what has been changed. Perhaps a slower showcase would have been better than a quick-transition action-packed trailer.

I love this. The Dreamcast was highly underrated and I love to see it continue to receive support this far into the future.

The mechanic of hitting rupees and hearts with your weapon to pick them up is from the original CD-i games. While I commend the port maker’s commitment to the demake, this mechanic was unnecessary to carry over.

I admire the dream, but let’s see if reality is as kind.

It’s a little hard to win when your biggest competitor keeps magicking new sales numbers out of nowhere every time you get close.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant Never let a little failure get in the way of a good grift or you’ll never become president.

I’ll be interested if they’re going to do anything unique with the software side of things, or if it’s going to be just yet another ‘GAMER!’ Android skin.
Hardware hasn’t excited me on smartphones for several years now.

@Damo Procedural generation has its limitations. Working alongside generative AI could, theoretically, make it better. That’s what I was trying to get at with my comment.

I don’t support this use of AI, but I also think people are extremely negatively reactive to AI as a whole, even in cases where it’s actually useful and makes sense.
The horror game genre is one place where it could be a good use case for generative AI. One of the biggest issues with horror games is once you’ve identified the mechanics behind everything, the game becomes much less scary. This is something that AI can solve through randomly generated events and unique spooks; things that you can’t just point to the underlying game logic to demystify it. It seems specially suited for games that rely on randomized and tile-based events, like the Diablo series for example.
But I definitely don’t support it taking the place of skilled human labor, and especially not art.

I mean if you’re completely redesigning the game from the ground up and even changing the story, then I guess you don’t really need the original design documents or reference materials. It’d be different if they were doing a remaster, but the remake trilogy isn’t a remaster.

The design and placement of the buttons below the screen remind me a lot of the original 3DS. I didn’t care much for that design, and I think the design here feels antiquated, but not necessarily bad.

Honestly, if there wasn’t a disclaimer that AI was used, every single person should be entitled to a refund.

@Zeebor15 Then I am dumb and misread. My bad.

@Zeebor15 “Nintendo didn’t make a Genesis controller.”

Check again?
https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/sega-genesis-control-pad-114295/

(Pedantic, I know.)

I misread “brought that rivalry to an end” in the trailer for “bought that rivalry to an end” which is actually more fitting.

One point of note, and this is from someone who has no nostalgia glasses for the Intellivision, is that the controller overlays are going to be a huge nuisance. Perhaps it would be better to have a cheap e-ink screen behind the inputs that could change to the appropriate game overlay. Something like that would probably raise the costs and thus price of the console quite a bit though, making it potentially infeasible.

Lastly, this is an unholy union. It would be like if Nintendo released a new Genesis console.

“This isn't the first time that EGGCONSOLE has run into trouble for the unauthorized use of someone else's software without permission.”

One more and they can redeem their punchcard for a free coffee (which may or may not be stolen).

@WhiteUmbrella
Thanks for that info. Just wanted to add that I finally received my email for this today. IIRC I think I jumped aboard a bit late, so the delay in receiving the email likely correlates to the order ‘line’.

This tickles the hardware enthusiast in me, but I’ve never been attached to the Atari brand or games. The emulation bonus is pretty cool, but probably not enough to justify it l when there are a multitude of better portable emulation devices.
It does LOOK really cool though.
I suppose at a glance, without having the hardware in my hands, the most annoying element to this is how they have the Atari branding in the UI right below the Atari branding on the hardware.

@WhiteUmbrella Same here. I put the $5 down on the Superdock preorder and never received a follow-up email after my order confirmation. I’m assuming they’ll send purchase links out once it’s closer to shipping.

If they want to.

Watch out, Italian Museum… SEGA is probably already working with local authorities to illegally raid and steal your property.

Now that the litigious comment seal has been broken…

I can’t wait to play this ga-aaand it’s gone.
(Jk, but maybe true by the time you’re reading this)