Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft – these are the three companies that rule the entire console market. But you must admit, the choice is very small. So new companies come with their own ideas, trying to break through and grab their “Piece of the Money Pie”. Since we still haven’t seen at least one worthy competitor – they all failed, but how? Hello everyone, HollowMe is here, let’s figure it out.
I’ll start with the ones that haven’t been released yet, and I’ll end with the most crazy and strange ones. Also, there will be no Chinese Android consoles or laptops with Dandy and Sega emulators on board. Happy reading
I’d like to start with Mad Box, a console from Slightly Mad Studios, who are known for their racing simulators such as Project cars or Need For Speed: Shift. Its futuristic appearance cannot leave a person indifferent, but there is one problem – it will be released not earlier than 2021, and it will be very difficult to fight the war against PlayStatoin 5 and Xbox Series X. Moreover, if you look at all the screens and backlighting, you can understand that the console will definitely be more expensive than its competitors, and the display on the gamepad is a strange solution, because it will eat up charge at a breakneck pace, so you will have to install powerful batteries, which will make them more expensive. Please don’t pay attention to headlines like "Mad Box killed the PlayStation" or anything like that, because most likely it will fail like the rest.
Alienware Concept UFO
Dell, known for its laptops from which the first Xboxes were assembled, presented the “Nintendo Switch Killer” concept at CES 2020; the name of this next “Killer” is Alienware concept ufo. Little is known about her, she can run games from a PC, her side controllers are detachable and can be connected using a charging Grip. Detachable Joi-cones on Switch are needed primarily so that you can play with a friend anywhere and not carry large controllers with you. But on Alienware it will be difficult to play like this – because their shape is not intended for this, and all the buttons are on top, also do not forget that on Switch most games support playing on one stick, Alienware games will be from Steam, and there developers do not worry about such things. Also, apparently, she will be powerful, and he is powerful – it will consume more charge, if they put a more capacious battery, then portability will suffer greatly. Dell didn’t even hint at a date, and what was shown is just a concept, so you shouldn’t really hope for it.
Panic inc has recently started working on games, and published the beautiful adventure game Firewatch, as well as the crazy Untitled Goose Game. On May 22, 2019, their first console called PlayDate was announced. It will have a 2.1-inch monochrome display, 16 MB of memory, a cross pad, two buttons and a price of 150 green. It looks like a Gameboy, but with one feature – a special handle that can be turned, it is used as a control element in some games and to control the interface. There will be 16 games on it (they come with the console), and so far we have been shown only one game – Time Travel Adventure, in which you will need to dodge attacks by rewinding time, and how to rewind time? Of course with this pen. I’ll leave a video of an English-speaking YouTuber playing it (This is not an advertisement). This console is well suited for oldfags (Gleb for sure) and fans of unusual games, I hope it will be successful, Panic will continue to inhabit this niche.
Apple pippin released in the 1990s. It was based on a 66 MHz PowerPC 603e processor and ran a stripped-down version of Mac OS. Apple also added multimedia capabilities to it. Then the PlayStation was raging on the market, which even cost less. Due to the high price of $600, few people bought it.
3DO Interactive Multiplayer
3DO Interactive Multiplayer is a Panasonic https://lowdeposit-casinos.co.uk/review/slottio/ console released in 1993. It sold 2 million copies, but the market was oversaturated with gaming systems and the high price ($600). They stopped supporting it in 1996, and three years of support is very little, which once again proves its failure. Despite some advanced technologies, she did not live.
Nokia N-Gage is the first console phone on the market. It had a lot of good games, but it still couldn’t survive in the market. The fact is that the designers conceived it as a game console, and not as a phone itself, so the speaker was located on the top end, and in order to talk normally, you need to put your ear next to the phone, this was called the “Elephant Ear,” and the Sidetalking meme spread across the Internet. Instead of normally removing the cartridge from a special slot, you had to remove the battery, as in old phones, where you had to take out the SIM card in this way (I still have one), especially since it was sold in retail outlets, together with phones, and not with other consoles, it was more expensive than the GameBoy Advance, so few people took it.
Nvidia Shield and Nvidia Shield Portable
Nvidia has released its "Media Player", with access to Geforce Now, thanks to which you can play. That’s why I added it here. This router-sized console gave access to cloud gaming. It did not enter the console market because Nvidia itself did not understand what it was selling: a console or a media player? The next guest is Nvidia Shield Portable – a rather old portable console, very similar to the Nintendo ds, but without a second screen. It has a touch screen, so you can download an emulator there and play mobile games, but it is weak, so the same PUBG Mobile will look like Another World.
Well, ready for wild thrash? Then meet the magnificent, small, ergonomic, powerful, with a bunch of excellent exclusives – Ouya! A….that’s sarcasm. Released in 2013 by Ouya inc. They appeared on Kickstarter, raising $8 million there. We used Android as the OS, it had 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB of storage and Nvidia Tegra 3. They also promised to update the hardware with every code, and all this will not exceed one hundred dollars. The company was bought by Razer, after which it stopped producing consoles, but supported the online service until 2019. If you now run some game from the Play Market on it, for example: GTA Vice City, then it will lag unbearably, the textures will be soapy, and Ouya, no Ouya will not work.
Gs gamekit – the first Russian console from Tricolor TV. The hardware is weak, at the level of state employees for 3k, you can only play Smesharikov, Russian Hunt, Asphalt and other slag on it. The gamepad is unpleasant, made through a well-known place. The remote control may not work at all. For all this, pay 15,000 minted coins.
That’s all. Wait for new articles from my blog and don’t eat the rain, but I was with you HollowMe, see you soon.
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I don’t really like it at all.get to the bottom of people’s spelling, but there’s something like a title here and it would be nice to do something with it. The options “console market” and “console market” are much better)
A good topic for an article and the information is interesting, but in some places it is impossible to read, the grammar is lame in the text. Read the article out loud – you will understand everything yourself, edit it a little and it will be sweet. Here are examples so as not to be unfounded.
Also, apparently, it will have high power, and if it is high power, then you will either have to install a large battery and kill all portability.
Please don’t pay attention to headlines like "Mad Box killed the PlayStation" or something like that, because most likely Mad Box will fail like the rest.
Yeah. Also, at the same time, Sanyo, Creative and Goldstar showed their consoles. And they also called them 3DO. Apparently we didn’t agree.
The 3DO console developed, suddenly a company called 3DO, whose founder had an idea – we would develop the console and specifications, and outsource production – “we get a percentage of the games, you get a margin from the hardware”. Guess why it didn’t take off.
I didn’t talk much about 3do. this is generally the idea of electronic arts and they issued licenses for the production of consoles, that is, they created ummm… an architecture and system common to different manufacturers and developers. In addition to Panasonic, many companies received a license, even Sony! (all this seems to be)
1. The title highlighted only Mad Box. What about the rest?
2. I think it’s better to take the images out of the “spoilers” and put them before the description, not after.
Thanks for correcting me with the headers. The images were before the description, but I didn’t like it and put them after the description