Serena Nelson writes: "It was bound to happen. The Indiegogo campaign for the new console Retro VGS is being canceled."
Marcus Estrada writes: "Cliqist takes a look at the sordid history of the Coleco Chameleon, otherwise known as the Retro VGS video game console from Mike Kennedy."
Even if this thing was never a scam, it's amazing that people got excited for it at all. It was pointless from day one.
Marcus Estrada writes: "As you may have heard, the Retro VGS crowdfunding campaign has been canceled due to totally stalling out at just under 150 backers. Those backers were apparently immensely into the project as they managed to raise over $40,000 with such a small group. The question that some are now asking is why didn’t this project make it? Why was a certified retro enthusiast console unable to attain a goal of $1,950,000 when something like the Ouya managed $8+ million with just a fuzzy idea?"
I think it was a misunderstanding as to what this unit was and what it could actually do. Had it been a console that played retro games via multiple cart ports along with the ability to play newly programed game carts I believe it would have done a lot better.
And yet, those already exist. So, I am not sure what I would be getting here since I have all my old console games and can just plug them into one my Super Retro Trio.
Many similar devices are found in used games stores.
oh I don't disagree, I totally understand the Retron line also exists which does the same things.
I think people were expecting something else to begin with and the final product was nothing like the vision.
Maybe it's because of the Ouya failing that many were hesitant to also back another crowd funded console.
I think that's part of it. The other could be because it didn't make as many lofty promises. I remember people saying the Ouya had "infinite processing power" and could run Skyrim and BF3 on Ultra.
How is this failing not evident from the start? Your talking about a cartridge based console something that hasn't seen the light of day in yrs and for a good reason it's expensive to produce silicone chips. Anyone who's followed gaming since the days of Atari know this. it was the biggest problem of its day. How do you bring back something like that against the convenience of digital content and blue ray disk? You made a retro game system that wanted to go way too retro. Iam sure backers had to have asked who's going to manufacture all these cartridges what stores will risk shelf space for all these thousands of indie games who's going to run quality control etc etc. it was stupid from the start. Not to mention a retro system far to focused on indie games where the vast majority of those games suck one mine craft in a hundred. And you can't rely on classic retro games from new geo, sega and capcom when they already have other more viable outlets for their games. Ouja made more money more quickly because it was vastly more versatile and was really promising in concept but alas the execution was a complete failure. Hopefully lesson learned by all involved.
I agree, not to mention the fact that more than likely most of the games for this system would have been available on much more popular platforms like WiiU, PS4, X1 and Steam. Making buying the actual cartridge not only pointless but pretty much for a small select group of nostalgic gamers.
I personally would have loved to of seen this take off just to see another avenue for independent developers to sell their games on.
@GrimDragon wait a minute, so what your saying is that this was really just an electronic Ouija Board, that played recycled ET atari cartridges, and it died because of a failed execution? (Electric Chair)
You have to believe in yourself and your project if you´re to release a cartridge based game console in the year 2015 (soon 2016). However, that just happens to be the case with the Retro VGS console (which aims to collect 1.95 million dollars on indiegogo). So this is my (Robin Ek, The Gaming Ground) take on the console as a whole (price, feature, games ect.).
