Posted October 26, 2018
I was wondering how many of you have heard about the Intellivision Amico and what are your thoughts regarding it?
Firstly, for those who haven't heard of it the Intellivision Amico is a console set to launch on October 10th, 2020. The Amico will range from $150-180(I think the higher end is for a special edition you may get through the website earlier). The Amico is a system that is suppose to be designed entirely around 2D and Tommy Tellarico is one of the head of Intellivision Entertainment and appears to be the brains behind this project.
Here's a few benchmarks for the system...1.Only games E-E10 will be released for this system. 2.The controller.
The other ones less recognizable are they are going to have a quality control system like Nintendo's in the hopes Shovelware won't get through. All the games will be exclusives but Intellilvision itself will be footing the bill for these games development against the royalties you will get. The release schedule will not be multiple games at once but one every 10 days at the beginning. The game costs will be $3-8 at the beginning and $5-10(these last two points were mentioned in an interview by Rerez with Tellarico himself). All of the games are to be downloads unless there's enough demand for a physical version and each of these will be special editions, likely limited print runs too.
All of this being said my personal concerns are the controller which looks like an old Intellivision controller except modernized. These features include a touchscreen and four buttons on the side on the top and bottom. I can't imagine playing platformers or action RPG's as well as fighters with this setup.
Lastly, the ratings. I feel certain genres like RPG's will suffer greatly with this restriction in terms of not being able to write a more compelling story for fear of getting a T rating for being dark at times. Fighters would suffer in terms of the violence even if there's no blood, look at Virtua Fighter and Fighters Megamix.
Anyway, my thoughts are out., please share yours.
Firstly, for those who haven't heard of it the Intellivision Amico is a console set to launch on October 10th, 2020. The Amico will range from $150-180(I think the higher end is for a special edition you may get through the website earlier). The Amico is a system that is suppose to be designed entirely around 2D and Tommy Tellarico is one of the head of Intellivision Entertainment and appears to be the brains behind this project.
Here's a few benchmarks for the system...1.Only games E-E10 will be released for this system. 2.The controller.
The other ones less recognizable are they are going to have a quality control system like Nintendo's in the hopes Shovelware won't get through. All the games will be exclusives but Intellilvision itself will be footing the bill for these games development against the royalties you will get. The release schedule will not be multiple games at once but one every 10 days at the beginning. The game costs will be $3-8 at the beginning and $5-10(these last two points were mentioned in an interview by Rerez with Tellarico himself). All of the games are to be downloads unless there's enough demand for a physical version and each of these will be special editions, likely limited print runs too.
All of this being said my personal concerns are the controller which looks like an old Intellivision controller except modernized. These features include a touchscreen and four buttons on the side on the top and bottom. I can't imagine playing platformers or action RPG's as well as fighters with this setup.
Lastly, the ratings. I feel certain genres like RPG's will suffer greatly with this restriction in terms of not being able to write a more compelling story for fear of getting a T rating for being dark at times. Fighters would suffer in terms of the violence even if there's no blood, look at Virtua Fighter and Fighters Megamix.
Anyway, my thoughts are out., please share yours.
