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Offline SpektroTopic starter

A1222 game console poll
« on: February 23, 2019, 05:46:19 AM »
There has been many PowerPC powered game consoles, some very popular and others not so much: Pippin, M2, GameCube, Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 3, and Wii U. Should AmigaOne A1222 be released as a game console? Would it have a chance? What do you think?
 

Offline SpektroTopic starter

Re: A1222 game console poll
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2019, 06:25:15 AM »
A1222 is not superior game hardware, as BozzerBigD noted. However, games are more than technical demos showing off the hardware capabilities.

In my opinion, to gain a foothold in the game console markets, the A1222 console should be affordable, the game development kit must be really good (containing easy to use prototyping, optimising, and debugging tools, various game engines and game creation systems for the beginners) and it must exist for Linux, macOS or Windows too, a set of quality game ports should be bundled with the console, and you have to lure independent game developers to create games for the platform. You also need a game store where you can download free games and buy new ones for the console.

I think it's critical that the game developers come from outside the Amiga community and that they are provided excellent development tools. Otherwise there won't be enough quality games to sell and the console effort will fail.