Cotillion

Why does anyone buy from LRG? They have shown time and time again that they don't care about quality or much of anything besides taking advantage of people.
While I appreciate what they may have set out to do, it has since become a garbage company with sleazy practices.

This has to be the sketchiest console 'release' that's ever been.

I just don't see this thing doing well at all.
The price point alone is enough to ward off people looking for a casual retro experience, who ,in my experience, aren't willing to track down and buy all those carts and CDs. These people want a quick and easy device, like the NES/SNES minis.
The lack of FPGA is a turn off to hardcore enthusiasts (which was promised for this thing initially).
Many of the audience who are into using actual physical media are already doing it with the actual hardware.
One the coolest perks of emulation is the homebrew and hacked games, which you can't dump onto this either (it looks like people have to make 'patches' that will work specifically with this machine?)

Just seems like a very niche market of people who already own physical retro games, but no way to play them, somehow haven't gotten into one of the many other options and are also willing to drop $500 over cheaper options.

This still is not the real story. So much of it is conjecture, "I think I was told..." and so on. And then one goes on to say that he didn't think EoN/MGM were involved and that he didn't know if they had to give approval. Well, of course they would. It's their IP.
Most of these reports don't even make sense, especially regarding Nintendos input. Nintendo published a slew of Rare games that went with them to Xbox and they had no say in that. But this one game they have absolute control?
There's a real story here, but we don't and won't know it.

But, please continue the conjecture looking for someone to be mad at.

I've thought this thing had vapourware scam written all over it for a very long time. I still don't believe it isn't or that it will even come close to the lofty promises they've made. I feel sorry for anyone who has money tied up in it.

I don't even see what the appeal is anymore. They decided to forgo FPGA with that hefty price tag and they've delayed so much while the market is getting more and more options for this kind of thing for cheaper and better.

I'll genuinely amazed if this thing ever does actually see the light of day and delivers on the hype.

I still don't think this thing is going to deliver. That it's either going to be complete vapourware and hit more 'unexpected delays' or it will ship and not do what they say it will.

Great read.
Moreso because I grew up during this time (I was 12 when StarFox came out) and reading all this behind the scenes stuff now is pretty cool.

Between KI and KI Gold both, this is probably my most played fighting series.

I know people won't like this, but my only interest in this is waiting for it to bomb hard so Earthworm Jim gets released on other systems.

@KennyBania Meh, it's negligible and certainly not worth almost $300 for a difference I can't even notice in most cases.

@BionicDodo SegaCD loading times are atrocious. I can see why anyone would want to bypass using the drive. But cost-wise, yeah.

But, to me, this kind of thing negates the whole point, when the point is to play original games on their original hardware. This is doing neither. If you're going to play ROMs, you may as well just get an emulator.