I think 2 things, either they are bleeding money at this point, or they simply want to get as much cash as possible to pay themselves a big check before declaring bankruptcy.

@@toyvania who pat and Ian or intellivision?

“Are you surprised at all?” Nope.

I think asking for money as this point is unquestionably scandalous. Making video game console is obviously not cheap and trying to do it on nothing more than donations and grants is absurd. I think he is stringing people along and he should just give back as much money as possible.

Tommy called the Fundable stuff "twisted misinformation".

Come on, champ - let's get Tom a Jumbo Jack!

Too busy renting a million dollar a month office and doing a "cribs" tour

THEY GOT OVER SIX *T H O U S A N D* PRE-ORDERS, hater! Literally thousands! You gaming racist!

@@EmeraldLavigne 😂🤣😅😆

It's christmas!

Purchase Orders have an expiration/deliver by date. They expect the merchandise on shelves by given target dates. The most valuable thing at Walmart is shelf space. If you can’t deliver your product to fill it they will find someone who can.

Tommy will sue Walmart for not sending a PO… probably.

@@WillyWooly Like he did The Ellen Show?

Like everything else, Tommy probably has his own definition of "pre-orders" and "purchase orders". There is no way that IF (by some miracle) Tommy could produce hundreds of thousands of machines that Walmart, Amazon, etc. will write him a check for millions of dollars before selling any of them. Usually the supplier gives the retailer X number of units and only once they sell does the supplier get any money (next business quarter). Anything the retailer doesn't sell, they don't pay for and they return to the supplier. But that's for established products- which the Amico isn't. In this situation, I bet the deal is more like "Walmart has the OPTION to buy 20,000 units at $150 that they can retail for $250". If Walmart never exercises that option, the Amico doesn't get any shelf space. Then Tommy is stuck with an office/garage full of unsold Amicos that he can spend all day signing to try to convert to "Special Editions" to flip on eBay. Heck, he'll probably try to have them Wata graded so he can sell them "Now with NFTs! Ooooh!" at Heritage Auctions.

@@MrTBoneSF Just 6000 preorders over 2 years is pretty sad sack.

And that's when you would tell your boss it's 90% complete. Now consider how a clueless, non-technical person like Tommy would inflate that number when 1) They have ZERO concept of how anything related to hardware and software is done. 2) They are desperate to get as much money as quick as possible in order to keep their failing meal ticket going.

Always pull a Scotty with your estimates; pad them out not only for the unforeseen contingency, but in case someone throws an axe at that number.

​@@XanthinZarda Pad estimates, sure. It usually ends up being more still. ;) Because if you pad too much, some manager will object and try to hit cost...

I thought they bragged their margins were very high? That it was $150 profit on $50 worth of 2013 hardware? Unless you mean margins for any retailers that would agree to stock this garbage?

@Lassi Kinnunen 81 as per the recent information provided by the Geek Getaway... they missed the boat on getting the cost down low (i.e. $150) and now its shot up in price by an extra $50 - 100 dollars. So that margin went from decent to nothing by delaying it....

@@teletrong1 the margins that Intellivision were going to have at the start was 40%... now it's closer to %15.... so by the time you take away the retail cut and any sort of marketing... they most likely will lose money per each one sold.

Tommy's gonna have matching silver bracelets by the end is my wager.

"The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time." ~ the 90-90 rule, proven time and time again

It's definitely not a linear scale. It's more asymptotic, so the closer you get to 100% the more time it takes.

@@MrTBoneSF seems like nobody ever accounts for enough time for things like bugfixing, load testing, security testing, etc etc etc.

Oh, but this isn't just software. It's custom hardware. _Custom drivers._ Now, I don't know if you've ever had to write driver firmware, especially once which has to comply to about a billion legal requirements. (Wireless communications.) But I imagine along with the promises Tommy thought up, there's either an engineer whistling Dixie because it's a free paycheck, or pulling out their hair because that's a seriously tall order.

The hardware is now unsupported beyond a certain older version of Android so it likely has many security holes that would otherwise have been patched.

But! You also have to realize they're having to write custom drivers for their custom controllers while still being compliant with all those pesky wireless requirements.

Reminds me of Mike Kennedy and the Coleco Chameleon (formerly the RetroVGS) "I already have the molds for the shells! That's the hard part! The stuff that goes inside is trivial, as is the software! We're practically done already!". I mean, if you're just going to stick a SNES Jr. in that shell, and call it a day, then sure.

It doesn't really matter at this point, both halves of what would have been Atari are long dead now.

How's that going? Can we get an update?

Was thinking the same thing. At this point the Amico should just become a Chinese knock of the mini systems.

@@JohnSmith-yd5wq yeah and i hate to say it but Soulja Boy actually released a couople of his consoles for people to review

"Hey, Soulja- can I call you 'Boy' for short?- I have an opportunity for you. I got this NFT game console (you've heard those words before, right?) that you can have for $10 million. It's worth at least $25 million to the market. Just look at these focus group numbers! I was going to let Steven Tyler- he's my cousin, have I mentioned that in the last two minutes?- buy it but I'd thought I'd let you have first crack at it. Heck, I'll even throw in a Guinness World Record to go with it. Sounds tight, right? But I only take cash or Bitcoin. Don't want to pay that $10 fee for checks from a different bank."

It is a money funneling scam at this point.

I hope the people that run the scam get what they deserve.

Hear Tommy player his cover version of "The Touch".

It'll play a cover of John Cage's 4′33″ on Tommy's personally autographed Air Guitar.

Too bad they snapped themselves before they even launched.

Except Tommy has snapped many times, and each time he does he loses half his pre-orders.

Hey, I liked Playmobil!

Wow...2 systems? Sucker.

@@aaronroberts6787 he saw the light…he’s not a sucker anymore

If they *still* haven't sold out their initial stock (I extremely doubt they've made more after the first run), even at that price, I wonder how many units they actually made, and how much they actually expected to sell? If it had Crash and Spyro trilogy, along with some other titles like Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, I might have already dipped in at original MSRP ($100), 50 FPS or not.

I just need Tommy snapped out of existence, or at a minimum, have him snap out of it and cancel the Amico.

I'd see if you could organize the other admins and staff to get Tattletale Tallirico thrown out the forum before the forum's reputation ends up further south than Space Australia.

I would pick one up for 20

@@superpig5000 I thought so but was not sure

The thing is, there were other consoles that did come out after lots of stops and starts. Examples include the ouya and the atari vcs. Both of those consoles may have flopped megahard but at least they came out However, I never saw the ouya or the atari vcs at a retail store. Make of that what you will.

The Amico isn't even worthy of Big Lots. I have found there some Chinese bootleg anime robot toys that look cool. The Amico deserves the landfill treatment.