Basically $50 is even a waste

Considering the battery connections might not last two hours, probably a wise decision.

i dont like it either but the whole "smart-cube" thing is big among actual cubers. its not really meant for the general population, and definitely not for the people who will compare this to something like a switch.

@@fezzes428 "Not meant for the general population." Understatement of the year.

35,- bucks no more.

Just like with all those kitchen gadget reviews I don't want any of it (especially not for 300 dollars or more, lol), but it's cool to have someone demonstrating it

It is an absolute travesty the (low) number of MJR subscribers there are. Very smart, polite, and informative KZfaqr.

I think the weird stuf finds MJR, and not the other way around.

@@fames4514 - True! Maybe. I don't know how much skulking he does in the periphery of the gaming world. Lol

Dude gets sent this stuff, he doesn’t spend hours online scouring the deep web.

It likely would eventually, but I don't see there being a big enough market to get economies of scale going or for the hardware itself to get cheaper.

it's a novelty. i dont see how it could ever be more than that.

Even if it was cheap as hell and worked flawlessly with zero bugs, it's still going to get boring after an hour. It's just not a very good idea for a product.

Customer base is too small and made even smaller by the price, which will remain high because you have 8 separate computers, 8 separate batteries, 24 separate screens... it's too expensive to produce for a consumer-friendly price, even if there were economies of scale, which there won't be because it's market appeal is too narrow.

I don't see how this has any potential outside of being a novelty.

That makes sense. 👍

disassemble* reassemble*

Interesting, never knew that

24 screens

Yeah, seems like it should've been a one-off cool project/build rather than a commercial product

You know why both PS3 and GameCube failed? Too expensive. This cube is walking the same way

@@solouno2280lol hey the PS3 managed to be the most successful failure ever somehow.

@@solouno2280 Multiple million dollars in sales is a failure?

Even if they improve it, there's no way in hell something this complex is gonna avoid being incredibly fragile. These things are not going to last long.

Yep

Or the engineers behind might be more clever than you and thought of a way to make it well, that's also a possibility 🙂

@@AleksandarIvanov69 This guy was being careful with it and it still broke after only a couple hours! No way you weren't paid to say that nonsense.

@@mattpace1026 wowcube actually posted a drop test video, modules can be placed back on easily if they fall off when dropped

It's already open to developers. I'm a senior software developer with a PhD in comp sci and I took a look at the API for programming this thing as well as some KZfaq videos here that give you an introduction, and the API looks horrible. It's a real mess. I doubt that any third-party is going to support this thing based on that and based on poor sales. I went to the website about two months ago and the "cut the rope" edition was listed at 40% remaining units left. I checked today and it's still at 40% remaining units left. When I try to leave the site now after three visits, it pops up a $50 coupon for one of these things. This was supposed to come out, IIRC, two years ago and was delayed until December of this year. There's no telling if there will be further delays, but if they're desperate enough to offer a coupon on top of everything, you know this device is just not selling well.. I'll be amazed if the company survives 2023. If you want to exercise your kid's brain, get them an actual Rubik's cube and give them access on KZfaq videos on how to solve it. Unlike this trash, a Rubik's cube is a very affordable puzzle in mathematical group theory that will definitely stretch anyone's brain. A 4 cube electronic device (with terrible frame rates) cannot compare to a 26 cube puzzle.

@Christopher Huber Agreed. You may as well just get either a Switch for less that will let you play far more games instead of just half-baked puzzle things. Some parents might buy this for their kids and leave them disappointed.

Exactly. The problem is that whilst this is a pretty cool use of tech, as a puzzle system, it's far too simplistic being only 2x2. So I'm not sure people who are really into puzzles will be that interested.

theres actually an sdk which makes it easy for developers to make games for the device

The programming interface is actually already open, and literally anyone can program stuff for it- even if they don't personally own one already. So it's wide open for more to be added. I got one because I'm both a Rubik's cube fan and trying to learn programming, so I'm possibly going to be making stuff for this. I'm considering making a sort of RPG-like game if I can work with it well enough. Even then, I still like the concept and I'm eager to see what else this thing can do. Even if it becomes a desk ornament for some reason, the decorative aspect (where it can show widgets and similar things) will be nice. Not worth the money alone, but with other games and apps, it's enough for while I'm not using it as actively. I won't say it's for everyone, but it's certainly interesting. And if you want to program for it but not buy one yourself, then that's a valid option too.

I look forward to picking one of these up on clearance for about $50 so it can sit on my shelf next to my Ouya

@@adamt1415 LOL I'll keep an eye on eBay next year for someone looking to recoup $50 of their poorly spent money. For that price, it might be almost worth it.

The *Optimus Maximus* from Art Lebedev. Amazing keyboard, fully customizable for every game, but too expensive for it to sell well enough. $1600 is a bit too steep.

@@HelloSwiftful I knew it was pricey but not that bad I thought it was like 500-600 dollars. YIKES. BUT then again, at that time, no one was really doing something like that, and the tech wasn't really there either.

If Apple releases something like this, everyone will say it's the biggest innovation ever.

@@sali-ali They would line up around the block to buy the new Apple iCube. Apple is a cult.

Very true!

At this price, why the heck would someone buy this over a Steam Deck?

@@Radwar99 Novelty, only if you have cash to spare.

@@Radwar99 or a case of beer... or 100

This isn't innovation, it's a smartphone with extra steps. These things need to bomb, because if they don't it's gonna tell other companies to make everything needlessly complicated.

If i was rich, this would be an interesting little novelty to put on my desk. But I'm not, so... maybe 20 years from now when the cost of electronics is different. Adjust for inflation. Until then there's just too much else i need $300+ dollars for, gotta prioritize.

@@derealized797 It would only get more expensive, becoming a collectors item.

@@Bwalston910 that really depends. It's hard to say what will become a collectors item... actually I've been thinking about this too lately. I grew up in the 80s and 90s, so i had a lot of things i wish that i hung onto. I had star wars and ninja turtles everything, NES SNES, stacks of PSX to PS3 and original xbox games. I ended up moving a lot and gave certain things up because at the time it wasn't that expensive. Thought I'd just replace it later. A little time became a lot of time went by and now... look online and games i never thought are going for like $300. If i just kept it, i had a LOT.

name checks out

...until the battery unplugs in one of your cubes. 😂

This dude does those video game / metal mash-up shirts: draculabyte.com

the price comes from all the small screens in it, such high res small screens are expensive and not even close to be compare to cheap small screens for arduinus ( which rock super low res)

Sale my ass, if they can't recuperate the costs, they're going bankrupt

@@cloudboysmusic5223 Which they probably just barely will, because the spoiled hipsters this is made for will eat this right up.

@@mattpace1026 the gameboy with a crane proves stupid shit like this will recoup it's loses.

@@metroided34 I'm somehow both surprised and not surprised there were people who wasted their money on that junk.

You can already go online, download a development environment for your computer, and develop for this thing. It has a terrible API. There are some KZfaq videos on programming it if you look around. Seems like a miserable experience and I suspect no third-party will care or do anything.

Somehow, I doubt this is made for normal people who actually have budget concerns.

@@mattpace1026 who is this even made for?

@@metroided34 Spoiled hipsters is my guess.

Sifteo cubes were the inspiration for our cube. However, the developers are completely different. WOWCube® Entertainment System is the product of Cubios, Inc.

@@WOWCube Oh that's cool. I really like the WOWcubes but am going to wait for them to hit the $200 range before I pick them up.

I just noticed you've been subscribed to me for 11 YEARS!!! Dang... Thank you so much 😍

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Thank you for the nice words ☺

Why you don’t want to spend $300?

Can you imagine trying to twist and tilt your way through Doom?! That would be HILARIOUS 😂

Sounds like a good idea buddy gl you can do it and sell to vr chat

Hey, that's actually not bad thinking. Putting this into VR solves the price issue completely, it solves the problem of the computers glitching completely, no charging, etcetera. The biggest downside I see is that you lose the tactile feel of actually holding and turning the cube, which is a definitely a big con, but all the pros might out-weigh that. I'd never buy this $300 cube in a million years, but if it was a puzzle app in VR that only cost a couple bucks, I might try it out. (Plus in VR you're not limited to a 2x2 cube. You could have a regular 3x3 cube, or even crazy 100x100 cubes. Puzzle cube fans would go crazy for that feature alone.) I say go for it 👍🏼

I would try that LOL

Yes! That was what I was thinking of 😂

If you'e talking about the Rubik's cube, this thing has no similarity to it except that they're both cubes. Someone who actually knows how to solve a Rubik's cube would find this pathetically easy and useless.

@@vorpal22 You sound like a moron. Cubers is EXACTLY who this is for. And saying it has no similarities to the Rubik's cube is such an un-informed thing to say. Cubers will usually have a couple dozen cubes of all sorts of configurations and shapes and scales. A dedicated cuber would more than happily give the $300 for this thing. It IS a bit much for how little it provides, but it's still the perfect little device a cuber would cherish in their collection. The 2x2x2 is a cubing classic, and it is the best option for a device like this. This thing will sell well, in spite of it's price because of the very people you seem to think would find it "pathetically easy and useless" BTW, Rubik is literally one of the lowest quality brands for cubing that isn't just a knock-off.

@@frogfox4287 I may sound like a moron to you, but this is a glorified pocket cube with an incredibly slow frame rate and a very poorly thought out programming language. Yes, I am well aware that this could be used as a 2x2x2 Rubik's Cube, of which any configuration can be solved in three moves. People who are serious about cubing are not going to pay $500 for a digital 2x2x2 pocket cube. I also know that people who are serious about cubing often have many three dimensional regular polygonal puzzles. There are also others: my PhD supervisor had a couple dozen variants, but they are usually more complex that the Rubik's Cube, and not less complex, and I emailed him about this trash and we had a good laugh over it. LOL you are the idiot if you think a dedicated cuber would pay $300 (and that is not the price that they are planning on selling it for) for this digital trash. You can buy a 2x2x2 cube for around $5. This thing is going to crash and burn because the sales have been abysmal so far by admission of their own website (and the release keeps getting delayed). No third party manufacturer will make software for this when they could focus instead on a massive market, like smart phones or the Switch. I'm referring to Rubik's Cube specifically because that is what people know. It's like saying Kleenex instead of facial tissue, Benadryl instead of diphenhydramine, Tylenol instead of acetaminophen / paracetamol, etc. When I go to the store, I don't buy the well-known name brand because it usually isn't the best quality and you pay a huge markup for the name but otherwise people don't recognize it. Specifically I was addressing the majority of ignorant comments that specifically compared this to a "Rubik's Cube," but that seems to have eluded you. Thanks for the laugh, dude. I have a PhD in math / computer science, so I understand the math behind cubing to a reasonable degree in theory. I don't enjoy cubing personally but I love abstract algebra. It's like how I long ago stopped playing Sudoku because the mathematical theory of Sudoku is far more interesting than writing numbers in a latin square of order 9 with added restrictions. I also know that this will be a programmer's nightmare based on the videos here on KZfaq and on the API pages for the programming libraries for this. I'd be willing to make a serious wager that - provided it is released in December 2022 this time - by December 2023, this will be landfill waste. Based on the reviews I've seen, it's the "digital puzzle playing" equivalent of having a pet gerbil: it's fun for an hour or two, and then you wonder why you made a horrible mistake and should have bought something else instead.

also by lack of fun.... i cant imagine these little puzzle games could entertain me more than maybe about 10 minutes lol

this is objectively not amazing

I think its pretty stupid. Like really stupid

Are you talking about the Hyperkin RetroN Sq? Yep! They updated the GBA support 👍

@@MetalJesusRocks yes thats the one! I couldn't remember the name of it That's cool to hear they updated it! It would be so cool to play any Gameboy game on TV! 😊 And it's cheaper than the Retron 5 so I might give it a shot! Thanks my man! 😊

I got this feeling too, it's something you might play with for a little bit, put it back in the box and forget about it. Just way too expensive for how little it actually does. It's like a thing you'd buy if you have too much money or just have to buy everything new to fill that empty void in your soul. I have to give it to the developer that it was a pretty neat idea but probably too complex(hence the price) for its own good.

The fact one of the initial offerings is a more complicated version of a lame app from a decade ago tells me everything I need to know.

Yep!! I remember that creepy dude! 😂

It’s amazing the crap people create thinking it will be big

Zelda 2 is my favorite Zelda. When I was a kid I used to think it was impossible, but after figuring out a couple tips, I found it much easier. Now I can beat it without leveling up my life and on another file, I made it to the firebird with a level one sword.

@@thomasrevere7916 I know. When I played it with my kids back in the 80's I think, we tbought it was impossible too. Sometimes they would start crying when Ganon started laughing :-)

@@robinbrowne5419 That's hilarious.

@@thomasrevere7916 :-)

The company would probably go bust after a month.

@@degenerate8228 I completely agree in its current situation. I'm just wondering what the numbers would be. If they could get the unit price down to $150, then they'd probably sell at least 50 million units. That may be tempting enough for Mattel, Sony, or Microsoft to pick the company's corpse at the end and put real money behind a mostly already completed product.