The only thing which drives me to buy a new platform is if it has decent exclusives or does something revolutionary that nothing else can do.
Yes it is impressive the amount of money this project has raised, but my computer can do everything this can do, and much much more. If I want to play a game like I do on a console, I just plug in a controller. If I want to play on a big TV screen, I plug it into a big TV screen.
Yes my computer was expensive, but most gamers would already have one, or at least get one when they get older and richer. It’s good for parents to buy their kids a cheap console, but it concerns me that the vast majority of games will likely be crap. I’m thinking it’ll be like the games market on the apple store.
It does look like a neat little box, and would be handy for emulation, but I do everything legit so it’s of not much use to me. Even if I did decide to wear an eye patch I could do it all on the computer, and most likely better.
F2P I think will cause issues. For existing titles to be ported everything will need to be modified to support this. A timer could be imposed upon games to end it after half an hour, but with an open console I see people hacking this and even hacking the market to the point where they set up a whole other market full of roms and pirated stuff.
It seems to me like a bad idea to try and make money off a console that welcomes hackers and therefore piracy. Unless of course they’ve made their money and will now disappear without a trace 
On top of all of this, I doubt it will play Black Mesa Source.
