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>But we’ve seen products like this before — the NVIDIA Shield, for one. Pretty cool piece of tech, but didn’t exactly start a revolution.

People forget that these devices without marketing and consistency they won't go far.

Nintendo, Sony, even MS that came later to the party have hundreds (if not thousands) of millions poured to build their brands, over decades... Sega knew how to play this game and still didn't manage to hang on...

They are already taking the crops of nostalgia, that's for how long they have been around. Leveraging these devices base on hardware it's nothing in the great scheme of things.



> Sega knew how to play this game and still didn't manage to hang on...

I see what you did there :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang-On


Honestly wasn't with that intent, but thank you for point this out - won't forget it and will use it in the future!


> People forget that these devices without marketing and consistency they won't go far.

But seeing Valve's track record, marketing isn't their strong point too.




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